A Dolphin’s Journal of Events

Mmmmm, thought I’d post this, get some feedback:

Phlix.TV basically will take any non-flash video file [AVI/MOV/WMV/MP4/Etc, as long as it's on a http server], and convert it to flash on the fly, without [too] much wait [5-15 seconds at most if the server containing the video is slow]. No need to download some random codec to watch videos, as long as you can stand [slightly higher quality than normal] flash video.

Randomly got the idea with a chat with my mate, and a few others who seemed to be interested in the idea. Basically it’s to bridge the gap in the online media world, where there’s still non-flash files laying around. [And if you don't like flash video quality, well then don't use this!]

A weekend’s worth of coding; yay ffmpeg having most of the support that I needed already in, only had to hack in a few things. Thanks to TJ for abusing it to death to iron out some odd bugs. Fun times had by all.

Anyway, try it out, tell me what you think, and if something doesn’t work right, let me know.

Todo:
- Idiot proof the url box
- Support FTP
- Properly detect live-streams so it won’t try to cache them
- Provide Embed code
- Impliment h.264 support [mmmm more ffmpeg editing]
- Provide some notice when the source server is being head-achingly slow

Can’t get enough of this video.