Video Encoder for Youtube/Vimeo
Oftentimes, I’ll finish recording a screen-cap video using FRAPS and then would proceed to upload it onto YouTube or Vimeo. However, the file-size of the raw video might be too huge or Youtube might use a bad video encoder to compress your video.
I’ve been scouring the interwebs, trying to find a simple app that would just allow me to convert my videos to the compression scheme that’s recommended for YouTube and Vimeo. I couldn’t find one that was simple to use so I decide to code my own.
Over the weekend, I made a small app that handles exporting videos to standard-definition and high-definition compression schemes. I designed the app to be simple to use and minimalistic in it’s interface. It simply loads the source video file and exports it out with the settings you choose. This application is basically a GUI wrapper around ffmpeg, which is the true guts of my video converter.
It uses the h.264 encoder (sometimes referred as mp4) to encode the video and AAC (short for advanced audio codec) to encode the audio. The encoder is very efficient in memory while maintaining high quality.
So enjoy. And please let me know if you have any questions or if there is any issues with the software. You can view a sample of an uploaded video that used my video converter here.
Here is a sample video which used my converter.
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Comments ( 5 )
You mentioned using this on Fraps videos, but I tried it on a Fraps (version 3.2.3) vid and the decoder couldn’t handle it. For output all I get is this:
Error while decoding stream #0.0
[fraps @ 0x1236920]This file is encoded with Fraps version 215. This codec can only decode versions <= 5.
Error while decoding stream #0.0
[fraps @ 0x1236920]This file is encoded with Fraps version 106. This codec can only decode versions <= 5.
Error while decoding stream #0.0
[fraps @ 0x1236920]This file is encoded with Fraps version 188. This codec can only decode versions <= 5.
Error while decoding stream #0.0
[fraps @ 0x1236920]This file is encoded with Fraps version 222. This codec can only decode versions <= 5.
Error while decoding stream #0.0
[fraps @ 0x1236920]This file is encoded with Fraps version 82. This codec can only decode versions <= 5.
Error while decoding stream #0.0
[fraps @ 0x1236920]This file is encoded with Fraps version 18. This codec can only decode versions <= 5.
Error while decoding stream #0.0
[fraps @ 0x1236920]This file is encoded with Fraps version 191. This codec can only decode versions <= 5.
Error while decoding stream #0.0Over and over. I tried building ffmpeg from svn to see if that would help, but quickly ran into problems with the script (libfaac and libx264 are not enabled by default). If I get some more time I'll try to build ffmpeg again, because this seems like a very useful tool!
sinoth added these pithy words on
Sep 27, 2010 @
8:09 am
Fixed it, should be working now! Thanks for looking out!
Eddie added these pithy words on
Sep 27, 2010 @
10:39 am
Wladi added these pithy words on Your programm doesen’t work in Windows 7 64-bit. Help!
ARQ added these pithy words on
Nov 02, 2010 @
10:46 am
