Media on the web

This page is a record of my experiments with open source solutions for media production and conversion.

FFMPEG

http://www.thornock.us/wordpress/archives/172
This page describes how to compile FFMPEG to include the audio encoder to convert to flash movie format (ala YouTube).

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2009-November/022927.html
Apparently, on Ubuntu Karmic there is an issue if you have an nVidia graphics card.
This describes a work around and eludes to a future fix (19-11-2009).

UPDATE: This appears to be fixed now:

git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg
./configure --enable-libmp3lame
make
sudo make install

Then run
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i <some video file> -sameq -acodec=libmp3lame --ar [11025|22050|44100] myclip.swf
and you have a flash video with audio.

Just add
<OBJECT><EMBED SRC="myclip.swf" WIDTH=the_width HEIGHT=the_height></EMBED></OBJECT>
to your HTML page and you have a video in your page

Blender

http://www.rab3d.com/tutorial.html#blender

This is a very good tutorial to doing CAD/CAM in blender

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