What is FFmpeg and what you can do with it. You can create your own video sharing website (like youtube)

1. Lunch and Learn
FFmpeg
Solution to record, convert and stream audio video
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2. Video
● Picture can express a thousand words
● How about video?
● Ffmpeg
– Audio/Video conversion tool
– Incudes libavcodec, the leading open
source codec library

3. Why FFmpeg?
● Open Source
● http://www.ffmpeg.org/
● http://ffmpegx.com/ (GUI-based ffmpeg for
mac os x)
● Can be used as command-line tool
● Can be used as library (.so or .dll)
– Java Native Interface (JNI)
– Java Native Access (JNA)

4. ffmpegX

5. What can FFmpeg do?
● Video conversion
– Store data on standard format
– Compress the video to smaller size
– Provide data to browser with standard
format
● Extract video frame
– Thumbnail creation

6. Usage
● File conversion
– ffmpeg -i [videofile] -acodec mp3 -ar 22050 -ab
32 -f flv -s 320x240 [flashfile.flv]
● Extract video frame
– ffmpeg -y -i [videofile] -vframes 1 -ss 00:00:02
-an -vcodec png -f rawvideo -s 320x240
[thumbnailimage.png]
– ffmpeg -itoffset -4 -i [videofile] -vcodec mjpeg
-vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo 320x240
[thumbnailimage.jpg]

7. Common Video Formats
● avi
● flv
● mov
● wmv
● 3gp
● 3gp2

8. Related Work
● Video thumbnail creation
– Upload video to server
– Frame extraction
– Save image path to Database
– Upload to Amazon (or keep it on server)

9. Possibilities
● Convert video to standard format
– Save spaces
● Player consideration
– Video player using flash
● Custom (create your own flash video
player)
● FlowPlayer http://flowplayer.org (GPL 3)
– Why Flash? Most of browser has Flash
plugins
● You can make youtube like site :-D

10. Thank you