Comments on: Converting Videos with Rails: Converting the Video

By: Robin Bortlík

Robin Bortlík — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:05:53 +0000

Thank's a lot. It works great. :)

By: Chard

Chard — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:02:42 +0000

Just a quick reminder, you need to use the swfobjects.js that comes with the flash player zip from JW FLV that you downloaded. Save you some head scratching if you don't see the player loading.

By: Dwi Setiyadi

Dwi Setiyadi — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:29:13 +0000

Hey, it works! amazing!
But i have a problem, why it have a confirmation to overwrite file (already exist) on terminal?
Thanks a lot

By: Zeba

Zeba — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:36:11 +0000

Hi…
I tried implementing this…but my video is not getting uploaded using paperclip.
I have installed paperclip as a gem…as the plugin installation could not be found…
If I use File_column plugin to upload the video it gets uploaded successfully…but the convert function gives an error…!!!!
I cant understand where am I going wrong….
Please can you help me….
Thanks….

By: Sergei

Sergei — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:58:23 +0000

Hello, Jim.

I have a problem – after loading a file on a server, it remains in a folder /tmp with name CGI ***** and nothing occurs… There Are ideas why that occurs? The same most with any loading files in RoR…

Best regards, Sergey…

By: John Yerhot

John Yerhot — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:28:50 +0000

This is a great article.

What where you going to use for background processing? I used backgroundrb a while back and it worked well for my purposes.

Looking forward to part 3!

By: Scott Motte

Scott Motte — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:32:44 +0000

You know what, I think ffmpeg can be installed now (at least on ubuntu hardy) simply via:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

By: Nirvana

Nirvana — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:58:57 +0000

Nice job but I have one issue. I am unable to convert wmv file into flv with ffmpeg. Any suggestion……

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:28:41 +0000

Very nice writeup, I look forward to the next installment. I had some trouble testing uploads. Turns out I'd found my first Rails bug. I'm not holding my breath for the patch to make it into Rails anytime soon since it only applies to Windows, but if anyone's interested, it's available from http://github.com/bryanash/rails/tree Thanks again! Bryan

By: Curtis Miller

Curtis Miller — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:32:02 +0000

Jim, great articles.

I think the old acts_as_state_machine plugin has been replaced by the AASM gem. You can find it over on GitHub:

http://github.com/rubyist/aasm

Keep up the good work!