Convert a video to MP4 (H.264/AAC) with ffmpeg

Question

If I don't make a mistake, Safari currently need MP4 (H.264/AAC) video encoded for the HTML5 <video> element.

So I tried to convert a video to this format with ffmpeg. However when I enter the shell command ffmpeg -i video.flv video.mp4, the returned error is :

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 2000.00 (2000/1) -> 29.92 (359/12) Input #0, flv, from 'video.flv':
Duration: 00:05:01.20, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 66 kb/s Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 320x240 [PAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 66 kb/s, 29.92 tbr, 1k tbn, 2k tbc Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 22050 Hz, stereo, s16 Output #0, mp4, to 'video.mp4': Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 320x240 [PAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 29.92 tbc Stream #0.1: Audio: 0x0000, 22050 Hz, stereo, s16, 64 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1 Unsupported codec for output stream #0.1

An AAC codec is required but I'm quite newbie with ubuntu and I dont really now how to fix this problem. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 Karmik Koala (for amd64).

Thank you very much. :)

Answer 1

http://handbrake.fr is a nice high level tool with a lot of useful presets for mp4 for iPod, PS3, ... with both GUI and CLI interfaces for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

It comes with its own dependencies as a single statically linked fat binary so you have all the x264 / aac codecs included.

  $ HandBrakeCLI -Z Universal -i myinputfile.mov -o myoutputfile.mp4

To list all the available presets:

  $ HandBrakeCLI -z