Third party video encoding

[Magnus Wahlberg]

Hi

I have been following the development of video support for sometime, and if I understand it correctly, trovebox now has support for video. The only part that is lacking is the encoding.

Trovebox.com uses Amazons elastic transcoder for the encoding, and it is my understanding that the team is not to fond of the idea of adding encoding support to the "core".

Would it be possible to replace the Amazons elastic transcoder with another third party encoder for use in the community edition? One i had in mind is the Codem (http://www.transcodem.com/), codem is a open source encoding "service". It's built with ffmpeg and has a REST api, you can define presets, send notifications and so forth.

Is this a horrible idea or something can be done?

/Magnus

[Jaisen Mathai]

You're right. We are using AWS for transcoding. In all honesty I think the best way for most people to do it is by using ffmpeg installed locally on the machine. While it's entirely possible to do it how we did with AWS there's a lot of moving parts and setup to handle callbacks and whatnot.

We (walkah) added video support entirely through a plugin. That seemed to work pretty well.

If you're interested in tackling this then find the Github issue (or create one if it doesn't exist) and let's discuss the implementation details there before you start. The web frontend already knows how to handle a video if it's set up properly in the system.

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