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Update

Ok now it has all been officialy announced here at work I can finaly update this blog.

I have been offered a new job with Psycle Interactive, as such I have given notice with my current employers Visium Group.

Now I can update you with the current situation, I know many of you are still waiting for the next part of the “Build Your Own HD Youtube” tutorial, but as you can appreciate I have been a little busy with documentation pending my departure of Visium Group.

So for the next couple of weeks at least updates to this blog will be sporadic.

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Easynet Outage

Oh dear oh dear …

It would appear this morning easynet is have some major issues reporting a major network outage on their status page: https://support.uk.easynet.net/support_status.aspx

Looks to me like a piece of downed routing equipment, for me at least any traffic routing via 67.17.198.202 black holes and the connection dies horribly.

Some bad routing setup there …

67.17.198.202 is listed as being in Georgia Atlanta (33.7271 -84.5785) (source: https://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_ip).

When trying to access some .co.uk domains on known UK geo IP’s, I am getting routed via a dead US link …. nice …

Well, I wouldn’t want a boring easy friday now would I?

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Flowplayer for Wordpress

Whilst I wait for a reply here: https://community.flowplayer.org/node/1051

I am making version 0.1 of this plugin available.

Installation

  • Unzip wpfp
  • Upload to /wp-content/plugins/

Usage

  • Make a new directory in the root of wordpress called “videos”
  • Upload streaming media (.flv, .mp4) to /videos/
  • In the wordpress panel (/wp-admin/) under plugins activate “Flowplayer for Wordpress”
  • Write a post and add the tag (see example: here) *
  • Where “media.flv” is your video file, 600 and 450 are the width and height to make the flash player in the page.

Notes

The version of flowplayer provided with this plugin is version 2.2.2 and is provided under the GPL license as specified by the authors of flowplayer (https://flowplayer.org/).

I am not the author or owner of flowplayer as such all copyright for flowplayer remains that of the respective parties.

I am the author of the included flowplayer.php file and have made this available under the Creative Commons license similar to the GPL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk

If the authors of flowplayer object to the distribution of their works under the original GPL license, I reserve the right to remove the download of this plugin*

  • Whilst GPL does allow for me to legally redistribute the “free software” under the original license.

Remember this is version 0.1 as such this only uses the flowplayer minimum embed code, support for playlists etc has not yet been added, depending on the popularity of this plugin I may continue to work on it to provide full access to the flowplayer features (https://flowplayer.org/player/advanced.html).

Please leave a comment with feedback.

wpfp Download

As pointed out by Mons PHP 4.x does not support the intial release of this plugin.

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FFMPEG Build Your Own HD YouTube - Update

Well the intrest in this subject seems to be picking up!

I am currently researching two pass encoding using libx264 and libfaac to allow low bitrate (fast loading) HD streaming.

As I figure this out you can see the results here: https://blog.oneiroi.co.uk/linux/very-basic-c-gdb-tutorial

The embeding is handeled using a wordpress plugin I have written, I will make this available shortly.

I will be getting part one “FFMPEG” installation up today regardless.

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FFMPEG Build Your Own HD YouTube - Introduction

The thing that has realy annoyed me lately is the lack of documentation to be found for FFMPEG, the documentation you can find is by way of MAN pages, and makes the assumption you allready know all the terms that go with video encoding.

Well I am to change that.

Over the next few days I will be producing a Video set “Build your own HD YouTube” covering installation of FFMPEG, to building a basic PHP front end (without using PHP-FFMPEG), and finaly a summary covering methods you should use if you want to use the methods covered in a production envrionment.