What is FFMPEG hosting ?

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  1. Tigger New Member

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    Can anyone give me a good explanation of what FFMPEG hosting is ? And why someone would want it ?
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  3. tulipkiya Member

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    FFMPEG is a package installed your webhost.....that will help you run video share website.....basically what ffmpeg does is ...it converts the video formats to flv so that it can be played..online....as simple as that..
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    If you'd like more detailed information just go to ffmpeg dot org.

    Why someone would want it. Quite simply because other streaming solutions from Adobe and other providers are extremely expensive. I've heard of one software package being around $30k.

    Whereas with ffmpeg - all you need is some custom php software that you might be able to hack together for $100, and a host with ffmpeg installed.
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    There are many website which allow FFmpeg scripts at cheap cost check ClipBucket.com

    FFMPEG Hosting:

    The FFMPEG hosting is not anything but a collection of audio and video related programs and software’s, which are used to convert, stream and record them. If you want to make an audio and video based community website, then it is required that you make sure whether the web hosting service provider is using the FFMPEG Web Hosting or not. Only with the features provided by the FFMPEG Web Hosting, you will be able to run the video and audio files in various formats. Mostly, these are the programs written in C or C++ language. It has the ability to operate over numerous and various platforms, using the cross-platform operating system.
    Why is FFMPEG hosting is required?
    Generally, every website differs from another, depending upon the contents. Some websites are exclusively for articles, some are for images, some for reviews and some for general information. Some of the websites are truly for video sharing such as Google Video and YouTube. If you consider starting with a video sharing website, then it is truly impossible, difficult and impractical to provide rapid, sound and quality services to people by hosting with the standard featured web-servers while adding and sharing the videos. Everyone knows that uploading and sharing a video needs more bandwidth and multiple software’s to run over the server. For this purpose, the FFMPEG web hosting feature is required.
    The applications provided by the FFMPEG are as follows; it enables to stream the video and audio sharing website proficiently and efficiently, convenient to convert the video and audio files to other formats, competent to perform the encoding and decoding functions on video and audio files, enables to host some of the video and audio related software’s and programs.
    For all these reasons, you need to confirm whether if the company you are opting for the web hosting services are offering the FFMPEG web hosting to support video and audio community based website or not. Of course, ensuring that the web hosting company is providing such features in the web hosting plans is a tough and difficult job to do. If you are able to find the service provider who is providing all the required features, you need to make sure if the server of that company works efficiently and quickly.
  6. jphilipson New Member

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    And your host should also have the FFMPEG PHP module installed as well.
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    I am looking for FFMPEG hosting for my website -- any good hosting that you guys recommend?
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    Please drop me a PM, if you know of one. Thank you
  9. ahtivas New Member

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    Fast Forward MPEG - FFMPEG is a collection of free assorted softwares that helps to upload, convert and stream video and audio files. Me to searching for video hosting, if find any ill drop a PM.
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    Nice useful information sharing about FFMPEG hostin.
  11. m2hkatie Member

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    Hello coolhearts,

    Nice details, thanks for this. :)
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    perfect explanation, couldn't of said it better myself..
  13. geethaa New Member

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    FFmpeg Hosting allows you to stream media and share video with youtube video sharing scripts. FFmpeg will convert types of video such as .wmv and .mpg to .flv video format which allows the video to be streamed online.

    For more details on FFMpeg Hosting, please visit:
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    hioxindia.com
     
  14. Zinhost New Member

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    Its a special hosting for online video sharing websites.
  15. rshosting New Member

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    FFmpeg is a technology avaialble free of charge for Linux servers (although available for Windows as well, but stable on Linux servers), which allows you to host videos on your website. Its a collection of applications that convert your videos to .flv format to be played online in browser. In simple terms, you can have your videos hosted similar to the way you do it on Youtube.

    Its quite a resource consuming application and often webhosts avoid offering it on shared hosting. However, there are few that do allow ffmpeg on their shared servers. There are several free and paid applications available such as phpmotion, vshare, clipshare etc. that give you a control panel - or a frontend to execute ffmpeg commands and convert your videos to .flv and host them on your website.
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    FFMPEG is a anthology of complimentary various software’s to help toward upload, exchange and tributary video and audio documentation. Me to searching for video hosting, if come across any Ill drop a PM.
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    If you are finding FFMPEG hosting better way you make sure that your web host supporting PHP motion script as well, which beneficial if you are going to build website like as Youtube, DailyMotion etc...............
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    Well, since you will be using FFMPEG hosting for hosting media files i will advice you to go with high hosting plans which can support heavy video/audio files processing. Media files requires huge processing & server resources hence a VPS or a dedicated server is recommended for an well establish website.
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    If you are planning to host it on shared or reseller plans, I don't think it will be possible, as most of the providers will not allow you to host it on shared, as they may affect other websites hosted on it due to the huge resource utilization. Hence, any VPS or semi-dedicated server is recommended for using such applications.
  20. ServerSea Moderator

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    FFmpeg hosting is a term that is used to refer to any "assortment of software which is available free, which helps in recording, converting and streaming a digital video or an audio", and to those domain registrars and web hosting companies which provide the above assortment of software to video hosting services. It is known as FFmpeg hosting due to the usage by several video hosting services of the FFmpeg software library in the server-side conversion of files with variously-encoded video and audio formats into a single preferred video or audio format that is both playable from the video hosting service and embeddable into any offsite webpage.

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