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July 15, 2006

Flash, FFMPEG and more..

Over at OpenVlog I have just finished implementing an automatic Flash conversion for video that is sent in. It was quite a task from getting FFMPEG running on Dreamhost with LAME and AMR support (you need to change your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable), understanding Ruby enough to get FLVTool2 installed and working (another environment variable issue) and building a fancy Flash video player..

I think it was worthwhile in the end..

A Sample: I love NY (click on the Flash Version link).

Next will be making thumbnails with FFMPEG so that I don't use the silly "Click Here" graphic anymore.. I suppose I should still say, "click here" as for some strange reason I can not get the mouse pointer to change over top of the QuickTime plugin. That is a story for another day but the gist is, use JavaScript instead of reference movies. The added benefit is that IE users don't have the extra alert.

Thanks to Cat and the FreeFormed.org crew for the impetus.

Posted by vanevery at 08:34 PM

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wow, pretty cool. Can you get it working the other way so I can do can get youtube videos on to my ipod?

Posted by: joshua dickens at July 16, 2006 02:38 AM

Very nice work, ..similar to what Joshua has asked, do you think reverse engineering that is possible. getting youTube and Google Videos on your IPod would be cool. What do you think that entails ?

Source ?

Posted by: Ram Subramanian at July 17, 2006 12:26 AM

I am sure that you can use ffmpeg to convert FLV to H.264. I would try but I didn't install the x.264 libraries.

YouTube might be using an RTMP server though which might make it tough to get the FLV in the first place. Then again, it might just be HTTP in which case it would be easy. I went to take a look but digging through their javascript wasn't fun so I gave up.. ;-)

Posted by: Shawn Van Every at July 17, 2006 05:02 PM

hi
could you tell me how to solve this issue
when i install it,but declined always
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get FLVTool2 installed and working (another environment variable issue)
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Posted by: James Jao at July 27, 2006 01:41 AM