Believe me, I agree with you that knowledge should be free. And in fact it is quite astounding the amount of free information that is out there already... with a little googling expertise I'm sure you can find several FLV encoders that can be used on the server side for exactly the purpose you want. Of course, video is tricky and to really do it welll and be able to convert just about anything out there... well that ain't easy and you run into lots of trouble with proprietary codecs. The best you can probably do without some serious heavy lifting is use something like FFmpeg or Mplayer as both of those can be scripted through Shell commands. They don't necessarily convert *everything* but they can do a lot.
Simply asking YouTube or Audioblog how they do it won't likely yield answers as its not really in their interest to provide that information to you. Microsoft and Channel 9 are in a much different position than these other two services. Microsoft is educating developers on how to use Microsoft's tools -- how to develop for the Windows platform with Microsoft core technologies. That is definitely in Microsoft's interest, and they certainly wouldn't do it otherwise. -josh On 9/8/05, Markus Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Kinberg wrote: > > >YouTube and Audioblog are proprietary services. Why should they give > >away their trade secrets because you want to build a competing > >service? I don't understand... > > > > > > perhaps understanding breads customer trust and loyalty? > consider microsoft's channel 9 > > things are changing > knowledge is becoming a commodity > what kind of power is knowledge, if everyone has it? > > often the big proprietary secret knowledge is simply how easy it was to > do something > > markus > > -- > > My name is Markus Sandy and I am app.etitio.us > > http://apperceptions.org > http://digitaldojo.blogspot.com > http://spinflow.org > http://wearethemedia.com > http://www.corante.com/events/feedfest/ > > aim/ichat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > skype: msandy > spin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
