Video to Flash on the command line
It was bound to happen… I’ve taken on a project that requires me to convert a video upload into web friendly Flash. I suppose it was inevidable. Of course, I’m using my native language of ColdFusion to do the project.
I’ve found several command line solutions ranging in price from $600 to $1000, which seems pretty reasonable considering how easy they seem to implement. Of course, the added cost to the price tag makes the client lean towards finding an open source solution. Quite frankly, if one exists and is simple to use in a Windows server environment, I’m all for it.
I found FFMPEG and it looks like it can be compiled to run on Windows. I’ve even found Windows executables. I was just wondering if anyone knows of any current uses of FFMPEG that exist on the Windows platform that they can point me to so I can test out the performance. Anyone? Anyone?
Kevin said,
Wrote on June 20, 2008 @ 12:22 pm
I think VLC does FFMPEG encoding, and also allows for command-line encoding.