[FFmpeg-devel] Alembik: video and audio transcoding with FFMpeg

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:41:03PM +0100, Jakub Danilewicz wrote:
> 
> I have just subscribed to your mailing group, so first hello to everyone. :)
> 
> I would like to introduce to you a new open-source initiative called 
> Alembik, which in brief is an OMA STI-compliant media transcoding server 
> based on Java (J2EE) technology. OMA STI stands for Open Mobile 
> Alliance's Standard Transcoding Interface, which precisely defines a 
> contract between a client (needing some media file(s) to be transcoded) 
> and a server (which carries out the transformation process according to 
> the passed parameters set).
> 
> To my best knowledge Alembik (a word derived from the name of a device 
> for alchemical transmutations) is a first open-source attempt to meet 
> that standard.

What an impressive amount of acronyms.  Anyway, I added Alembik to our
projects list.

Diego