Hello,

My hosting company doesn't allow ffmpeg on the servers (nor the ffmpeg php module) and I was wondering if media mover would support the idea of letting users upload movies to the 'internet' server, trigger an 'offsite' server (for instance my home server that runs 24/24) to download the movie from the internet server locally, convert it with ffmpeg to a flash movie and then upload it again to the 'internet' server.

Thus the idea is to let my homecomputer do the convertion but have the flash movie back on the server of my hosting company.

I'm only starting to develop for drupal and I don't know all the subsystems yet like the cronjob thing,... that's why I post this support question. I'm currently learning drupal by writing a custom gallery-like module and I would like movie support also. Having all user-uploaded movies (of different styles: divx, mpeg,...) converted to one flash-like style would probably benefit the user experience of the site.

Thanks,
Trogie

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arthurf commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Hi Trogie-
Media mover is intended to do exactly this kind of thing, however the sub modules that would be needed to do this haven't been written yet- that being said, it would be fairly trivial to write a module to push the uploaded files elsewhere and then have them reharvested.

If you'd be interested on working on such a module, please let me know.

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trogie commented

Hello again,

Yes I'm planning to start working on such a module but I first have to finish a few other projects as that offsite media mover module is not priority yet. I'll inform you when I have some more 'free' time :-)

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that0n3guy commented

This post is very old and states that it is closed (so I dont even know if my post is going to show up)

I just was wondering if this sort of thing ever got created for media mover?

Thanks

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that0n3guy commented

I just noticed that the OpenPackage Video module (http://drupal.org/project/op_video) has the ability to upload a video to there remote servers and they will transcode it for you and then transfer it back to the server. Could some code from this module be used to guide someone in writing a helper module for media mover?

I am not a coder so it would take me forever to figure this out.