Answers.Body: <p>FFMPEG is what you're looking for.  You can use it to transcode most anything, it can easily be integrated via STDIO, and there are a handful of library versions of it you can use as well.</p>
  
  <p>I'd recommend hopping over to <a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com">StackOverflow.com</a>, where this topic has been heavily discussed.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>You could look into MediaTomb it runs on linux. I use it for real time transcoding to my direcTv box and PS3</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Encoding.com offers cloud-based high-speed conversion. Their standard plans aren't instant (up to 30 minute queue time), but they do offer encode-as-you-upload (meaning that they start encoding during the upload process, which is awesome).</p>
  
  <p>You'll need to contact them for more info and pricing on that.</p>
  
  <p>Be aware: What you're wanting to do is both complex and expensive unless you hire someone, in which case it's just expensive (assuming your website becomes anywhere near popular).</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>I am guessing that mplayer and vlc are where you want to start lookIng. </p>
  
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Body: <p>Can anyone help me find a software stack for doing near real time video encoding/transcoding?</p>
  
  <p>I want to allow users to upload videos(wmv, avi, mov, flash video, other formats) to my website. As soon as the file is uploaded, I want to encode/transcode it into h.264 (preferably with an API so I can get progress percentage etc) so that I can then play it back via html5 or a flash player.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone have any guidance for me on this?</p>
  
  <p>Oh, and the server platform can be either windows or linux.</p>
  
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ThreadText: # What type of media server software do I need to transcode in near real time?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2012-02-02)
  
  Can anyone help me find a software stack for doing near real time video encoding/transcoding?
  
  I want to allow users to upload videos(wmv, avi, mov, flash video, other formats) to my website. As soon as the file is uploaded, I want to encode/transcode it into h.264 (preferably with an API so I can get progress percentage etc) so that I can then play it back via html5 or a flash player.
  
  Anyone have any guidance for me on this?
  
  Oh, and the server platform can be either windows or linux.
  
  **Tags:** video
  
  
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  ## 4 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2012-05-12. Score: 1
  
  FFMPEG is what you're looking for. You can use it to transcode most anything, it can easily be integrated via STDIO, and there are a handful of library versions of it you can use as well.
  
  I'd recommend hopping over to [StackOverflow.com](http://www.stackoverflow.com), where this topic has been heavily discussed.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2012-05-12. Score: 0
  
  You could look into MediaTomb it runs on linux. I use it for real time transcoding to my direcTv box and PS3
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2012-02-07. Score: 0
  
  Encoding.com offers cloud-based high-speed conversion. Their standard plans aren't instant (up to 30 minute queue time), but they do offer encode-as-you-upload (meaning that they start encoding during the upload process, which is awesome).
  
  You'll need to contact them for more info and pricing on that.
  
  Be aware: What you're wanting to do is both complex and expensive unless you hire someone, in which case it's just expensive (assuming your website becomes anywhere near popular).
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2012-02-04. Score: 0
  
  I am guessing that mplayer and vlc are where you want to start lookIng.
  
  
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