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If you are looking to do some video encoding the “cheap” way, then you need to install FFMPEG. If you are a CentOS junkie like me, then this is how you do it:

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo

Insert

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1

Now run yum update

After that look for ffmpeg (yum list ffmpeg) and install it… (yum install ffmpeg)

That’s it! On my next post I’ll add some ffmpeg tricks and tips.

So, I’m researching video comments… I ran into Riffly.  They happen to have a plugin for Wordpress.  The only drawback is that little ad at the bottom and the super pixelated output… but is FREE, so who cares. 

TO test, please add a comment.  

http://riffly.com/

Earlier post: http://www.chrisdevbox.com/blog/2008/06/09/youtube-video-downloader/

This is a cool little utility I created after getting more than a few requests from friends and family asking me: How can I download the YouTube FLV video, so I can use it in my “school” project… (Notice the quotes around school?).  Anyway, what you do with the video is up to you, just don’t do anything illegal like starting your own YouTube video site using videos from YouTube!  Here is the link to the download utility

http://www.chrisdevbox.com/tools/get_youtube_video_download.php

Enjoy, and leave a comment if you like it!