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>From: Deanne Cobb-Zygadlo <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: #9094 (!) workflow at Yale
>Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:59:50 -0600
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Chris,
This is incredibly helpful.  Thank you for sharing it with us.

Deanne Cobb-Zygadlo
University of Calgary


On 17-Mar-09, at 2:26 PM, LLTI-Editor wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> At the Yale Center for Language Study we often have to encode  
> batches of
> digital media: MOVs, MP3s, AVIs, WMVs, etc. Some of these (especially
> the videos!) take up a lot of computational resources, leaving any  
> staff
> workstation chugging along at a snail's pace. To alleviate this I  
> wrote
> a Perl script based on FFMPEG that allows any of our staff members to
> drag the media to a folder on one of our servers where the files  
> will be
> automatically converted and placed in an outbox (er, out folder). I
> figured since many of us are in the same situation it would be good to
> share.
>
> A couple of highlights:
>
> 	* It can read and write a variety of codecs and formats. Some of them
> have to be compiled into FFMPEG separately, but almost everything is
> supported and it should be able to convert very nearly any media  
> thrown
> at it (the only exception I've found so far is video files with more
> than one video stream embedded in them).
> 	* It can email a designated list of users when a job is completed, as
> well as the same list of users plus a separate list of admins if a job
> fails.
> 	* Options can be given on a per-file basis by placing a special text
> file alongside the media file to be converted.
> 	* Source files can be either kept (and moved to a "processed"
> directory) or deleted automatically upon successful conversion
>
> The web page explaining installation and customization can be found at
> http://cls.yale.edu/page.asp?file=2/455 (apologies for the somewhat
> unmemorable URL). The script can be run on OS X, Linux, or Windows,
> although Windows users will be missing the email functionality.
>
> I hope this proves useful to somebody else. I welcome any comments or
> improvements to the script.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris Meyer
> Programmer/Analyst
> Yale Center for Language Study
>
>
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