Adding Media to Your Rails Application ~ Dave Naffis and Josh Owens

Juggernaut for file upload progress. Persistent connection.

Processing. ffmpeg is hard to install. Mencoder is a wrapper around ffmpeg. on2 is a couple thousand dollar option. MediaPlug private beta, there’s a Rails plugin.

Thumbnailing.

Build out an encoding farm using SQS. Transcoders sitting on multiple machines, pulling from a queue.

flvtool2 does metadata on the video such as length of video in time, etc.

Ruby Mp3Info library.