When I started using Flash Communication Server in late 2003, I understood that
recording streams to flv and then converting to other formats would be a
challenge. I haven't used the program again until recently, and I was shocked,
and disturbed quite honestly that after almost 2 1/2 years, there still appears
to be no easy or legal way to convert FLV to other formats via a simple convert
utility and I am surprised more people aren't up in arms and demanding this to
tell you the truth.
All I am looking for is a Linux app to convert an FLV video or audio to MP3,
or any other type of audio format. When I started my hunt for such an app, I
arrogantly thought it would be a matter of minutes before I found such a
solution - after all there are millions of perl modules to convert all kinds of
sound, video and graphics formats from one form to another.
I have been trying to get FLV2MP3 running in RedHat Enterprise 4 and have not
been successful - I've come close but I need this to run as an automated,
behind-the-scenes process and FLV2MP3 seems to be hard-wired to run in XWindows
with a connected display.
Further, if I understand correctly, the FMS can take a flv and stream it as
mp3? Why can't it record an flv and write it to an mp3 on the fly?
Is all this because the owners of the flv format don't want it to be easily
converted or Adobe wants to control the platforms that can deliver flv content?
