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Again, You Tube Clone So Simple

Tue, 01 May 2007 23:36:37 GMT

My buddy needed to clone YouTube and asked for the the code. Yea, CodeShare !

So now presented in the glory of InstantSpots OVER THE TOP COOL CODESHARE :

Gonna need these applications:

http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/download.html

http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/download.html

[codeshare maycfda3]

InstantSpot , this site ROCKS!

Funny video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzKGyLh_aIA

Coldfuions YouTube Clone - Super Easy

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:59:09 GMT

I wanted to make a posting solution for my company. Needed to have a YouTube capabilbility. Could have used YouTube, but I didn’t want a YouTube bug on stuff clients were going to view.

I could not believe how TOTALLY easy this was with ColdFusion.

You need 2 things.

FFMPEG, this INCREADABLE open source project is a headless application that can accept about 32 different type of video files and can convert them to Flash .flv format
FlowPlayer, this great open source project is what I use as the player for the .flv. It is cool cause it streams the .flv with out having to “compile” with Flash 8. You just pass it the .flv name and your all set.

Here is my example using the form and action page example:

This could be your form uploadVideo_dsp.cmf:

<cfset myself = viewState.getValue("myself") />
<h1>Upload Video</h1>
<form action="uploadVideo_act.cfm" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<table>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="right">Video:</td>
<td><input type="file" name="video"></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td></td>
<td><input type="submit" Value="upload"/> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>


This would be the uploadVideo_act.cfm code:

<cffile
action="upload"
destination = "C:\_FULL_SYSETM_PATH_TO_YOUR_VIDEO_DIR\video\video" nameconflict="overwrite"
filefield="video" />

<cfexecute name = "C:\_FULL_SYSETM_PATH_TO_YOUR_FFMPEG.EXE_APP\ffmpeg.exe" arguments = "-i C:\_FULL_SYSETM_PATH_TO_YOUR_VIDEO_DIR\video\#cffile.SERVERFILE# -s 320x240 -r 15 -b 2000 -ar 44100 -ab 64 -ac 2 C:\_FULL_SYSETM_PATH_TO_YOUR_VIDEO_DIR\video\#replace(cffile.SERVERFILE, ".", "")#.flv"
outputFile = "C:\"
timeout = "900">
</cfexecute>
<cfset videoName = "#replace(cffile.SERVERFILE, ".", "")#.flv">



Then the display page for the video:


<cfset videoName = query.videoName_YouJustGotFromTheDataBase />
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="/views/video/FlowPlayer.swf" width="320" height="263" id="FlowPlayer">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="/views/video/FlowPlayer.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="scale" value="noScale" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="flashvars" value="videoFile=../../video/#videoName#" />
</object>

How cool is ColdFusion? Really cool, again some non-programmer like myself can make a youTube clone.

I LOVE CF.

Front End Is Trying to Kill Me

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:41:15 GMT

I am TOTALLY tired of the front end nightmare!

Will Flex save me? I just printed out the Flex Store 2_1 and have been reading Steve Webster’s (how kewl is Webster for the name of a RIA framework creator???!?!?, LOVE IT) 6 part series on Flex Development. I think Flex will be the answer I have been looking for.

What will Flex save me from? STUPID BROWSERS!!!!! I love how CF makes making the backend easy, but trying to wrestle Yahoo UI, Dojo, or script.aculo.us, or my fav TwinHelix (MOST LIGHT WEIGHT, MOST CROSS BROWSER SUPPORT DTHML LIB out there) to solve some problem that my designers have made every time is getting to be a bummer.

F this HTML stuff, give me something that works. I think it is here.

I think I am going to try to give Reactor Blog a Flex front end.

Ill post code if it comes out.

bigLove to ColdFusion,
ja