Comments on: Server-Side FFmpeg Converter: Flash, ARP, & SWFStudio

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:43:24 +0000

Sonke Rohde has updated his Flex 2 GUI for FFMPEG.

By: Ritesh Jariwala

Ritesh Jariwala — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:12:48 +0000

Hi Jesse,

This is really cool. Can you just write down steps to use your codes or check it out how your code is working. I tried to setup things but no setup instruction from your side lead me no where to check your example/code in action.

I guess its abs. cool and i really want to try it out.

By: Aran

Aran — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:02:51 +0000

Thanks for the further info Jesse.

I now found a page which has the latest builds of ffmpeg for windows:

http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/ffmpeg/

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:57:22 +0000

1. Version 3.2 Build 136. Yep, just filesys. 2. ffmpeg version prints out:

ffmpeg version
ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4751, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
  configuration:  --enable-memalign-hack --enable-mp3lame --enable-mingw32 --ext
ra-cflags=-I/local/include --extra-ldflags=-L/local/lib --enable-amr_nb
  built on Mar 29 2005 07:26:02, gcc: 3.2.3 (mingw special 20030504-1)

3. The bat deletes the previous log, previous flv, and then calls ffmpeg with the parameters as well as logging the output to a text field. I thought about writing a parser for the log to get better error messages, but... uh.. that's a lot of work for little gain.

del %1.txt
del %1.flv
ffmpeg.exe -i %1.mpg %1.flv > %1.txt 2

Props to Thomas Burleson for getting that dang bat file format logging syntax correct!

By: Aran

Aran — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:37:31 +0000

Jesse.

Great article.

Just a few questions to clarify things:

1. So in regards to compiling the VideoConverter.swf in SWFStudio, I take it you are using v3 (.2?). What plugin modules are you including? Is it just filesys to do the file copy?

2. Was there a specific build of FFPMEG you are using? I am currently using a windows build : ffmpeg.rev5498.

3. You have an FLV_CONVERSION_BAT constant. Is the batch file actually getting used? If so what is supposed to be in it?