[Klug-general] converting video on the fly

Tristan Linnell talinnell at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 08:44:07 UTC 2013


Or ffmpeg running alongside ffserver.
On 28 Jan 2013 08:43, "Andrew Spode Miller" <spode at justfdi.com> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> any one got any ideas or links to tutorials and the such.
>>
>>
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