I just committed a rather nice piece of functionality to the FFmpeg Wrapper module. Files that are attached to Drupal nodes can be transcoded multiple times by a simple interface. Once you find settings that you like, you can attach your transcoded file back to the original node.
Whether you need to create a file for download, create a web-friendly format from a file, or just want to offer a high or low bandwidth versions, any file that is attached to a Drupal node via the upload form and can be transcoded with this tool.
FFmpeg Wrapper puts a link on the file attachments list to the FFmpeg Wrapper testing tool on files that FFmpeg can transcode- which helps identify bad file types quickly.
I did this quick screencast of how this functionality works. Currently the code is in CVS (DRUPAL-5--1-0-ALPHA5), but will be released shortly.
Update: I did some cleanup of the output so it is easier to look at the finished product than what is shown in the screen cast. Changes are in DRUPAL-5--1-0-ALPHA6.
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another option... MuxCloud.com
If you are interested in another approach to transcoding, check out the service I run called Mux. In short, we have an API, along with some sample PHP code (among other languages) that you can use to transcode video with all the primary controls you need: mimetype, framerate, resolution, bitrate, etc...
You can try our free, web-based UI at http://mux.am or learn about our API access at http://muxcloud.com
Best of all, you can use Mux free for low volume transcoding or scale up to your own servers running on Amazon EC2 and S3 if you need more video storage and streaming power than one Drupal box can handle.
Interesting
Though Media Mover does offer S3 integration, along with email and ftp and a number of Drupal specific file harvesting mechanisms, I'm always interested in other solutions- I'd be game to talk integration- looking at the API seems like it could be straight forward to implement for Drupal
output format
how's we can get output format list.... i see on your screencast there's output format list on combobox, but not in mine... i'm using ffmpeg_converter 6.x-1.x-dev and 6.x-1.1-alpha1.
TIA
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