# Any rails host that have ffmpeg available? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 27, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-rails-host-that-have-ffmpeg-available/107921 "2007-06-27T14:41:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixplate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mixplate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mixplate)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-rails-host-that-have-ffmpeg-available/107921/1 "2007-06-27T14:41:02Z")
looking for a rails host that have ffmpeg installed. found out that some hosting companies dont allow that softwar on their system. any reliable rails hosts already have that installed? thanks ---
**Author:** ![mixplate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mixplate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mixplate)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-rails-host-that-have-ffmpeg-available/107921/2 "2007-06-27T15:49:07Z")
We utilize slingshot for that functionality ---
**Author:** ![mixplate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mixplate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mixplate)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-rails-host-that-have-ffmpeg-available/107921/3 "2007-06-27T15:52:49Z")
mixplate wrote: > looking for a rails host that have ffmpeg installed. found out that some > hosting companies dont allow that softwar on their system. any reliable > rails hosts already have that installed? Dreamhost appears to have, at least when I log in ~$ ffmpeg -version FFmpeg version SVN-r7231, Copyright © 2000-2006 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --prefix=/usr --mandir=${prefix}/share/man –enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-vorbis --enable-faac –enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libgsm –disable-debug --enable-mp3lame --enable-faad libavutil version: 49.1.0 libavcodec version: 51.25.0 libavformat version: 51.6.0 built on May 4 2007 15:46:52, gcc: 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) ffmpeg SVN-r7231 libavutil 3211520 libavcodec 3348736 libavformat 3343872 Regards, Chris ---
**Author:** ![mixplate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mixplate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mixplate)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-rails-host-that-have-ffmpeg-available/107921/4 "2007-06-27T17:15:51Z")
slingshot the hosting company? slingshot the joyent? thanks Jonathan Bradley wrote: > We utilize slingshot for that functionality ---
**Author:** ![mixplate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mixplate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mixplate)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-rails-host-that-have-ffmpeg-available/107921/5 "2007-06-27T19:47:35Z")
The Hosting Company. We use them for our rails hosting [http://www.slingshothosting.com](http://www.slingshothosting.com) On Jun 27, 11:15 am, mixplate [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![mixplate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mixplate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mixplate)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 7:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-rails-host-that-have-ffmpeg-available/107921/6 "2007-06-28T07:12:32Z")
On Jun 27, 2007, at 5:41 AM, mixplate wrote: > looking for a rails host that have ffmpeg installed. found out that > some > hosting companies dont allow that softwar on their system. any > reliable > rails hosts already have that installed? Hello. We have many customers running ffmpeg. If you’d like to scale your application with ffmpeg, however, I’d _highly_ recommend using Amazon’s excellent SQS+EC2 services for that part of your application. The folks are RightScale are absolutely experts at that sort of integration. – – Tom M., CTO – Engine Y., Ruby on Rails Hosting – Support, Scalability, Reliability – (866) 518-YARD (9273) ---
**Author:** ![mixplate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mixplate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mixplate)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-rails-host-that-have-ffmpeg-available/107921/7 "2007-06-28T15:32:28Z")
Hi Tom, I am new to adding services to a rails app. upon reading some overview of the sqs+ec2, does this mean my rails app will upload the video to an s3 account, and pass it to sqs to do the actual file conversion of video? that way, my rails app process are not tied up? thanks Tom M. wrote: > On Jun 27, 2007, at 5:41 AM, mixplate wrote: > > > looking for a rails host that have ffmpeg installed. found out that > > some > > hosting companies dont allow that softwar on their system. any > > reliable > > rails hosts already have that installed? > > Hello. > > We have many customers running ffmpeg. > > If you’d like to scale your application with ffmpeg, however, I’d > _highly_ recommend using Amazon’s excellent SQS+EC2 services for that > part of your application. > > The folks are RightScale are absolutely experts at that sort of > integration. > > – > – Tom M., CTO > – Engine Y., Ruby on Rails Hosting > – Support, Scalability, Reliability > – (866) 518-YARD (9273)