Flash is limited to loading files in certain formats.

To include something else in your flash chats and presentations you need to convert these files to supported formats. Most can be converted to swf.

See these tools below:

authorPOINT Lite Free PowerPoint to Flash Converter for PPS, PPT to SWF

iSpring Free PowerPoint, YouTube to SWF

Google Docs Viewer for PowerPoint, PDF, Tiff

SWFtools : PDF2SWF, SWFcombine, WAV2SWF, AVI2SWF

PDFcreator : Convert any windows printable document (i.e. DOC)  to PDF

This is a tutorial to enable video sharing support on Centos servers.

This should install ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder, flvtool2, yamdi, x264, theora, mp3lame, vorbis, ogg, faac, faad2, xvid, mediainfo, mp4box, neroaacenc . These tools will enable on your server:

• video and audio conversion
• thumbnail generation
• FLV meta injection (flvtool2, yamdi)
• extra codecs (x264, theora, mp3lame, vorbis, ogg, faac, faad2, xvid)

This is functional and we update it each time we configure a new server.
Installation is done using the “root” account.

Attention: If you copy and paste commands below, make sure “-” are not converted to “.”.  If these get converted, edit “.” back to “-”. Some options use 2 * “-”.

Some prerequisites:

yum install gcc gcc-c++ automake autoconf libtool yasm git subversion
yum install zlib-devel libmad-devel libvorbis-devel libtheora-devel lame-devel faac-devel a52dec-devel xvidcore-devel freetype-devel
yum install libogg zlib-devel libtool

rpm -ivh  http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm

yum install yasm
yum install libogg libogg-devel libvorbis libvorbis-devel


The quick way to setup ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder:

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

or if you have 64bit server

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel mplayer mencoder ffmpeg-libpostproc

Edit the /etc/ld.so.conf file and add the following lines:

/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib

GIT
(required to get X264)

yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel

cd /usr/local/src

wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.0.4.tar.gz

tar -zxvf git-1.6.0.4.tar.gz

cd git-1.6.0.4

make prefix=/usr/local all

make prefix=/usr/local/ install

git –version

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.6.0.4.tar.gz
cd /usr/local/share/man
tar -zxvf /usr/local/src/git-manpages-1.6.0.4.tar.gz

cd /usr/local/src/

git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
cd /usr/local/src/x264
./configure –enable-shared –prefix=/usr
make &&  make install
ls -s /usr/local/lib/libx264.so /usr/lib/libx264.so

cd /usr/local/src/

wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.1.1.tar.bz2

tar jxvf libtheora-1.1.1.tar.bz2

cd /usr/local/src/libtheora-1.1.1

./configure –prefix=/usr --enable-shared

make && make installls -s /usr/local/lib/libtheora.so /usr/lib/libtheora.so

cd /usr/local/src/

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faac-1.28.tar.gz

tar zxvf faac-1.28.tar.gz
cd /usr/local/src/faac-1.28

./configure –prefix=/usr
make && make install

cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://openjpeg.googlecode.com/files/openjpeg_v1_3.tar.gz
tar zxvf openjpeg_v1_3.tar.gz
cd OpenJPEG_v1_3

make && make install

ldconfig

cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.2.1.tar.gz
tar zxfv xvidcore-1.2.1.tar.gz
cd /usr/local/src/xvidcore/build/generic
./configure --enable-shared
make && make install

ls -s /usr/local/lib/libxvidcore.so.4.2 /usr/lib/libxvidcore.so.4.2

Before installing ffmpeg, setup some linking for scripts that look in certain locations for codecs:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.50 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.50
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.51 /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.49 /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.51 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavdevice.so.52 /usr/lib/libavdevice.so.52

ln -s /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0.3.10 /usr/local/lib/libtheora.so.0.3.10
ln -s /usr/lib/libx264.so.80 /usr/local/lib/libx264.so.80
ln -s /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0.3.10 /usr/local/lib/libtheora.so
ln -s /usr/lib/libx264.so.80 /usr/local/lib/libx264.so

FFMPEG (download latest from SVN)

export TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/

cd /usr/local/src/
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/

./configure --enable-libfaac --enable-shared --enable-memalign-hack --enable-gpl  --enable-libtheora --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg  --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-swscale
make && make install

ln -s /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg

FFMPEG configure options use 2 x “-”.

MPLAYER

cd /usr/local/src/
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
svn update
cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
./configure && make && make install

ln -s /usr/local/bin/mencoder /usr/bin/mencoder
ln -s /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/bin/mplayer

FLVTOOL2
First install Ruby from WHM.

cd /usr/local/src/
wget rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9225/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
tar zxvf flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
cd /usr/local/src/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6/
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install

YAMDI

cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/yamdi/yamdi/1.4/yamdi-1.4.tar.gz?use_mirror=ufpr
tar zxf yamdi-1.4.tar.gz
cd yamdi-1.4
gcc yamdi.c -o yamdi -O2 -Wall
mv yamdi /usr/bin/
yamdi -h

INSTALLATION RESULTS

mencoder: /usr/local/bin/mencoder
mplayer: /usr/local/bin/mplayer
yamdi: /usr/bin/yamdi

Add these shortcuts to /usr/bin if you need these there by default:
mencoder to /usr/local/bin/mencoder
mplayer to /usr/local/bin/mplayer

SuPHP fix

With suphp  “env -i” is required when executing php scripts.

exec(“env -i /usr/bin/php ” . $cmd.  ‘>/dev/null &’);

MediaInfo

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download/CentOS

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenlib/libzen0-0.4.14-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenlib/libzen0-devel-0.4.14-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mediainfo/libmediainfo0-0.7.32-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mediainfo/libmediainfo0-devel-0.7.32-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mediainfo/mediainfo-0.7.32-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
rpm -vi libzen0-0.4.14-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
rpm -vi libzen0-devel-0.4.14-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
rpm -vi libmediainfo0-0.7.32-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
rpm -vi libmediainfo0-devel-0.7.32-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm
rpm -vi mediainfo-0.7.32-1.i386.CentOS_5.rpm

ln -s /usr/bin/mediainfo /usr/local/bin/mediainfo

MP4Box

yum -y install freetype-devel SDL-devel freeglut-devel

wget -c http://mirror.ffmpeginstaller.com/source/gpac/gpac-full-0.4.5.tar.gz

tar -xzf gpac-full-0.4.5.tar.gz
cd gpac

./configure –prefix=/usr/local/cpffmpeg/ –extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cpffmpeg/include/ –extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cpffmpeg/lib –disable-wx –strip

make && make lib &&  make apps && make install lib && make install

cp bin/gcc/libgpac.so /usr/lib

ln -s /usr/local/cpffmpeg/bin/MP4Box /usr/local/bin/MP4Box
ln -s /usr/local/cpffmpeg/bin/MP4Box /usr/bin/MP4Box

install -m644 bin/gcc/libgpac.so /usr/local/lib/libgpac.so
chmod +x /usr/local/lib/libgpac.so
ldconfig

neroAacEnc

wget ftp://ftp6.nero.com/tools/NeroDigitalAudio.zip
unzip NeroDigitalAudio.zip -d nero
cd nero/linux
sudo install -D -m755 neroAacEnc /usr/local/bin

ln -s /usr/local/bin/neroAacEnc /usr/bin/neroAacEnc

uploadprogress

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/uploadprogress-1.0.0.tgz
tar -zxvf uploadprogress-1.0.0.tgz
cd uploadprogress-1.0.0
phpize
./configure && make && make install

Edit /usr/lib/php.ini and add:

extension = “uploadprogress.so”

ASM is a modular assembler, it is required by the x264 package.

codec:$ wget \
http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-0.7.0.tar.gz
codec:$ tar zfvx yasm-0.7.0.tar.gz
codec:$ cd yasm-0.7.0
codec:$ ./configure
codec:$ make && make install
codec:$ cd ..