FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio file format for lossless audio data. FLAC does not lose quality from the audio stream, during compression. Which is the biggest advantage over the lossy compression formats such as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis. The disadvantage of using FLAC to digitally store music is the files are quite a bit larger than the lossy formats.

This tutorial will show how to install FFmpeg and the required libraries, that give FFmpeg support for the codecs required to convert AVCHD videos.

This section deals with the specifics of decoding HD video from a HDC-SD9 camera. The HDC-SD9 is Panasonic’s third generation of memory card-based camcorders. The HDC-SD9 camera uses the AVCHD audio/video format. We need to tailor our switches to these formats.

This tutorial will show you how to install FFmpeg and transcode video files into DivX format.

I recently discovered I could play videos on my Xbox 360. Awesome. No longer do I have hook up a monstrous audio in, and s-video cables every time I want to watch South Park. Now I can just fire up my Xbox and watch the movies from my file server.