I just answered this on the ffmpeg-php boards, but here it is for anyone else.
heres one of the settings i use for mid range ffmpeg flv encoding :
ffmpeg -i in.mov -acodec mp3 -ab 48k -ac 1 -ar 44100 -f flv -deinterlace -nr 500 -croptop 4 -cropbottom 4 -cropleft 8 -cropright 8 -s 320×240 -aspect 4:3 [...]
I just answered this on the ffmpeg-php boards, but here it is for anyone else.
heres one of the settings i use for mid range ffmpeg flv encoding :
ffmpeg -i in.mov -acodec mp3 -ab 48k -ac 1 -ar 44100 -f flv -deinterlace -nr 500 -croptop 4 -cropbottom 4 -cropleft 8 -cropright 8 -s 320×240 -aspect 4:3 -r 25 -b 270k -me_range 25 -i_qfactor 0.71 -g 500 out.flv