FLV to... XBox viewable format

Penguin_Otaku

So I want to play some videos from a thumbdrive (I've seen done before and thought it was pretty neat) but I don't know how to get them from their FLV format to... something that's able to be viewed on the XBox.

I have Adobe Media Encoder, but I wouldn't think that an XBox would read a Quicktime file.

I downloaded the MPEG Streamclip download, but it doesn't support FLV files.

Solutions? Thanks.

Dictator

I don't know exactly what file-types the xbox supports but I'm 95% sure whatever it is SUPER will do your conversions just fine. As far as I can tell it converts from just about everything to just about anything, and I know it works with FLV.

Fake edit: It looks like AVI's work on the XBox so I would just go with that.

Jasconius

You can use ffmpeg, which is a command line utility that does everyyyythiiiiing.

Krikee

TVersity will transcode video on the fly; it's Windows only, but there are apps in the works for easy-to-configure linux setups that do the same thing.

Penguin_Otaku

I guess the fact I'm on a Mac as said above means nothing?

Dog

Penguin_Otaku wrote: »

I guess the fact I'm on a Mac as said above means nothing?

Penguin_Otaku wrote: »

So I want to play some videos from a thumbdrive (I've seen done before and thought it was pretty neat) but I don't know how to get them from their FLV format to... something that's able to be viewed on the XBox.

I have Adobe Media Encoder, but I wouldn't think that an XBox would read a Quicktime file.

I downloaded the MPEG Streamclip download, but it doesn't support FLV files.

Solutions? Thanks.

Where?

Penguin_Otaku

Oops. Well hey I'm on a mac

Jasconius

get macports

get ffmpeg

google for the right command

there's lots of stuff about ffmpeg floating around.

Just Like That

I use Mediacoder for audio conversion, but it is supposed to do video too

http://www.mediacoderhq.com/

Edit: Oops, forgot about the Mac thing, although the site says it might work under OS X?

baudattitude

I run OSX, I use ffmpeg to do video conversions, it will easily do flv to mp4 which will play back on your Xbox 360 and pretty much any other device you're likely to have.

There's even a version that comes with a pretty interface if you're not fond of terminal. I think it's called ffmpegosx, but I'm fond of terminal so I can't say for sure.

Penguin_Otaku

baudattitude wrote: »

I run OSX, I use ffmpeg to do video conversions, it will easily do flv to mp4 which will play back on your Xbox 360 and pretty much any other device you're likely to have.

There's even a version that comes with a pretty interface if you're not fond of terminal. I think it's called ffmpegosx, but I'm fond of terminal so I can't say for sure.

I can't get it to even recognize the FLV files. Cuando the fuck?

Penguin_Otaku

Ok correction. I got to recognize the FLV, but everytime I tell it to encode it takes like 2 seconds and it's done and gives me nothing usable to the directory I tell it to go.

shutz

I've used TVersity to stream transcoded FLVs to my XBox360. One thing that might work even better for you, though, is that the 360 can play .mp4 videos directly, as long as the video is encoded with H264, and the audio is in aac format (stereo only).

On the off-chance that you're trying to watch downloaded Youtube videos, your best bet would be to install the DownloadHelper addon for Firefox, and then re-download the Youtube vids you're trying to watch using that, by making sure you select an mp4 format (fmt=18 for for older HQ videos, fmt=22 for 720p HD videos, and something even higher for the new 1080p format)

If you got your stuff from some other place, then you'll have to re-encode your clips, and again, MP4 is a good choice (the other alternative would be WMV). If you're running Windows, SUPER is the easiest tool to use. On a Mac, ffmpegx is probably the best thing, though I've never used it so I can't be 100% sure (it's based on ffmpeg, which is good, and provides a GUI, which should be easier to use than a console app, unless you're comfortable typing long commands.)

Penguin_Otaku

Also, side question... on my Mac when I delete items from a thumbdrive and move them to the trash, it still says that the drive is full. How do I remedy this?

baudattitude

Penguin_Otaku wrote: »

Also, side question... on my Mac when I delete items from a thumbdrive and move them to the trash, it still says that the drive is full. How do I remedy this?

Empty the trash.

baudattitude

Penguin_Otaku wrote: »

baudattitude wrote: »

I run OSX, I use ffmpeg to do video conversions, it will easily do flv to mp4 which will play back on your Xbox 360 and pretty much any other device you're likely to have.

There's even a version that comes with a pretty interface if you're not fond of terminal. I think it's called ffmpegosx, but I'm fond of terminal so I can't say for sure.

I can't get it to even recognize the FLV files. Cuando the fuck?

I just tested this. "ffmpeg -i miku.flv miku.mp4" was all I needed to do. You might need to tweak it for bitrate, etc, if you don't like the resultant video quality.

Penguin_Otaku

baudattitude wrote: »

Penguin_Otaku wrote: »

baudattitude wrote: »

I run OSX, I use ffmpeg to do video conversions, it will easily do flv to mp4 which will play back on your Xbox 360 and pretty much any other device you're likely to have.

There's even a version that comes with a pretty interface if you're not fond of terminal. I think it's called ffmpegosx, but I'm fond of terminal so I can't say for sure.

I can't get it to even recognize the FLV files. Cuando the fuck?

I just tested this. "ffmpeg -i miku.flv miku.mp4" was all I needed to do. You might need to tweak it for bitrate, etc, if you don't like the resultant video quality.

I'm using the hub-version.