From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 05:55:50 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7BD9D372 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 05:55:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.44.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42EFA1F68 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 05:55:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway.dreamchaser.org. [12.32.36.73]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id s845tcNh039954; Wed, 3 Sep 2014 23:55:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ah@dreamchaser.org) Message-ID: <5407FEDA.1010206@dreamchaser.org> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 23:55:38 -0600 From: Gary Aitken User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: convert for use on youtube (was: convert .mov to .avi?) References: <54073D3E.9080808@dreamchaser.org> <540756C3.1060600@privatdemail.net> In-Reply-To: <540756C3.1060600@privatdemail.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.36.65]); Wed, 03 Sep 2014 23:55:40 -0600 (MDT) Cc: bsdaddict@privatdemail.net, freebsd@edvax.de, rsmith@xs4all.nl X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 05:55:50 -0000 >> Can anyone suggest an easy way to convert a .mov file to .avi? I >> don't have much experience with video and shot some with my camera >> when on a recent trip. My wife uses windoze to burn dvds and the >> app she has access to (windows dvd maker) doesn't seem to support >> .mov files. > I suppose "ffmpeg -i path/video1.mov path/movie2.avi" should do it > for a fast and simple convertion. Thanks all; that and some reading of the ffmpeg man page helped. Now I'm trying to convert to something smallish that will play well on youtube. According to youtube's analysis, my firefox supports "HTMLVideoElement" and "WebM VP8". I've tried converting to .avi, .mp4, and .webm but whenever I try to play them via youtube, I get the garbage about my browser not currently recognizing any of the video formats available. I've tried switching the browser between HTML5 and the default player, but no joy there. The browser successfully plays .mov files previously uploaded, but they are huge and I'm trying to save on bandwidth and storage. I believe the uploaded .mov files were converted by youtube anyway. All of the generated formats play fine through vlc. Hints?