ffmeg is a command-line tool for video encoding which has the ability to encode videos in FLV format (Macromedia plugin for direct-streaming).
First, you need to install ffmpeg with liblame support.
You may grab it as package or compile from sources.
We will compile from sources in this article for more compatibility.
first step : Installing lame get sources at http://lame.sourceforge.net, untar the archive and chdir to unpacked sources directory.
$ ./configure && make && sudo make install
second step : Installing ffmpeg
Getting sources from svn :
$ svn export svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
Change dir to ffmpeg and compile with liblame
$ ./configure --enable-mp3lame && make && sudo make install
Your now setup. You can continue with encoding your first video
$ /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i input.mov -ar 22050 -ab 56 -aspect 4:3 \ -b 200 -r 12 -f flv -s 320x240 -acodec mp3 -ac 1 output.flv
to view the result download a swf FLV player and create a html file :
<html> <head> <title>Flash FLV Player</title> </head> <body> <h3>My First FLV video</h3> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="260" wmode="transparent" data="flvplayer.swf?file=output.flv&autoStart=false"> <param name="movie" value="flvplayer.swf?file=output.flv&autoStart=false" /> <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> </object> </body> </html>