[axxs-sysadmin] ffmpeg on borg

[Dave Fregon]

Indytube does it, from engagemedia, its standalone ... Search for it, on my phone atm so can't pass link
Dave

---- Original message ----
From: Cameron Gregg <cam at earthanarchy.org>
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Subject: Re: [axxs-sysadmin] ffmpeg on borg

Dave Fregon wrote:
> All good, i was thinking me working on a django app that will use
> this stuff ... GPL of course .... What ya want to achieve? Dave ----

I want to convert video uploads on sydney/aus indymedias to flv and ogg.

I was thinking a daemonised process that reads requests from various 
sources and queues them up for transcoding. reniced to low priority of 
course, don't want to interupt critical services on borg.

Cam



> Original message ---- From: Cameron Gregg <cam at earthanarchy.org> 
> Sent: To: Administration list for running axxs.org,a server hosting
> IMCs and other community websites.
> <axxs-sysadmin at lists.indymedia.org> Cc: tech list for indymedia
> sydney <imc-sydney-tech at indymedia.org.au> Subject: [axxs-sysadmin]
> ffmpeg on borg
> 
> 
> I've built and installed ffmpeg on borg.
> 
> Following instructions off the web, ie 
> http://stream0.org/2008/01/install-ffmpeg-on-debian-etch.html
> 
> I added to sources.list
> 
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main deb-src
> http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
> 
> checked out ffmpeg into /usr/local/src
> 
> I got it to build after a bit of stuffing round.
> 
> I installed it in /usr/local using 'make install', didn't bother with
>  the checkinstall bizzo.
> 
> 
> cam at borg:/usr/local/src/ffmpeg$ export
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib; cam at borg:/usr/local/src/ffmpeg$
> /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg --version FFmpeg version SVN-r15796, Copyright
> (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration:
> --prefix=/usr/local --enable-gpl --enable-libvorbis 
> --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame
> --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-pthreads --enable-libxvid
> --enable-shared --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-libtheora
>  libavutil     49.12. 0 / 49.12. 0 libavcodec    52. 3. 0 / 52. 3. 0 
> libavformat   52.23. 1 / 52.23. 1 libavdevice   52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0 
> libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0 built on Nov  9 2008 09:31:32, gcc:
> 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21) /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg:
> missing argument for option '--version' 
> cam at borg:/usr/local/src/ffmpeg$
> 
> 
> Not sure if I've got all the media codecs in there tho.
> 
> 
> Is there anyone else on borg that wants to use this? I was thinking
> if so then we need a system that will queue files from all our
> websites. Maybe such a system already exists?
> 
> Any advice from those that have done this sort of thing before?
> 
> Thanks Cam
> 
> 
> 
> 
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