I use this WordPress plugin, vipers-video-quicktag, in a couple sites I maintain. I use it to display FLV video. I’ve found if I create .mp4 videos with the H.262 video and AAC audio codecs, it’ll play in the Flash player, as well as on iPhone, iPad and iPod. This is neat, a single video format … Read moreHack to make vipers-video-quicktags detect iPad and use HTML5 Video Tag
Nifty command to take a list of MP4 videos and make a poster JPG for each one: This takes each mp4 video in a directory and creates a .jpg for it. In the ffmpeg command, the -r 1 means 1 frame per second, and the -t 1 means stop after 1 second. The -f image2 … Read moreMake a Poster JPG for each MP4
I have a set of .wmv files, about 12 totaling about 8 hours, that were made with Microsoft Windows Media Encoder in “Capture Screen” mode. This uses a proprietary Microsoft codec called MSS2. It’s optimized for screen capture and does a really good job with compression and displays in high quality on Windows Media Player. … Read moreVideo Encoding for Dummies