It’s not ready for the plugin codex. Would still like to work out a few issues before that. The difficulty with FFMPEG right now is one of the hang-ups. There also isn’t a configuration page, everything is done by modifying the code, which is the wrong way to do it. I would like to get it to the wordpress plugin codex sometime though.

would you add your plugin to the wordpress plugin codex? Or is it too advanced for that?

Would be nice to be able to install it right from inside WP. :-9

local encoding service ?

http://codergrid.de/

encoding.com has API, heywatch.com has API but you know these things are so expensive for a normal user,

” script going through the videos uploaded to see what has been uploaded ”

would be nice, i figured in the plug-in if i change the width height videos will all be re-encoded

doesn’t plug-in already provide that ” some sort of queue ” ?

“This would decouple the encoding from the WordPress plugin”

just like my idea ! i was thinking to remove the need for WP in order to encode or upload, i was thinking to somehow take that plug-in process outside and do it under some type of system service setup then we can just upload or ftp whatever into that folder and when completes we can view that in Media Library, from there we can just post as normal,

i think a service setup is pretty much good

i think this could probably be done on python or bash scripting im reading bash can also use mysql so inserting new records i think for encoding should work :O

http://www.edlsystems.com/shellsql/

What do you think?

This would decouple the encoding from the WordPress plugin, which would be great to do. That way it doesn’t really matter how the videos get there. Would be extra awesome if the Media Library would show any videos in the upload folder, so you could FTP them yourself, and they would show up in WordPress’ Media Library…

#!/bin/bash
# ffmpeg and mencoder script
# Grab thumb from avi, start encoding to ITU h264 using mencoder, ffmpeg is doing thumb processing

# Bash script for operating system Ubuntu 8.10
# packages used : FFMPEG, MENCODER ,MPLAYER ENCODING ENGINE
# VIDEO CODEC ITU H264 AUDIO MP3

# Written by FakeOutdoorsman and updated by mysoogal
# Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported
# http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/deed.en
# trackback http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=960627

# Location of source videos
sourcelocation=”/home/yugo/Desktop/video/”
# Extension of source videos
sourceext=”avi”

# grab thumbs hehehe ! yahhoo hope this works!
find ${sourcelocation} -iname “*${sourceext}” -exec ffmpeg -v 0 -y -i {} -vframes 1 -ss 90 -vcodec mjpeg -f rawvideo -s 286×160 -aspect 16:9 {}.jpg \;
# Check to see if videos were encoded, then delete source vids and shutdown
if [ -e "${sourcelocation}*.ogm" ] && [ -e "${sourcelocation}*.jpg" ]; then
# Delete videos
rm ${sourcelocation}*.ogm
# Sleep for 10 seconds before shutting down
sleep 10
# Shutdown computer
# sudo shutdown -h now
else
echo “Encoding FAILED”
fi

# Convert all video clips to ITU H264 OGM video container
find ${sourcelocation} -iname “*${sourceext}” -exec mencoder {} -o {}.ogm -af volume=10 -aspect 16:9 -of avi -noodml -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=300:level_idc=41:bframes=3:frameref=2: nopsnr: nossim: pass=1: threads=auto -oac mp3lame \;

exit

it automates the video encoding process and gets jpg then sends to some other folder or etc i wonder if this can be used instead, this way you have many methods to upload to wordpress, it could be ftp, curl,wget etc the file just needs to be in the uploads folder. hmm this way remote uploads and other limiting factors are taken out

makes any sense,