Developer Notes

• Written for Ubuntu
• Originally based on https://gist.github.com/yellowled/1439610
• Useful reading (webm):
  • https://gist.github.com/yellowled/1439610
  • http://daniemon.com/blog/how-to-convert-videos-to-webm-with-ffmpeg/
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5603825/ffmpeg-terrible-conversion-quality-when-using-sameq-same-quantizer-as-source

Requirements

• ffmpeg
• ffmpeg2theora

Usage

Ensure the script has the executable bit set then simply run it using a command such as ./videoToHTML5.sh original_video.mov 70 5 640x360

• Param1 = the video file
• Param2 = The video quality to use
• Param3 = The audio quality to use

If you want a more high-res video for desktop use (the above could look grainy when full-screen) then try these settings ./videoToHTML5.sh original_video.mov 80 5 1280x720

Troubleshooting

No known bugs as yet

Notes

You may already know that with video compression, fine tuning is often required. This script may then be just a good starting point for you to jump in and tweak a few of the settings yourself to get exactly the filesize and quality you desire.