Announcing PyTranscode

PyTranscode - FFMPEG management for python

PyTranscode is a set of classes that control and report from FFMPEG. They also make using FFMPEG from python very very simple.

Things you can do with PyTranscode:
  • Transcode videos from format a to b using presets stored in another file
  • Extract splash images from a video file (actually extracts a series of splash images at user-defined intervals)
  • Objectify video files - create a VideoObject form a file and it will provide you with all the details of the file from framerate to duration to formats used in both audio and video
  • Runner - run FFMPEG command and trap the output, reporting back percentage complete of any action
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Posted at 5pm on 21/11/09 | No Comments » | Filed Under: Development, Django, Google, Open Source

Amazon RDS and Django

Amazon Relational Database Service and Django

Amazon has recently released a long-awaited feature addition to it’s Web Services infrastructure: Relational Databases. Having for a long time only had SimpleDB on offer (non-relational and weird to implement), it’s always been something of a struggle to get MySQL running on EC2.

Traditionally one would have to set up a block storage device, mount it, hack the mySQL  configuration to use the mounted EBS volume for storage (not to mention messing around with XFS locking and snapshotting the

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Posted at 8am on 27/10/09 | 7 comments | Filed Under: Amazon AWS, Development, Django