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Adam Evers
Adam Evers

Reputation: 107

Linux video conversion

I'm attempting to create a simple video conversion app which accepts any video format and then formats it into the desired format "automagically" all while attempting to keep aspect ratio and sound quality consistent. I do a ton of video converting and it would be handy for me to just shoot it off to a server to do all the converting while I work on other projects.

After some research it looks like FFMPEG is my best bet ...

Anyone have any thoughts? Is there a open source project that has already done this / code that I might have missed or looked over?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 204

Answers (2)

sehe
sehe

Reputation: 392833

I donot recommend hosting such a service yourself. I think you should be able to find 'off-the-shelf' cloud provider with 'instant' transcoding machines on-demand.

You are not looking for application hosting, such as GAE, you are looking for P aaS (Platform as a Service), such as Azure, AWS EC2; Here is a good comparison:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/64727/windows-azure-vs-amazon-ec2-vs-google-app-engine (note the answer by a GAE developer).

Basically, PaaS should be able to deliver you computing units (where you are specifically expected to utilize the full CPU (etc) potential of the instance - after that, you just terminate the instance; you pay by the hour, and you scale up as required; You can equally good run 1 small instance for a month, or run 60 large instances for a few hours and work out the financial equation).

I do remember seeing pre-existing cloud images precisely for doing video transcoding - don't remember where exactly, but look around at rightscale.com (which works with Rackspace and EC2 IIRC, perhaps more these days).

Upvotes: 1

Matt Joiner
Matt Joiner

Reputation: 118470

ffmpeg is easily the best choice for this. I use ffmpeg in my Python DLNA Digital Media Server to convert video files of any kind to the type expected by my television.

I've had a play with VLC's dummy interface, and mencoder, and neither came close to ffmpeg's usability.

Upvotes: 0

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