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High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Christopher Rotter on Mar 31, 2009 at 3:18:55 pm

I've spent some time searching for that one treasure program that can create high quality FLV from almost any media file. I've come across two programs one of which I currently have installed which is Riva FLV Player and Video Charge Studio. Now I'm a bit skeptical if either program could produce high quality FLV which is why I've decided to ask here if anyone has any recommendations, or hopefully the treasure program that I may be looking for, that will do it and do it well !



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Re: High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Daniel Low on Apr 2, 2009 at 11:38:19 pm

If you want the best but limit yourself to just FLV then get Flix Pro from On2.

If you don't want to be restricted to just FLV then get Episode from Telestream which will do H.264 flash, amongst many other output formats

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Re: High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Christopher Rotter on Apr 3, 2009 at 2:14:53 am

Episode from Telestream ? Is that just as good as the On2 Flix Pro or it's just more universal ?



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Re: High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Daniel Low on Apr 3, 2009 at 6:52:36 am

It's a much better transcoder as well as being far more 'universal'. Episode is pretty much 'anything in, anything out' Flix is 'Not everything in, only FLV out'

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Re: High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Christopher Rotter on Apr 3, 2009 at 11:36:43 am

You mention it's a better Transcoder but does it still produce high quality like the On2 ?



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Re: High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Daniel Low on Apr 3, 2009 at 1:01:51 pm

It has the potential to produce much higher quality output than Flix. It uses the same On2 code libraries but the rest of the transcoding is of higher quality than Flix (scaling, deinterlacing etc).

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Re: High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Christopher Rotter on Apr 3, 2009 at 11:57:07 pm

Episode cost even more then Flix, the only benefit is as you mentioned you can output to various formats compared to just FLV. I will keep this program in mind but I'm probably going to go the Flix route.



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Re: High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Daniel Low on Apr 4, 2009 at 12:09:09 am

[Christopher Rotter] "the only benefit is as you mentioned you can output to various formats compared to just FLV"

Wrong, it has FAR superior capabilities than Flix.

It's like the difference between Notepad and Word





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Re: High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Christopher Rotter on Apr 4, 2009 at 12:16:41 am

I believe it does, no need to get defensive :) I'm just saying that the price and I'll mostly just be exporting to FLV so I'll stick with that.



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Re: High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Daniel Low on Apr 4, 2009 at 12:27:30 am

Cool, only when you need to deliver something other than FLV (like H.264 Flash - F4V) you'll need to get another product.

Seems silly to me to limit yourself to just one codec, when you could have them all and get much higher quality and better workflow for $200 more!?!.

Like comparing a screwdriver to a swiss army knife...

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Re: High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Christopher Rotter on Apr 4, 2009 at 1:08:43 am

That is true, alright I'll think about it within the next day but episode does open other options for me and with good quality too :)



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Re: High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Frank Manno on Apr 5, 2009 at 3:01:23 am

How does Episode and Flix compare to Pro Coder?

-Frankie



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Re: High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Christopher Rotter on Apr 5, 2009 at 3:20:34 pm

I'm not sure !



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Re: High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Daniel Low on Apr 5, 2009 at 4:15:51 pm

Episode is cross platform and has the best deinterlacing out of the lot as well as better Flash support than ProCoder.

You can compare Flix to either as it only supports VP6.

Procoder was one of the best on Windows until Episode came along.

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Re: High Quality FLV from any media file?
by Christopher Rotter on Apr 5, 2009 at 11:48:17 pm

I'm leaning towards Episode myself so I have a program that I can export to various formats but in excellent quality, that is unless I put garbage in one can only expect garbage out as this is not a recycling to treasure forum :)



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