I am looking for an application that converts video to flash player (or) some other open source player ... like the way google converts video to flash for playback on a browser. I would want to install the application on a server for anyone to use -- or it could be local running on the users machine -- but in the end I want to automate the process as much as possible.

I would also would like to be able to pick the thumbnail from any frame in the video (if possible).
Any suggestions orideas out there? Please respong to Rick - rick@visionefx.net

You could use Flash 8 Video Encoder. I use that and it works very well. But the video is sometimes choppy unless your using a flash video streaming server. Otherwise, it just uses HTTP Streaming

I use that method now and again-- but I what I want is to have something that does the conversion for me on the server plus some otehr functionalities:

Like this:
http://65.36.227.70/video_news.pdf

Rick,

It sounds nice, however I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be able to support anything that performs a serverside conversion for fear of resource usage and stability problems in the shared environment. You could get one of our WinVPS plans to address this though - that would allow you to maintain your own server environment and install special components.

Let us know if you're interested in this.

Does anyone out there know of an app. that would do this?

Hi rickvidallon!
Try Video to Flash Converter Pro. It's useful prog. And if you'll have question you may ask to support service.