+1 from here to. I've used it to automatically convert any video to a fixed size flash video and hacked it into the Joomla/ JCE media manager. Works absolutely fine and the video production company that commissioned it found the video quality acceptable.
HTH, Jochen On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Harvey Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yep, 10 years ago I was using Installshield to write install routines, > and it was pretty hard work. I gave up on Installshield and opted for a > free script-based installer which was much easier to use, and the output > looked basically the same to the end user. > > Isn't is generally accepted that a little bit of developer pain is ok, > providing the outcome is better / easier for the end user? > > Anyway, before this thread runs it's natural course, I'd like to give a > +1 for ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php. Once I got it installed, it worked just > like the book said it would, and I was plesantly surprised at how fast > it is at grabbing individual frames out of movies. If you are doing > anything more complicated than the odd Youtube clip here and there, this > is well worth looking into (if you have your own box of course). > > Harvey. > > Don Gould wrote: >> Perhaps it's time you wrote a windows app then did the installer for >> it... don't know what they're like now, but 10 years back it could take >> days to get the installer set up right to include all the right files >> and code so that it would install faultlessly on a windows box. >> >> Linux is leaping forward much faster than Windows did. I suspect that >> install issues will be a thing of the past in 10 yrs. >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
