How can I achieve the best overall FLV quality with FFMPEG?

Question

I\'m looking to accomplish the best quality FLV with the lowest file size. After all, isn\'t that everyone\'s goal? These videos will be streamed if that makes any difference.

Answer 1

I think the best solution to maximize the ratio quality/size is to scrap the "flv" encoding of ffmpeg altogether, and use H.264 instead.

I'm usually using handbrake to convert files to MP4/AAC, and then only use FFMPEG to remux the file into an FLV container.

ffmpeg -i input_file.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -y output_file.flv

There are also a lot of parameters for handbrake, some interesting presets can be found here: http://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/BuiltInPresets