I spend some time to create a special tool for converting clips to a format which is compatible with CKeditor SWF and JW Player.

In detail it is a DOS batch, developed under Windows XP (should work with Vista/Win7 too). The tool handels all the stuff around converting one or more movies using ffmpeg and mencoder.

Main focus is producing CKeditor SWF compatible clips in a handy way.

Features:
- supports explorer context menu (right click -> convert)
- supports batch processing (one folder or recursive) in a automatic or semi interactive way
- supports profiles (quality, scale, audio/video codecs)
- supports rotation
- preview for quality/rotation check
- playback of original and converted movie
- can store converted clips in original or one given folder
- can skip allready existing files
- can overwrite existing files

The download comes with mencoder and ffmpeg included and should be placed in the folder c:\programme\ffmpeg
You may want or have to get different versions of ffmpeg and mencoder compiled for your CPU.
Make sure to have a quick look into moconv.txt for instructions!

Any feedback is welcome.

download location: http://www.knil.de/system/files/oeffentlich%20lesen/moconv.zip

have fun!
knil

Comments

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anrikun commented

Nice job knil!
I'll give it a try.

I would be great to put this in a module so that user can convert files uploaded through IMCE.

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knil commented

Thanks antikun. :-)
But how do you think to put moconv into a drupal module? It is a Win32 batch and needs mencoder and ffmpeg. If you think about converting on server side with this, it will only work on Win32 webservers. And: There is another module (I think it is called flashnode), that is able to convert on server side. Because my provider does not allow ffmpeg on server side I picked CKeditor SWF. Because converting to a real compatible H.264 flash FLV is quite complex I decided to create moconv.

Anyway: If you want to use this in a modul just do it.

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anrikun commented

I may be possible to convert your Win32 batch into some PHP code that would exec commands (like the ImageMagickAPI module is doing).
Anyway a client side tool is great too!