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During the years I’ve been involved in digital media related projects quite a bit. With the current dominance of flash video stuff has become a bit more straightforward; you don’t have to support multiple proprietary formats in parallel anymore.

I met and read about quite a lot of people building their own mini-youtube on top of ffmpeg and red5.

Now, the folks at Cantina consulting wrapped all tools in a nice grails plugin licensed under the Apache License, version 2.0.

Current Features include:

• Grails Service artifact that provides asynchronous (background) conversion of movies to the flash format
• Storage of a digital master copy of the movie for later resampling of the video asset
• Two options for Flash video players (JW FLV and Flowplayer) to display the uploaded flash video via a new GSP tag (see example below)
• Streaming Flash video via HTTP streaming for large flash video
• Small MVC application included to manage videos to serve as an administrative utility as well as a reference application that makes use of the Grails Video Service (VideoService) and options for the video players

According to the website support for Red5 (oss Flash media server) is planned.

My fingers are itching to give the plugin a go; have to be gentle to my eye though… the infection is almost, but not yet over! But I’ll try to get it running soon!