encoding video for html5 playback

I am creating a video portfolio website with a large quantity of videos and I am wondering as to the best way to go about encoding the videos for web playback. I am using the html5 video for everybody methodology, so I need the vid开发者_如何学Pythoneo encoded in the following 3 formats:

• h.264
• Ogg
• WebM

I don't necissarily NEED WebM, but it would be nice.

Up until now I've been using a combination of Handbrake and ffmpeg2theora, but I am looking for some sort of all in one solution, as Handbrake seems to have trouble with large sized videos, and ffmpeg2theora is just a pain in the ass. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

Miro Video Converter works really well for all those formats.

It's essentially a wrapper UI for ffmpeg and has limited options but does a good job.

You can also display the ffmpeg command log and tweak the command if the default output doesn't satisfy you.

It's also free.

You might want to take a look at VLC's conversion functionality. It can export in a number of different formats using export plug-ins, and has a handy encoding queue as well. As of right now I know it can do H.264 as well as Theora ... I'm not sure about WebM ... my version doesn't, but there may be an encoding plug-in coming that will do that as well.

Best of all, VLC is free.

Hope this helps,

Jason

FYI I tried Miro, and ran into some odd conversion issues. My .ogg files were fine, but my .webm files were a bit wonky. They'd play/run fine locally, but I'd get an error with the file when I uploaded it to my server (it would play once, and then hang every time thereafter).

I had some luck with Firefogg, which I ended up using without problems.

However, both Miro and Firefogg are more of a one file, click, convert approach. If you're wanting to do a large batch, here's a guide that a friend sent to me, from Brett Terpstra: Automating HTML5 Video Encodes. It's way over my head... but perhaps of some use to you.