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Dec
6
(2006)
Dreamhost rocks. I mean, they just keep piling on awesome new features into their hosting package. Recently, it was essentially infinite bandwidth and storage. Yesterday, they added an automatic Flash video transcoder and presenter, ala YouTube. But, within any Dreamhost site.
All I have to do is upload a video file (.avi, .mov, .mp4) to my site, tell Dreamhost I want it converted to Flash video (using the panel.dreamhost.com site that’s used for managing everything else as well), and their magic elves do their work and email me a javascript snippet to embed a flash player in any web page (or blog post). Like, for instance, this one:
[flv:http://www.darcynorman.net/video/banffdaylight_640x320.flv 640 320]
It seems to choke on some video formats (it didn’t like my screencast at all – perhaps it’s not able to deal with the H.264 video encoding or AAC audio encoding…)
Now, if only Dreamhost would solve the intermittent MySQL performance suckage, things would be perfect!
Yeah Dreamhost! I gotta try this when I get home with some videos of the little one. I also seem to have days where my WordPress and Gallery installations don’t seem to exactally “fly”. I’m not as technical as you nor do I have as complex a site, but I agree. Dreamhost, improve MySQL performance!
Dunno… I’m assuming they just wrote a wrapper for ffmpeg or some other library… It’s currently not very integrated or Web 2.0 – you just manually provide a filename via the Panel UI and it tries sometime later to process the file…
Do you know how Dreamhost pulls this off? I would love to implement this kind of movie-to-Flash conversion on our intranet.
My Elgg installation chokes on Dreamhost, perhaps due to mySQL problems that you mentioned. Check out http://mapalumni.org for an example.
Richard
Movie to FLV is easy:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/FFmpeg
However, movie-to-movie (re-encoding uploaded movies to H.264+AAC) hasn’t been as easy for me. I appear to have mpeg4 video working with ffmpeg, but am still having problems getting aac audio encoded. If anybody knows how to get that working (ffmpeg will compile with faac, but then only allows decoding), please drop me an email at rusty [at] gapodcastnetwork.com. Thanks!