ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Was just wondering if anyone knows of any web-services that I could integrate into one of my websites CMS so that I can encode videos on the fly?
So far I think my options are:
Get the user to upload the vids in the correct format
Force the user to use Firefox and install Firefogg
Find a web service that'll do it
Install FFWMPG onto my server and setup my own system
Has anyone dine anything like this before?
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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I've used a php wrapper for FFMPEG, Mencoder and FLVTools called php video toolkit which worked ok. Although it wasn't particularly fast (no doubt i hadn't configured it correctly) and i ended up knocking together a backend processing system which ran every X minutes checking for videos that needed processing and then alerted the corresponding user when it was finished, a bit like youtube. If you ajax'd the whole thing you could make it a lot more user friendly though.
I'm guessing there isn't a plugin for your CMS?
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ed
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Oops, I did mean to say PHP Video Toolkit. I was thinking about doing what you have done in the past and running a CRON job to encode the videos. Does that not have any issues with PHP's max execution time though? I was going to avoid AJAX'ing it as the user would have to wait for the video to encode which might be a bit of a faff.
The CMS is custom, so I'm making my own plugin for this 
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ed
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Just an update if anyone is interested. I've installed FFMPEG with x264, Theora and WebM codecs. I've written a PHP script which executes some shell commands to encode the video into .M4V, .OGV and .webm containers with the correct CODEC's using a CRON job, updating the database accordingly. Also grabs some frames from the videos to use as 'posters' seeing as the tag is available
Seems to work pretty well actually and I learned how to use Linux over SSH...
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