Converting Videos with Rails: Converting the Video

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

So you’ve installed FFMPEG. Now it’s time to move onto converting the video. For this we’re going to be using a couple of plugins.
Paperclip
We will be using the paperclip plugin to upload the videos onto our server. Details of how to install paperclip can be found in my previous article: Paperclip: Attaching Files in Rails. [...]

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Converting Videos with Rails: Installing FFMPEG

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

This is the first of a three part series covering how to convert videos using the marvellous FFMPEG library. Video converison is a must have if you are planning on creating a social network site.
In this part I’ll be covering how to install FFMPEG on Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04).
Install FFMPEG Dependencing
First off, you need to [...]

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Building a Social Network Site in Rails

Friday, April 25th, 2008

I’m not going to cover how to actually code an entire social network site in rails as all social network sites vary in their functionality (and it’ll take too long). I will cover plugins and other things you might find useful though.
Quick Start
If you don’t really want to do the coding but want to get [...]

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