Compared some video to flash converters
What is the flash video?
Flash Video is a type of video that can be played by Flash Player. A Flash Video file can be a separated FLV file or a video stream in a SWF file. It has various video encoding methods. Flash Player 6 only supports Sorenson Spark encoding method; Flash Player 7 supports one more encoding method, Screen Video that can compress files without losing the original quality. Apart from the two above-mentioned encoding methods, Flash Player 8 supports On2 VP6, which is currently the best encoder available. Its video quality is superior to MPEG4, H264, and DIVX. As Flash Video becoming more and more popular, it will be the major built-in web video file in the near future.
Why we need a video to flash converter?
More and more videos were laid on the web, but not all people can view the video on the webpages because they don’t have the proper video player. In order to make people view the whole videos on the webpages, most video styles were converted to flash styles, such as swf and flv. Flash video converter is the tool to convert video to flash.Several Flash Video Converting Tools Comparison?
Macromedia Company has a tool named Flash Video Encoder. Besides the Flash Video encoder from the Macromedia company, there are different other Flash Video encoders such as
SwishVideo (http://www.swishzone.com),
On2 Flix (http://flix.on2.com/)
Video to Flash Encoder (http://www.flash-on-tv.com/video-to-flash.html).
Now I am going to compare these different Flash Video encoders on unregistered version limitation, conversion speed interface style, video input type, output type , video capture & split, video conversion settings, other swf functions, audio settings, encoding quality & output file size, etc.
Unregistered Version Limitation
Macromedia Flash Video Encoder: Sold along with Macromedia Flash MX; 30-day trial period.
Video to Flash Encoder: Watermark on output video.
Swish Video: 15-day trial period
On2 Flix: Watermark on output video.
Conversion Speed (Very impartant)
Macromedia Flash Video Encoder: encoder: fast
Swish Video: encoder: fast
Video to Flash Encoder: encoder: fast
On2 Flix: encoder: slow
Encoding Quality & Output File Size (Very important)
Macromedia Flash Video Encoder: average quality and big file size.Video to Flash Encoder: high quality and small file size.
Swish Video: encoder: average quality and big file size
On2 Flix: encoder: average quality and average file size.
Interface Style:
Macromedia Flash Video Encoder: Traditional Windows style and paging method.
Video to Flash Encoder: Windows XP style and Wizard method.
Swish Video: Traditional Windows style and paging method.
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