[Klug-general] converting video on the fly

[Andrew Spode Miller]

The keyword for your searching is 'transcoding'

I believe vlc was designed for exactly this purpose.
On 28 Jan 2013 08:27, "Dan Attwood" <danattwood at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I'm been looking at this on a off for a while and failing to get
> anywhere so I wonder if anyone has any ideas on how i might do this:
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> I have a folder full of videos in various formats (avi, mkv etc). I would
> like to be able to play these in a html 5 capable video player embedded in
> a php page - so flash. I don't want to have to convert all the videos to
> mp4 permanently but want to be able is possible to convert them on the fly.
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> This is also because I have xbmc which runs awesomely as a standalone/
> full screen app but is rubbish when running in windowed mode on a desktop.
> so the idea was to create a web front end running of the xbmc database.
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> any one got any ideas or links to tutorials and the such.
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