My Southwest USA trip day 11: Silver City, NM - Wickenburg, AZ 
Monday, January 5, 2009, 07:16 PM - Personal, English, Nederlands

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My Southwest USA trip day 10: Alamogordo, NM - Silver City, NM 
Sunday, January 4, 2009, 07:03 PM - Personal, English, Nederlands

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Time lapse movies made with Flix.

To convert avi to flv I use ffmpeg (you can download the latest windows binary here), it's a command line tool, the commands I use for two-pass encoding:
first command (on one line):
ffmpeg.exe -i input.avi -vcodec libx264 -s 448x336 -g 300 -vb 512k -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -pass 1 output.flv
second command is exactly the same, except for '-pass 2'.
where:
-i: input video file
-vcodev: video codec, in this case h.264
-s: size, [width]x[height]
-g: gop (group of pictures) size. 300 means a keyframe each 300 frames
-vb (or -b): video bitrate
-qmin: minimum video quantizer scale
-qmax: maximum video quantizer scale (these two quantizer values makes it possible to get close to the desired video bitrate)
In case you have audio in the avi, add these options:
-acodec: audio codec (libmp3lame is default with flv)
-ab: audio bitrate (e.g. 64k)
-ar: audio sampling frequency (e.g. 22050)

For a complete ffmpeg manual see http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html

Update 2020 (second corona wave)
Luckily I converted to h.264 codec, so conversion to mp4 is lossless.
Now html5 is playing the videos.

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My Southwest USA trip day 9: Lordsburg, NM - Alamogordo, NM 
Saturday, January 3, 2009, 07:56 PM - Personal, English, Nederlands

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My Southwest USA trip day 8: Sierra Vista, AZ - Lordsburg, NM 
Friday, January 2, 2009, 07:56 PM - Personal, English, Nederlands

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My Southwest USA trip day 7: Tucson, AZ - Sierra Vista, AZ 
Thursday, January 1, 2009, 07:27 PM - Personal, English, Nederlands

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My Southwest USA trip day 6: Tucson, AZ 
Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 07:20 PM - Personal, English, Nederlands

Not a road day.

My Southwest USA trip day 5: Tucson, AZ - Saguaro National Park (west), AZ 
Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 07:51 PM - Personal, English, Nederlands

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