FF* is a powerful open source video file converter, which can convert video formats including MOV, AVI, 3GP to Asterisk (h263 and wav) and vice versa. FF* is a GPL application using ffmpeg’s features.

Key features and beneficts

• Audio decoding form a video file to wav PCM file format
• Video encoding form a video file to h263 asterisk file format
• Asterisk encoding from wav+h263 to Quicktime/3GP file formats
• Codecs and RTP parameters can be customized

Linux OS requirements

FF* packages are tested for Debian Linux base on distributions with GCC3 / libstdc++5 or GCC4 / libstdc++6 environment. To install, configure and use FF* converter, please read the documentation with sources. If you install in others distributions launching scripts and some libraries can be different.

We recommend to build with:

• Debian SARGE (and other distributions GCC3 / libstdc++5)
• Debian ETCH (last Linux kernels GCC4 / libstdc++6)
• Ubuntu
• AsteriskNOW

Licensing

FF* is distributed as Gnu Public License.