Tag: ffmpeg

  • Line-out scrobbler

    for years i’ve been trying to hijack music recognition services like shahzam to be able to recognize music. i’ve finally got this working thanks to the fine guys at echonest, who kindly provide a proper api for this. my proof of concept is running on a spare macbook. here’s how it works on the mac…

  • automated screendump creation

    i recently had to create jpg thumbs of the first frame from a bunch of videos. doing this manually is not really an option if you have 100 files or more, so commandline to the rescue. i had an ubuntu box, on which i installed ffmpeg: sudo apt-get install ffmpeg then cd into the directory…

  • php class for ffmpeg

    i’ve had a few projects over the last years where i’ve needed to convert some video file to flv, generate a thumbnail and get the video’s duration. i’ve never really got around to wrapping this into something reusable. but here it is, get it if you need it. you’ll also need a non-windows server with…