[IMC-Video] IndyTube - now with distributed transcoding

[john duda]

Ok, indytube now supports a significant new feature - distributed
transcoding.  This means that, rather than having to rely on the cpu
resources of your (presumably already overloaded) cms server to
transcode things to flv format, you can now use a network of other
machines to do this boring, computationally intensive task for you.
And this network of transcoding "workers" can be used by multiple
"masters".

The code is still being tested, but it does work.  At the moment, the
major thing on the todo list is to restore the great ogg theora
transcoding/cortado applet code that got added in by engagemedia - the
master/worker configuration will currently only do flv conversion.

The code is available from codecoop via svn:

https://svn.codecoop.org/svn/indytube

(this also btw merges back in the engagemedia improvements)

if you'd like more info on how it works, check out:

http://codecoop.org/scm/viewvc.php/README.master_and_worker?revision=8&root=indytube&view=markup

The original, standalone, run periodically indytube is still included
in the release.

I'm running one encoder now, and if people want to use it for their
own setup, let me know.  Ideally eventually we could build up a cloud
of these things...

Hope somebody finds this useful,
-john


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