Basically i am wondering how to call ffmpeg in rails so i can read video files in order to get their properties? My goal is to have ffmpeg read thru a list of video files and then take their properties and place these properties along with the name in a sql table. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Andrew M wrote:> Basically i am wondering how to call ffmpeg in rails so i can read video > files in order to get their properties? My goal is to have ffmpeg read > thru a list of video files and then take their properties and place > these properties along with the name in a sql table.You can call a shell program using backticks `ffmpeg ...options...` If there''s a way to get the program to output the infirmation you require to stdout, you can capture it and store it. This is more a Ruby question, than a Rails one, I think. Sorry I can''t be more help. A. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Alan Francis wrote:> This is more a Ruby question, than a Rails one, I think. Sorry I can''t > be more help.Here, for example, is some ruby code that captures `ssh-agent` output and uses it. The %x{...} is the same as the backticks I think. http://www.joeygibson.com/blog/2004/01/07 Shouldn''t be a strech to run ffmpeg instead and take the parsed output and put it in a model. Alan -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.