Minor quality quibbles aside, the Miro Video Converter solves many of the headaches around dual-format video publishing.
I also dropped a couple of FLVs into Miro and converted them to both Ogg and MP4 with equally satisfactory results. The quality was better than I expected – not quite as good as the Flash/H.264 originals, but I had to lean in pretty close to the screen to notice anything more than simple motion artifacts. Both were in HD, and both took about five minutes to convert to Ogg Theora. I tested the app by converting a couple of MOV files I downloaded from Vimeo – one music documentary trailer from Medeski, Martin and Wood, and one short DSLR film shot around Maui by Helene Park. But Miro's no-nonsense drag and drop user experience is much simpler and easier to use than anything else out there. It offers similar speed and quality to Handbrake's popular conversion tool (there are also a gaggle of commercial video converters available for around $20 or $30).
flv file, so Miro's tool is a welcome addition to any site builder's quiver. It's not ideal, but it's the way the winds are blowing right now, and site builders will be stuck dual-publishing with HTML5 and Flash until the messiness of web video is sorted out.īut cross-converting files can be challenging, especially if all you have is a Flash. Most people going the HTML5 self-publishing route are serving one of the two prevailing formats (Ogg or H.264) and offering Flash as a fallback.
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