One thing I have found with witango and external actions, is to NOT
run them from a share or server, always on local disk. This helps
minimize witango crashing, if you run them off of anything other than
local disk, tons of problems.
This is also why I wrote my own wrappers around external actions to
deal with some of these shortcomings.
If you are running witango on windows, ffmpeg can be a bear. But not
so bad on linux. If it is real important to you, one thing I did
before I made the complete conversion over to php, was to just setup
a couple of php servers. I would write special functions on them, as
webservices that witango could call. So I could get php funtionality
that witango didn't have, in witango by calling a webservice.
So, you could ingest the movie in witango, save it to a common share.
Hit a webservice on the php server that uses ffmpeg-php and pass in
the location of the movie file. The webservice can just send you back
the thumbnail, or the location of the thumbnail.
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Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
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On Sep 11, 2007, at 6:05 AM, Rick Sanders wrote:
I looked into ffmpeg and it’s a monster to install and configure
properly. On top of it I have to recompile it on the server end to
capture a frame and then turn it into a thumbnail.
Since I don’t have a week to figure it out, the customer will have
to upload their own thumbs until something better comes out.
And, WiTango really doesn’t like external actions much either. My
experience has been that WiTango is waiting for the action to
finish, even after the action is finished. So, basically it waits
for the bus, the bus comes and leaves and it’s still waiting for
it! That’s what causes the server to hang and not respond anymore.
Imagepick is another hard program to understand, install, and
configure. I have CF components from Adobe Exchange for CF that do
the image resize much simpler. I wish there was a WiTango exchange!
Kind regards,
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Rick Sanders
President
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From: Robert Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: September 10, 2007 4:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Thumbnails from videos
ffmpeg, like imagemagick can be used from just about any
application server with some work. You have to be careful calling
out external actions like these though, I have found that it can
cause witango server to enter that, "I am crashed, but you can't
tell state".
--
Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/
On Sep 10, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Robert Garcia wrote:
There is even a php front end, to do just this.
http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/
--
Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/
On Sep 10, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Rick Sanders wrote:
Hey list viewers,
I’m wondering if there is a software out there that will create
screen caps (thumbnails) from videos. I am creating a site that
users will upload videos to, but it would be cool if thumbnails
could be created on the fly instead of having the site admin create
the thumbnails himself with a desktop software.
Thanks!
Rick
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