How to convert video for wordpress video streamer.

[jtadeo]

Good evening,

I'm trying to figure out what the best method for converting my videos for a Wordpress website is. I record footage with my HD Camcorder and edit the video in Sony Vegas 9.

This is where I need help. How should I render the video?

The video player that I'm using on my wordpress website is
http://rodrigopolo.com/about/wp-stream-video

if you go there you will see that the author of the video player has two examples, one for HD and one for SD quality videos. That's what I want to do with my website.

He did give the commands used to convert the mp4 video to flv using the .264 codec - my question is how do I get the mp4 video from Sony Vegas?

the commands that the author provided were

# SD HQ (512kbps)
ffmpeg -y -threads 8 -i Input-For-Encoding.mp4 -s 640x352 -aspect 16:9 -r 24 -b 360k -bt 416k -vcodec libx264 -pass 1 -vpre fastfirstpass -an pre-SD-HQ-512kbps.flv && ffmpeg -y -threads 8 -i Input-For-Encoding.mp4 -s 640x352 -aspect 16:9 -r 24 -b 360k -bt 416k -vcodec libx264 -pass 2 -vpre hq -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 64k pre-SD-HQ-512kbps.flv

# HD (2mbps)
ffmpeg -y -threads 8 -i Input-For-Encoding.mp4 -s 1280x720 -aspect 16:9 -r 24 -b 1536k -bt 1792k -vcodec libx264 -pass 1 -vpre fastfirstpass -an pre-HD-2Mbps.flv && ffmpeg -y -threads 8 -i Input-For-Encoding.mp4 -s 1280x720 -aspect 16:9 -r 24 -b 1536k -bt 1792k -vcodec libx264 -pass 2 -vpre hq -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 128k pre-HD-2Mbps.flv

http://rodrigopolo.com/wp-content/uploads/video/BigBuckBunny/encoding-commands.txt


So if anyone and tell me how to accomplish getting the mp4 file to begin with I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks a lot.

[Soopafresh]

You mean, how to render from Vegas to an MP4? BTW, Flash player doesn't care if your file extension is MP4 or FLV. It reads what's inside the file, so it seems redundant that the guy is posting ffmpeg commands converting MP4 to FLV. Rendering from Vegas to MP4, then converting via FFmpeg to FLV is a quality killer.
Just save in Vegas to an h264 MP4, using the same bitrate and size settings as the ffmpeg commands above. Then you can just rename the MP4 to FLV if you need to.

For your wordpress settings, you'll want to create a custom render template (see video below) with

SD
Size: 640x352
Frame Rate: 24
Bitrate: 512000
Audio: 44100, 128K

HD
Size: 1280x720
Frame Rate: 24
Bitrate: 1536000
Audio: 44100, 128K

[jtadeo]

Thank you so much for that post.. I tried what you suggested and was very impressed with the quality and the size of the renders. One problem though, when I upload them to the website I have to wait for the video to finish downloading before I can view it.. with the FLV renders that I had they would play and download at the same time.. any suggestions?

[guns1inger]

You may have to remux it with yamb to get the bits and pieces into the file to make it stream correctly

[jtadeo]

You may have to remux it with yamb to get the bits and pieces into the file to make it stream correctly

yea, I just read that some where... thanks for the quick reply

I'm using this command
mp4box -inter 500 name_of_the_video.mp4

does that seem right?

[guns1inger]

Not done it, so I can neither confirm nor deny . . . . . .

But I am sure someone who has will be along shortly