How to best convert Flash compatible mp4 files with FFMPEG?

Question

I am trying to convert different files to a flash compatible .mp4 file with ffmpeg, but I can\'t seem to get it to work. Of course the objective is to get the great

Answer 1

Actually you shouldn't be using maxrate, especially not a maxrate of 10000k when you have your bitrate explicitly set to 200k. In fact looking at this even closer I really don't think you understand what most of that stuff is for :)

For starters you're calling the input file output.mp4, plus the output file (which should actually be /dev/null for pass 1) is called yourinfile.avi and you haven't actually set a container format so what you would end up with is an h264 encoded avi file.

Try this for high quality 1080p HD flash compatible h264 encoded MPEG-4 videos, first create a file with the following contents in the same directory as the video you're encoding and name it something like flash-mp4.ffpreset

vcodec=libx264
b=5000k
acodec=libfaac
ab=256k
ac=2
ar=44100
coder=1
flags=+loop+mv4
cmp=+chroma
partitions=+parti8x8+parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8
me_method=umh
subq=8
me_range=16
g=250
keyint_min=25
sc_threshold=40
i_qfactor=0.71
b_strategy=2
qcomp=0.6
qmin=10
qmax=51
qdiff=4
bf=3
refs=4
directpred=3
trellis=1
flags2=+wpred+mixed_refs+dct8x8+fastpskip
wpredp=2
fflags=+rtphint
profile=1

then from the command line:

ffmpeg -y -i sourcefile.avi -fpre ./flash-mp4.ffpreset -f mp4 outputfile.f4v

That should play perfectly with flash 10+