Testing flash ffmpeg

As I mentioned before when publishing video content you need to facor in the quality of the video and accessibility for the internet user. Quicktime with the excellent h264 encoder delivers excellent quality video providing you get your settings right. It is also geared to mobile device delivery.
Flash on the other hand is pre installed on 98% of pc’s and the intall/upgrade is more straight forward than Quicktime.
I tested ffmpegx but found I could not encode from .mov (Quicktime) to .flv (flash) and discovered that I needed to reverse the audio and video tracks by hand in Quicktime Pro.
Here is the result I am not too impressed by the quality as the images are softer especially when you compare it to the same video on the home page here but on the other hand it is a free open source app.

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On the other hand I if you are willing to compromise the size of the video it stacks up quite well

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