rhubarbpie at poetworld.net wrote: > I've generated an animated GIF of a machine part for viewing with a > browser. It works quite well, but I'd like to make it interactive > (pause/resume), which I understand isn't possible with an animated GIF. > I know very little of video and tried this with ffmpeg using "ffmpeg -f > gif -i Animation.gif Animation.flv". Although Animation.flv generates, > it won't play with mplayer. The file is identified as "Macromedia Flash > Player" using the file command. > > I found I can generate Animation.avi using "ffmpeg -f gif -i > Animation.gif Animation.avi". That avi file does play with mplayer. > Using ffmpeg -f avi -i Animation.avi Animation.flv" also produces a > Flash file which won't play. What am I missing when generating? Is > there an alternative? As I say, I know very little of video and would > like to keep the loop animated GIF capability. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > Here's a couple commands to try to get your avi to clean up. convert a.mp4 to something standard: ffmpeg -i a.mp4 -vcodec rawvideo b.avi and/or convert and scale to standard: mencoder b.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vf scale=320:240 -oac pcm -o c320x240.avi