Having been in the media streaming game for quite some time, esentially since its birth on the internet. I have needed conversion and transcoding tools countless times. These tools usually needed to interoperate with Java in one way or another. I have used the various offerings throughout the years, from JMF, FMJ, QuickTime, and helloNetwork stuff to accomplish my tasks. None of these tools worked as seemlessly nor flawlessly as Xuggler does. One of the best things about it, is that it works with Red5 for live transcoding! 

Another key point to consider is that it works everywhere (osx, linux, and win); this is an important feature when I consider tools. So are you ready to buy a copy now? Guess what, it gets better.. Xuggler is FREE and it can be built compliant to GPL or LGPL!

Kudos go to Art and Robert, you’ve created an awesome open source tool and I am glad to use it.

http://blog.xuggle.com/

Lastly, if youre attending FITC in Amsterdam next week you should stop and see Arts demo.

I created a little utility program tonight to get all the images, movies, and documents from a location and move them to a single level at another location. This utility is in response to a need to save stuff from friends computers after the OS has died or whatever. Since I’ve written it in Java, it works anywhere and you may feel free to use it however you like. I accept no responsibility for any problems you may encounter, use at your own risk.

Executable jar: FileGrabber.jar
Source: FileGrabber_src.zip

Run it from the command line like so:

java -jar FileGrabber.jar source_dir destination_dir 

Source directory is the only “required” parameter and if you dont supply a destination directory one will be created for you… enjoy!