Using FFmpeg to convert videos to Windows Media Video (WMV) format
© copyright 11.Jun.2010 by Paul Bradley posted under Linux.
I am really getting into screencasting and video production under Linux. This week I created a video which was going to be watched by a Windows only audience via a corporate intranet. Normally, when I render my videos in Kdenlive, I use the Flash option to create an FLV file at a high bitrate. This ensure that when I load the video to YouTube the HD quality is retained.
So I needed to find a simple way to convert the FLV flash video file to the Windows Media Video (WMV) format. FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video, and after a little experimenting, came up with the following command line to convert an input.flv Flash Video File to a Windows Media Video output.wmv file.
The same command can be used to convert other video formats to Windows Media, by substituting input.flv with the filename you wish to convert, e.g. input.avi
ffmpeg -i input.flv -b 1000k -vcodec wmv2 -ar 44100 -ab 56000 -ac 2 -y output.wmv§
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