FFMPEG

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Posted by stefanwray on May 4, 2010 at 7:32pm

Anyone on this GDO Group know much about FFMPEG and Drupal, or does anyone know anyone in Austin who knows about this?

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FFMPEG and Drupal

Posted by arkiii on May 4, 2010 at 8:04pm
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Hi Stefan,

I played with it for a while. Was trying to install it to use it to stream videos but could never get it to work quite right so i chunked it.

I installed Kaltura and after some minor adjustments, it worked great. You should take a look at Kaltura as an option, I think they have very good solution that works with Drupal...

Fito

hosted ffmpeg conversion is an option

Posted by texas-bronius on May 4, 2010 at 8:57pm
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A couple years back, I built a site that needed only occasional ffmpeg video translation, so it didn't warrant wiring it up on the server. I found a hosted solution which worked just fine.

Looks like they've rebranded since then: http://bluedroplet.com/ I can't speak to the current situation, but back in the day, basically one could upload a video in whatever format to the drupal site, and the drupal site cron would detect it, ship it over to the hosted ffmpeg service which would ding paid transcoding credits and return an flv. The drupal site would then automatically make the transcoded flv available to whatever mechanism was there to display it. It was cheap, easy to set up, and a no-think solution.

thanks arkii and texas-bronius

Posted by stefanwray on May 5, 2010 at 2:26pm
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thanks arkii and texas-bronius

ffmpeg is a beast and there's not a lot of documentation that i can find re: its relationship to drupal, so this helps