ffmpeg

At DrupalCon in Boston, during my presentation on Media Mover and DruTube, there was someone (forgive me I forgotten your name) that was asking for multiple thumbnail generation from a single video file.

Howdy-

I've been doing some work on Media Mover and part of it has been pulling out the wrapper that I wrote for FFmpeg. While I know that not everybody needs the functionality of Media Mover, most people who are manipulating video (and audio!) do need FFmpeg functionality. So I've created a module FFmpeg Wrapper which provides a basic API for using FFmpeg. File duration, installed codecs and supported formats are accessible.

Howdy.

I just wanted to alert people who are interested in doing video/media work on Drupal that I've finally had the time to put together some of the tie-ins that make it possible to create some pretty remarkable video functionality. Using media_mover to do transcoding of uploaded videos, xspf_playlist to build dynamic playlists, and flvmediaplayer to render the player, we can now have a video player which not only plays user uploaded content, but can both recommend content based on a views or play a list of content generated by a view. FLV Media Player will let you take the player and embed it in a page off site if desired. Further, you can use a dynamic configuration file for the player which allows you to alter the appearance and behavior of embedded players already deployed in the field.

We have set up some bounties to help finance the development of OpenPackage Video. Each feature has an amount that must be raised before it will be implemented. We use the ChipIn system to manage donations. If you would like to contribute to the development of one of the features you can donate through its ChipIn widget.

op_video-5.x-2.1 is now available from http://openpackage.biz/.

The main highlight of this release is that it is now backward compatible with mysql 3.23 and php 4.3.3 in line with drupal 5 core and also now works with db table prefixes. If you have had problems before, please give this release a try.

Other changes:
'max duration' transcoding parameter
JW FLV Player must be downloaded separately and decompressed in the op_video directory
other random bug fixes

op_video-5.x-2.0.tar.gz is now available from OpenPackage.biz.

Highlights of this release are:

Local FFmpeg transcoding

For videos to be viewed in-browser, they must be transcoded to FLV format. In addition to the existing method of transfering videos to OpenPackage.biz for transcoding, videos can now be transcoded using a local installation of FFmpeg.

There are a number of solutions available to get an FLV video solution where users upload an AVI movie directly within a node, the system converts it to FLV, and then displays it within the node. It seems that the best solutions are: Video, Embedded Media Field, FlashVideo, Media Mover and SWFTools, and OpenPackage. Unfortunately every solution I mentioned here has a few flaws.....