FFmpeg is a great cross platform, open source encoder and converter for a wide range of audio and video file formats, but it's command line syntax and Unix roots can make things tricky to get it working properly on Windows platforms. Encoding for iPod, iPad or iPhone devices is further complicated by the complexity of the H.264 video codec and it's plethora of profiles, levels and options that all must be correctly specified in order to get a valid encode. Put the two together, and you have a recipe for head scratching.
In this post, I'll show how I use FFmpeg on Windows to transcode video files for my iPhone.
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