[TriLUG] Avi to flash?

[Peter Long]

Paul,

Another good flv player is
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?about=JW_FLV_Media_Player. I prefer the
default look of it to FlowPlayer. The site has reasonably good docs on how
to use it. I used it on Wordpress not Gallery so I am not sure how hard it
would be to integrate it with your gallery. Wordpress had a plugin for it
which made things much easier. It seems (from this:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:flashvideo) that Gallery already
has a flash module. So maybe all you need is to use ffmpeg to convert the
avi to flv and upload it. I have never used the Gallery Flash Module so I
cannot say how well it works.

Good Luck

Peter Long

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Nolan Caudill <nolan at nolancaudill.com>wrote:

> Paul,
>
> I don't think you are wanting to go directly to Flash. The way youtube and
> all of the other Flash player sites work is that they have a player made
> from Flash (.swf format) that gets fed a video in a format that the Flash
> understands how to play which is the Flash video format (.flv) and, now,
> h.264 encoded mp4s.
>
> I have a suggestion for both the Flash player and the video converter.
>
> For the Flash player, I've had good success with flowplayer (
> http://flowplayer.org/), which is GPL-ed player that has clear
> documentation
> and is fairly visually attractive.
>
> To convert the video, ffmpeg has always done the trick for me. It has a lot
> of intimidatings argument, but usually something like 'ffmpeg movie.avi
> movie.flv' works just fine.
>
> Hope this helps!
> Nolan Caudill
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Paul G. Szabady <paul at thyservice.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Does anyone have experience with converting avi files to flash?  Ideally,
> > I'd like to integrate something into my (menalto) gallery on RH, similar
> to
> > what youtube has.  I've found some youtube-like products, but I'm not
> > interested in a whole new suite.  If the former doesn't exist, the
> ability
> > to convert from avi to flash and upload to a std apache website would
> > suffice.
> >
> > Thoughts / Suggestions?
> >
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