Audio - Video Conversion

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There has been a good demand for a reliable Audio - Video conversion system on the web.

With the popularity of You Tube, there has been a significant growth in the number of video hosting sites that are being created for niche audience.

One of the basic needs of such video hosting sites is the need for a tool, which will automatically convert the videos uploaded in various formats (videos taken using their camcorders, webcams, etc) into the standard .flv format, which has become a de-facto for video streaming on the internet.

FFMPEG is one of the few open source software that attempt at providing a solution to this issue. FFMPEG allows the developers to integrate a simple set of functions in their code, so that it can handle the complex task of automatic conversion of various video formats into .flv.

In fact, FFMPEG supports many different source and target formats for both video as well as audio conversion.

One major limitation we have seen with FFMPEG is its inability to convert all video formats all the time (ie. the failure rate of conversion is significant for certain formats.) To overcome this limitation, we have implemented a work around, which will take a two pass approach for all the videos that failed to convert right the first time. This approach provides 95% success rate in the video conversion.

We use FFMPEG for many of our development and hosting solutions and infact also offer FFMPEG conversion services to our clients.

If you have a need for a video conversion software or if you would like to know more about the video conversion utility, please feel free to post here or email us and we will be happy to answer your questions/concerns on this.

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