[Klug-general] converting video on the fly

[Dan Attwood]

I've tried with ffmpeg and didn't seem to get very far. I'll have a search
around ffserver and see where that gets me.




On 28 January 2013 08:43, Tristan Linnell <talinnell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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