YourTube Using open source software to create your own video sharing site

The Process Upload video and its tags to the server Convert video to flash video format Create a thumbnail of the video Add FLV metadata Embed the flash video into a flash container Put them all into a html file Add the tag-cloud/search/hot or not features Serve the html or only the flash container

Upload video and its tags to the server

Convert video to flash video format

Create a thumbnail of the video

Add FLV metadata

Embed the flash video into a flash container

Put them all into a html file

Add the tag-cloud/search/hot or not features

Serve the html or only the flash container

This session is about Upload video and its tags to the server Convert video to flash video format Create a thumbnail of the video Add FLV metadata Embed the flash video into a flash container Put them all into a html file Add the tag-cloud/search/hot or not features Serve the html or only the flash container

Upload video and its tags to the server

Convert video to flash video format

Create a thumbnail of the video

Add FLV metadata

Embed the flash video into a flash container

Put them all into a html file

Add the tag-cloud/search/hot or not features

Serve the html or only the flash container

How can we do it using OSS Video conversion, thumbnail creation FFMPEG (LGPL parts of it are under GPL) Adding FLV metadata flvtool2 (BSD License) Flash container FlowPlayer (Apache License V2.0)

Video conversion, thumbnail creation

FFMPEG (LGPL parts of it are under GPL)

Adding FLV metadata

flvtool2 (BSD License)

Flash container

FlowPlayer (Apache License V2.0)

FFMPEG FFmpeg is an audio/video conversion tool. It includes libavcodec, the leading open source codec library. An experimental streaming server for live broadcasts is also included. Can be downloaded from http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/download.html

FFmpeg is an audio/video conversion tool.

It includes libavcodec, the leading open source codec library.

An experimental streaming server for live broadcasts is also included.

Can be downloaded from http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/download.html

How to use FFMPEG File conversion ffmpeg -i [videofile] -acodec mp3 -ar 22050 -ab 32 -f flv -s 320×240 [flashfile.flv] Create Thumbnail ffmpeg -y -i [videofile] -vframes 1 -ss 00:00:02 -an -vcodec png -f rawvideo -s 320×240 [thumbnailimage.png]

File conversion

ffmpeg -i [videofile] -acodec mp3 -ar 22050 -ab 32 -f flv -s 320×240 [flashfile.flv]

Create Thumbnail

ffmpeg -y -i [videofile] -vframes 1 -ss 00:00:02 -an -vcodec png -f rawvideo -s 320×240 [thumbnailimage.png]

Adding FLV metadata Whats the meta-information duration, frames, etc. FLV movie players use this information to calculate progress bar sliders and allow the user to fast-forward or reverse through the video

Whats the meta-information

duration, frames, etc.

FLV movie players use this information to calculate progress bar sliders and allow the user to fast-forward or reverse through the video

FLVTool2 FLVTool2 is a manipulation tool for Macromedia Flash Video files FLVTool2 can be downloaded from http://rubyforge.org/projects/flvtool2 Adding metadata flvtool2 -U [flvfile]

FLVTool2 is a manipulation tool for Macromedia Flash Video files

FLVTool2 can be downloaded from http://rubyforge.org/projects/flvtool2

Adding metadata

flvtool2 -U [flvfile]

FlowPlayer FlowPlayer is a video player for Flash Video in FLV format. You can easily embed it into HTML pages. It can be downloaded from http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/download.html

FlowPlayer is a video player for Flash Video in FLV format.

You can easily embed it into HTML pages.

It can be downloaded from http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/download.html

Embed into html <div style=&quot;textalign:center; width:100%;&quot;> <object type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;263&quot; id=&quot;FlowPlayer&quot; data=&quot;/flowplayer/FlowPlayer.swf&quot;> <param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;sameDomain&quot; /> <param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;/flowplayer/FlowPlayer.swf&quot; /> <param name=&quot;quality&quot; value=&quot;high&quot; /> <param name=&quot;scale&quot; value=&quot;noScale&quot; /> <param name=&quot;wmode&quot; value=&quot;transparent&quot; /> <param name=&quot;flashvars&quot; value=&quot;baseURL=/showvideo&videoFile=flashfile.flv&autoPlay=false&bufferLength=5&loop=false&progressBarColor1=0xAAAAAA&progressBarColor2=0x555555&autoBuffering=false&splashImageFile=clicktoplay.jpg&hideControls=false&quot; /> </object> <h2>Your Video</h2> </div>

Resources http:// ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu / http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/10/08/lighttpd-memcoder-flvtool-for-streaming/ http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net / http://www.progettosinergia.com/flashvideo/flashvideoblog.htm http://open4all.info/ossa/_Live_Flash_Stream_via_FFMPEG http://www.osflash.org/ffmpeg http://soenkerohde.com/tutorials/ffmpeg http://klaus.geekserver.net/flash/streaming.html http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2006/02/13/publishing-flash-videos-with-free-open-source-tools.html

http:// ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu /

http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/10/08/lighttpd-memcoder-flvtool-for-streaming/

http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net /

http://www.progettosinergia.com/flashvideo/flashvideoblog.htm

http://open4all.info/ossa/_Live_Flash_Stream_via_FFMPEG

http://www.osflash.org/ffmpeg

http://soenkerohde.com/tutorials/ffmpeg

http://klaus.geekserver.net/flash/streaming.html

http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2006/02/13/publishing-flash-videos-with-free-open-source-tools.html

Profit! Thanks to Daniel - http://blog.go4teams.com/?p=56