Re: convert video files to FLV

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > If you'll note, the original question was to find a way which did not > require ffmpeg. I should really have rephrased that to say "I know of no > way you can do this without ffmpeg". I've used ffmpeg and mencoder > myself to transcode videos to flv, but in environments where I had full > control over the server. Short of moving servers (or at least moving > this part of the work to another server) I see no clear way to do it. I think in the original question (I have it deleted now) he didn't say he didn't have access to it, but later he did. Then I kinda just veered off into general discussion about it. There -are- API-based services for video transcoding. They're all PPV (pay-per-view) so you pay for how much you use... - Softlayer offers it to customers (http://www.softlayer.com) - it would be a very fast transfer too as you'd be on the same network as the conversion servers - http://www.gomediaplug.com/ appears to leverage EC2 itself - http://www.multicastmedia.com/solutions/eat.php "Transcoding as a service" Also, the OP could leverage Amazon's EC2 and make an encoding farm (all depending on budget) - again it is PPV too, so it will only charge for how much he actually needs. Isn't utility computing great? (Or just install Ubuntu/some OS yourself and setup ffmpeg on your EC2 boxes yourself)