Rails - Apr 2006 - reading mpeg4 dimensions and flv dimension using ruby

Hey guyz,
Well basically what i am trying to do is get ruby to read my video files 
in so that i can get the dimensions of the video and then place the 
dimension sizes in my view. The two formats i need to do this with are 
mpeg4 (h.264) and FLV. Is there anyway i can get rails to access the 
metadata of these formats and pull the dimensions from the metadata? Any 
help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,

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there is a ruby tool called FLVToole2 from http://www.inlet-media.de/
it parses FLV files and reads/writes metadata.

no idea about mp4, but if you don''t find any lib for that, you can
always
call ffmpeg from ruby

On 4/7/06, Andrew M <millerboy15@hotmail.com>
wrote:
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> Hey guyz,
> Well basically what i am trying to do is get ruby to read my video files
> in so that i can get the dimensions of the video and then place the
> dimension sizes in my view. The two formats i need to do this with are
> mpeg4 (h.264) and FLV. Is there anyway i can get rails to access the
> metadata of these formats and pull the dimensions from the metadata? Any
> help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thank you,
>
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how do you call ffmpeg from ruby?

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with "system" or just the ffmpeg command inside ``, check out a ruby
tutorial on things like that.

On 4/10/06, Andrew <millerboy15@hotmail.com>
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> how do you call ffmpeg from ruby?
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I seem to remember answering this very question here on the list, and
searching on ruby-forum.com shows it having been asked three times 
already by
someone called Andrew (you or someone else), and answered twice.

Please see: http://www.ruby-forum.com/search?query=ffmpeg&submit=Search

for a few answers.

Alan

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