Rails ands Video Conversion

[CHeeSeBLiND]

Does anyone have any tips regarding converting movie files into flv files using rails?

I've achieved this before using PHP and ffmpeg but I was wondering if there were any plugins that might be handy or any tutorials?

[paulgb]

ffmpeg is a command-line application, and the PHP extension is just a wrapper for the command-line application. Since ruby can execute external programs (I forget the exact code at the moment, but it may be exec?) You can find ffmpeg's command line options.. ffmpeg --help should list these options.

[Fenrir2]

# executes the command, prints to stdxxx
system "command here"

# executes the command and returns the output in a string
result = `command here`

[vgarcia]

ffmpeg and flvtool2 are what you want to look up.

I'd seriously consider doing this as an "offline" process though, separate from your Rails app, since a big video could take a very long time to convert.