I have a web server based on Ubuntu 12.04, the user can upload a video (whatever the format/container/codec it is) then i want to convert it to an MP4 video. I tried ffmpeg without good result (and now it is also deprecated).
How i can do this?
The important is also to reduce the resolution for HD videos for reduce video's size.
Thank you in advance.
I suggest you take a look at this question.
ffmpeg is not deprecated. You are probably receiving misleading information. ffmpeg will work great for what you want to do. I suggest you take a second try. You can use it from PHP or Java for example and execute it through command line. It is particularly fitted for batch processing and any media-based automated task.
The option to resize in ffmpeg is -s (see here for more info).
If you are really not convince with that I suggest you take a look handbrake which also has a command line interface for Ubuntu. Handbrake is mostly a wrapper for ffmpeg (with a GUI also).
After that there are paid options like zencoder which has a great cloud-based API. A more comprehensive list is here.
I hope you get what you are looking for. If you have any issue with ffmpeg please post your code and console output on a new question.
ffmpeg" from Libav (a fork of FFmpeg) has been deprecated by Libav for their programavconv. Development activity forffmpegfrom FFmpeg has always been, and continues to be, very active. Few can deny that the "deprecated" message was misleading to users. – llogan