My pre­vi­ous for­ays into craft­ing an auto­matic screen­shot taker were, at the time, very suc­cess­ful. The sys­tem man­aged to pump out usable images in a frac­tion of the time it would have taken me to seek and do them manu­ally; I even exten­ded the script to handle mul­tiple file-inputs which made ‘cap­ping an entire series […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• Anime,
• avisynth,
• bframe,
• hidef,
• highdefinition,
• iframe,
• mpeg,
• mplayer,
• pframe,
• php,
• screenshots,
• scripting

How do you con­vert an arbit­rary video file into a play­able Flash video using freely avail­able pro­grams and meth­ods? After close to an after­noon of search­ing, test­ing and head-scratching, I finally have a whole answer that can be applied ad-hoc to almost any video you can get your hands on.
This “guide” (more anec­dotal than how-to) assumes […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• bitrate,
• ffmpeg,
• flash,
• flv,
• free,
• h263,
• mpeg,
• opensource,
• vfw,
• video,
• video for windows,
• virtualdub,
• vp6,
• vp62