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October 2, 2006
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Automating Video-to-Flash Encoding/Conversions

  • October 2, 2006
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Hi, I hope someone can help me with this, as numerous calls to Adobe have gone
unanswered (no callbacks).

I need to either find a product and/or solution that will enable me to convert
various video formats (e.g., QuickTime, MPEG, Windows Media, etc.) to Flash
automatically as opposed to doing it manually via the Macromedia Flash 8 Video
Encoder or other manual process(es).

A good example of the functionality I need is equivalent to how YouTube works:
When you upload a video to YouTube, some background process/service runs that
takes that video and converts it to Flash, and this is done
automatically--without user/manual processing. I need to have a solution that
does something like that.

Any suggestions/help are/is greatly appreciated.


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    Anonymous
    October 16, 2006
    FMS_Developer,
    Fixed my pm settings.

    Shack
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    Anonymous
    October 16, 2006
    B_Shack ; you wrote me a PM but you do not allow a PM back so the answer is here:

    If you want to convert an FLV (recorded before or just recorded from a live-stream) to another type or extract a single frame from it to make a (jpg) thumbnail call some script on your FMS server (install apache+php for example on it) and let the script execute ffmpeg with the correct parameters. ffmpeg will read the FLV, extract the frame as a jpeg picture. Then convert the picture to the resolution you like and store it with a new name on your server. You don't want to host that file on your FMS server so call an external script on another server using fopen() (PHP) and let the other (web)server retrieve the picture from your FMS server (using another fopen()). Then store it wherever you want on your webserver et voila.
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    Anonymous
    October 16, 2006
    Sigidi is right. ffmpeg is your friend. It can handle a LOT of codecs and is 100% commandline operated so you can write simple scripts that run on your server in the background to do the recoding.

    We are using ffmpeg to extract a single frame from uploaded FLV's (actually live recorded webcam-streams) and convert that frame to a jpeg thumbnail. Works like a charm.

    I doubt any server-product exists that does what you ask, without ANY coding in some language.
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    Sigidi
    Participant
    October 3, 2006
    I would suggest you look into ffmpeg, wich can convert multiple videoformats into any encoding and extension you like, including flash 8.
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    EdChurchward
    Participant
    October 9, 2006
    I think ffmpeg would require a lot of additional coding. I am looking for a similar solution and have not been able to find and out of box solution yet.
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    0rgreen0
    Participant
    October 9, 2006
    Take a look at www.on2.com They have server encoding solution.
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