Comments on: FFMPEG GUI using Flex 2 beta

By: rich

rich — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:12:19 +0000

i have a problem wherein I need to call an exe file using flex. Can anybody help ?

By: Sönke

Sönke — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:47:27 +0000

Nikki, I think this it not the right please. I would recommend asking in the apollocoders mailinglist.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:03:49 +0000

Hey Sonke,
Could you please elaborate a bit on your comments about calling an exe from AIR using XMLSocket? Esp the part regarding the executable from C++. I have to compile a Trig XML file from a AIR application. Could you suggest a solution?

By: Sönke

Sönke — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:06:14 +0000

No, you have to build another executable with e.g. c++ and this application could communicate e.g. via XMLSocket with AIR and could call the ffmpeg.exe

By: Rohan Rehman

Rohan Rehman — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:56:58 +0000

Thanks for the reply Sönke, I ahve never used the XMLSocket class since I use a lot of flash remoting.
But you are you confirming that with the XMLSocket class I can run an exe file?

By: Sönke

Sönke — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:35:45 +0000

My example only prepares a command line argument. There is no executalbe called. AIR neither has the possibility to call executables in the current version and I don’ know if this will come in the future.
The only way would be calling an executable from AIR via e.g. XMLSocket which does this job.

By: Rohan Rehman

Rohan Rehman — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:03:56 +0000

I am developing an Air (apollo) app and I am trying to get it to talk to ffmpeg.exe, but the air api dosen’t seem to have public methods that allow executing exe files.

how did you do it with flex? I am not a flex user, does the flex api allow file execution?

By: Sönke

Sönke — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:27:56 +0000

Hey Nicholas, thanks for your thoughts.
I also played with Apollo and am waiting for the next free time to get my hands dirty

By: Nicholas B

Nicholas B — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:33:09 +0000

Nice GUI! I have to admit it did take me a few minutes of looking for the run button to figure out that it just makes the command line, which you can then run yourself…

Apollo is out this week, and I’ve only managed “hello world”… As far as I have figured out, Apollo can read and write to disk, but doesn’t seem to be able to launch applications… For security reasons, I would imagine. I have looked (only for half an hour) for a way to launch things with javascript, but that doesn’t seem to be too successful… but, maybe, if the Apollo app and ffmpeg.exe sit in the same folder, and apollo is used to write a *.bat//(*.whatever linux uses) file to the disk, then that could be run?

Hopefully you’ll be able to launch things with Apollo when it gets beyond alpha…

I suppose I could just point people to Riva, but… you know, it’s kind of fun to make stuff!

By: Sönke

Sönke — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:01:15 +0000

Hi Eric,

what you can do is use ffmpeg via commandline and the FFMPEG GUI I have made.
Perhaps there will be a crossplatform solution when Adobe releases Apollo.