Posted by Rob Anderton on February 22nd, 2009 @ 22:36 – 41 comments
Updated on February 22nd, 2009 @ 22:42
Tagged with video
We’ve spent the last few weeks working on a new Rails app for a film and photography site and, as you might expect from my recent posts, we’re using Paperclip to handle file uploads.
Without any more effort than a script/install of Paperclip we get thumbnailing of images and PDFs, but what about thumbnailing the video files that will be uploaded to the site? Enter FFmpeg.
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Posted by Chris Anderton on March 12th, 2008 @ 11:16 – 4 comments
Updated on March 12th, 2008 @ 11:40
Tagged with video
We're currently working on a project where we handle a lot of images and videos. Rather than handle these ourselves, we wanted to make use of the heavyweight's infrastructure where possible - this meant Flickr for images and YouTube for video.. but there was one snag - we couldn't upload video via the API. There were 'hacks' available, but we don't like to build solutions on unsupported features.
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