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ffmpeg -i origtif.timelapse -f flv -sameq -s 500x332 -shortest out_webformat_tif.flv
ffmpeg version 0.10.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jun 25 2012 00:54:04 with gcc 4.5.3
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --shlibdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-shared --cc=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc --cxx=i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ --ar=i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar --optflags='-O2 -march=core2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe' --extra-cflags='-O2 -march=core2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe' --extra-cxxflags='-O2 -march=core2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe' --disable-static --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --disable-stripping --disable-debug --disable-network --disable-vaapi --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-libfaac --enable-nonfree --disable-indev=v4l --disable-indev=v4l2 --enable-x11grab --enable-libfreetype --enable-pthreads --enable-libgsm --disable-amd3dnow --disable-amd3dnowext --disable-altivec --disable-avx --disable-mmx --disable-mmx2 --disable-ssse3 --disable-vis --disable-neon --cpu=core2 --enable-hardcoded-tables
  libavutil      51. 35.100 / 51. 35.100
  libavcodec     53. 61.100 / 53. 61.100
  libavformat    53. 32.100 / 53. 32.100
  libavdevice    53.  4.100 / 53.  4.100
  libavfilter     2. 61.100 /  2. 61.100
  libswscale      2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
  libswresample   0.  6.100 /  0.  6.100
  libpostproc    52.  0.100 / 52.  0.100
[avi @ 0x8858aa0] decoding for stream 0 failed
[avi @ 0x8858aa0] Could not find codec parameters (Video: none (tiff / 0x66666974))
origtif.timelapse: could not find codec parameters