FIRSTTube! - Are you tube enough?

[SSMike]

Great Idea Pavan. Just one thing though...Will there be blocks on it so that people can't post videos not pertaining to robotics? Because if not, I gaurantee someone will put one on there. Just my thoughts, but awesome idea, I'm going!

[fimmel]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

So, I'm intrigued to what you are using for the back end FLV conversion on this. The Blue Alliance recently acquired a dedicated server from Host Rocket.com. I'm not the go to guy on this, but I believe we will be using FFmpeg (it installs on Linux, yea) along with a bunch of scripts to automatically take the uploaded file, convert it to FLV, and populate the database with it.

yes were using ffmpeg (very hard to get to run on a 1and1 Linux package. one of the reasons for the lack of thumbnails is that we cannot (as of yet) get the php-ffmpeg extension to work properly. that may also be causing the 1 minute time limit.

If anyone has experience using ffmpeg and or has a server location that we can get access to install ffmpeg to that would be great (as i said the files can be hosted at different locations so it will not be a huge amount of bandwidth, basically all initial uploads and then sending the files to a different server)

also how much is your dedicated server? im seeing if i can find a server that will do the converting and then upload the files to other servers as more space is required.

[wolfj]

This is what we've been waiting for all along!!

[Pavan Dave]

During the course of this next week, there will be a server change and FIRST Tube may be down for a little while. Also if people could report all of the bugs to me by posting here or emailing me or sending me a personal message I would really appreciate it because we are here to serve you guys, and if you guys have a problem, so do we and we will try our best to fix it as soon as possible.

Thanks again,
Pavan.