What is FFMPEG hosting ?

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  1. jaikanth12 Member

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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 ...FFmpeg hosting includes the FFmpeg software module that is pre installed. This hosting service helps in uploading and converting video format and streamlining videos to website and user resources. Web hosting options that do not include this technology find that it is either impossible or difficult to upload and share videos on regular web hosting platforms. FFmpeg hosting options allow consumers to log onto to a specific site, upload a video that is then transferred to the FFmpeg hosting server that converts the file into a format that can be viewed and downloaded by another user.
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    Usually this type of hosting is used on many sharing websites like YouTube and also on Google as they have a section of videos as well. It is also becoming quite popular on the many social networks these days where in the number of people are being listed and most of them are uploading videos.
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    FFMPEG hosting enables you to convert the video to a video format or to .flv format. It supports scripts like PHPmotion, Clipshare, Youtube, Clones scripts, Rayzz Scripts and many more.
    A good example is the very popular PHPMotion video sharing script.
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    Typically, FFmpeg web hosting is used by video sharing sites like Google video and YouTube. It is also a feature that is required for social networking sites that allow users to share various videos that they might want to upload. In most cases, the features that accompany FFmpeg hosting are MySQL, FFmpeg, PHP 5.2.9, FFmpeg PHP, Mplayer and Mencoder. The Libogg, GD library, Libvorbis and flytool are also included.
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    You've probably heard of ffmpeg-php and it's wide usability mostly in sites that involve with videos such as YouTube or any other similar site. Here's a bit of an introduction to it and how to use it.


    First thing, you've got to check that your web hosting provider actually has ffmpeg & ffmpeg-php extension installed on your account and then you could get started with ffmpeg. You can check if it's installed by creating a PHP script and executing the following code:


    extension_loaded(’ffmpeg’) or die(”ffmpeg extension not loaded”);


    If you get ffmpeg extension not loaded then your web hosting provider does not have ffmpeg installed, if you get nothing, then you're on the good track!
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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. As of 2010, the preferred format for the presentation of converted video is the .mp4 format.
    FFmpeg-friendly webhosting

    While there are thousands of web hosting services on the World Wide Web, only a tiny, but growing minority of these webhosts are willing to allow or accommodate video and audio hosting services, due to the rapid takeup of both bandwidth and disk space by user-uploaded video. The creation of video hosting services which sprung up in the years since the 2005 founding of YouTube, however, has created a demand for video-hosting friendly web hosts.
    Basic needs from FFmpeg hosts

    Most video hosting services need a dedicated or semi-dedicated server from the FFmpeg host, with shared bandwidth and virtual servers being sub-optimal continues.
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    FFmpeg hosting includes the FFmpeg software module that is pre installed. This hosting service helps in uploading and converting video format and streamlining videos to website and user resources. Web hosting options that do not include this technology find that it is either impossible or difficult to upload and share videos on regular web hosting platforms. FFmpeg hosting options allow consumers to log onto to a specific site, upload a video that is then transferred to the FFmpeg hosting server that converts the file into a format that can be viewed and downloaded by another user.
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    As far as I know FFmpeg is an extension of php which is used for movie purpose.
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    FFmpeg hosting includes the FFmpeg software module that is pre installed. This hosting service helps in uploading and converting video format and streamlining videos to website and user resources.
    FFmpeg hosting options allow consumers to log onto to a specific site, upload a video that is then transferred to the FFmpeg hosting server that converts the file into a format that can be viewed and downloaded by another user.
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    FFMPEG hosting allows you to create your own video sharing website.
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    [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]To Install FFmpeg + FFmpeg-PHP + Mplayer + Mencoder + flv2tool + LAME MP3 Encoder, there are several automated scripts available that install FFMPEG for you but you may find difficult to track a problem if something goes wrong. The better way is to install everything manually so that you can keep track of errors and resolve it. [/FONT]

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