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Railo 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Mark Drew , Gert Franz, Paul Klinkenberg, Jordan Michaels
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Railo 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Mark Drew , Gert Franz, Paul Klinkenberg, Jordan Michaels

Overview of this book

<p>Railo Server is one of the quickest ways to start developing complex web applications online. Widely considered as the fastest CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) engine, Railo allows you to create dynamic web pages that can change depending on user input, database lookups, or even the time of day.</p> <p>Railo 3 Beginner's Guide will show you how to get up and running with Railo, as well as developing your web applications with the greatest of ease. You will learn how to install Railo and the basics of CFML to allow you to gradually build up your knowledge, and your dynamic web applications, as the book progresses.</p> <p>Using Packt’s Beginner's Guide approach, this book will guide you, with step-by-step instructions, through installing the Railo Server on various environments. You will learn how to use caches, resources, Event Gateways and special scripting functions that will allow you to create webpages with limitless functionality. You will even explore methods of extending Railo by adding your own tags to the server and building custom extensions. Railo 3 Beginner's Guide is a must for anyone getting to grips with Railo Server.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Railo 3
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Time for action - creating poster frames and clips


We already saw how to convert one video. Let's create another video, but this time we are going to define which segment of the video we want to convert, rather than converting the whole video.

  1. 1. In the listing_7_02.cfm template, add the following lines of code so that the template code now looks like this:

    <cfsetting requesttimeout="600">
    <cfvideo action="convert" source="bbb_trailer_iphone.m4v" destination="trailer.flv">
    <cfvideo action="convert" source="bbb_trailer_iphone.m4v" destination="clip.flv" start="19s" max="3s">
    
  2. 2. When we run the code by going to http://localhost:8888/Chapter_7/listing_7_02.cfm and look in the folder, you will see we have a trailer.flv file and a clip.flv file. The clip was created by stating when we wanted the conversion to start, and the number of seconds we wanted to convert (the start="19s" and max="3s" attributes).

  3. 3. Awesome! We have now created our clips.

  4. 4. Let's get some info from...