I've got a bunch of videos stored in various formats, available to download remotely. I would also like to be able to stream these videos, à la youtube. Flash-based video streamers require the video to be encoded in FLV format, which isn't exactly an archival-quality format. Since it's not practical to store an archival copy and a streamable copy of every video file I've got, I used a nifty little combination of ffmpeg, php, flash and lighttpd's FLV streaming module. Now I can select a video file in any format, and ffmpeg transcodes it to FLV on-the-fly and streams it to the flash-based viewer applet. I plan to integrate it better with a GD-based AJAX-powered lightweight image gallery script, and release the whole setup to people looking for an intelligent browser-based multimedia interface.
qnb@live.nl - 2008-10-18 03:57:26
Nice script! Nice idea. Excellent:-P