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YouCast™ is an open source Ruby on Rails video sharing application that you host on your own servers. It can be rebranded easily for your company or used as is. It is similar to a very simplified YouTube. Upload videos in any format and view them in the included Flash player. It doesn't do background processing of video yet.

Main features:

Upload videos, images, and music via web or mobile phone via SMS/MMS attachment Create a playlist of your videos, images, and music Play your media in a Flash player Get the code for the player to embed in any site (myspace, blog, etc) Generates thumbnails for videos Multi-user support with user login and user management Export your playlist in XSPF/Spiff format

Tech specs:

Ruby on Rails application designed with RESTful methodology Supports all major video and image formats, and mp3 for music Encodes all video to Flash Uses MMS2R for mobile media processing XSPF/Spiff format used for playlists for maximum portability

What can you do with YouCast™?

Create an internal video sharing site for your company or small business Use it as a base for your own video-related site Merge it with your existing site to add video and mobile media support Re-create YouTube to impress your friends

How much does it cost?

YouCast™ is free for non-commercial use.

Installing ffmpeg

http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=156 ffmpeg sources + AMR 3gpp files: /vendors/ffmpeg http://vexxhost.com/blog/2007/03/03/installing-ffmpeg-ffmpeg-php-mplayer-mencoder-flv2tool-lame-mp3-encoder-libogg-%E2%80%93-the-easy-way/

Install LAME

compile ffmpeg from source in vendor/ffmpeg

copy files for amr from 3gp site (included in vendor/ffmpeg)

copy amr files into libavcodec (included in vendor/ffmpeg)

compile with gmake

./configure --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-amr-nb --enable-amr-wb --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/include --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib