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  Screencasting Strategies
Subject:   transcoding screencasts
Date:   2005-06-17 12:30:18
From:   nnvsnu
Transcoding MOV or WMV screencasts into Flash SWF files is a two stage process. First generating a Flash Video Format (FLV) file, then adding the FLV to a SWF movie that runs in the Flash player plug-in.


For the first step, the Riva FLV Encoder is a convenient (Windows only) free tool for transcoding existing AVI, MPEG, MOV or WMV files into FLV. (Note: this is basically a GUI wrapper for ffmpeg.)


On Linux (or on Windows from the command line), you can use ffmpeg or MEncoder (which includes ffmpeg).


For including the resulting FLV in a SWF for playback in the Flash player, see Klaus Rechert's excellent tutorial on adding streaming multimedia to SWFs. He also provides Ming patches to enable adding FLVs to SWFs.