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4th September 2006, 14:06
Mods - Please move this if it doesn't belong here :o


Testing out a Freeware FTP to virtual drive app:

FTPdrive http://www.killprog.com/indexe.html

Maps a local drive letter to an FTP site. Transcoding FTP hosted media through AVIsource seems to work in initial tests. Source location in script looks like this:

aviSource("Z:\ftpserver.domain.com\source.avi")

You can install the very useful PathcopyEx context menu extension http://www.mlin.net/files/PathCopyEx.msi to simplify working the path out. Adds a "Copy Path to Clipboard" menu item when you right-click.

Using the latest ImageSequence.dll, I was also able to encode an FTP folder of images via:

CoronaSequence("Z:\ftpserver.domain.com\img\*.png", sort=1)

Although I haven't tried it, I suspect the FTP protocol will work faster than the SMB/Netbios for transcoding on local area networks.