On 08/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">chris wyllie</b> <<a href="mailto:cgwyllie@googlemail.com">cgwyllie@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It's kinda like a youtube clone in that I need to upload large videos, create previews of them by converting, watermark them to keep copyright and create a thumbnail.
<br><br>ffmpeg was suggested and evidently it's a widely used option for this kind of task. The problem is that the hosting plan which has been bought already(out of my control) have pulled the plug on ffmpeg support as it's a shared environment and was causing resource issues.
<br><br><br>Secondly, the upload of very large video files(a few hundred megs) would have to be handled through a web interface and the brief stipulates using FTP</blockquote><div><br><br>ffmpeg is undoubtedly the way to go. I would shop around for hosting that will support the application rather than try to build the application in an inadequate environment.
<br><br>If you're planning to stream megabytes of video then your bandwidth might be high enough to warrant looking at co-lo anyway.<br><br>rb<br></div><br></div>