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Originally Posted by hyc
On Linux most of the current players can play FLV files directly. But sometimes I run across machines with outdated software, then I move the data into some other container. MP4 or MKV usually work.
Code:
ffmpeg -i somefile.flv -vcodec copy -acodec copy somefile.mkv
Takes just a few seconds because it transfers the raw data unchanged, only the file headers are modified. |
ffmpeg does work well for moving from a flv container to a mkv container, but in my experience it doesn't work well for moving to a mp4 container; at least if you want to be able to ff/rew or skip through the resulting output file with any of the many media players I've tried.