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On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Bernhard Posselt <[email protected]>
wrote:

> If you dont trust the admins, then the encryption app is not catering to
> your use case. Do you host your storage externally like on amazon s3 using
> the files_external app? If not encryption is useless and you could simply
> convert the existing file.
>
>
>
> On 08/06/2014 10:53 AM, Arman Khalatyan wrote:
>
>> Hi Ryan and Sean,
>> this is pretty cool idea!
>> As I started at AIP(Astrphysical Institute Potsdam) LatexCompilier and
>> Editor project a lot of people were asking on movie and image
>> convertor. Most of the requests are coming based on incompatibility
>> between Mac and Win codecs.
>> Currently I am using home brewed scripts to convert files but it is
>> not integrated in to OC.
>> LatexCompilier is not handling encrypted OC.
>> If you disable encryption app on OC then you have on the server normal
>> files so you can convert them in the backend as you want.
>> If encryption is essential for your environment(you dont trust admins
>> or you host in the remove cloud) then you should always decrypt file
>> on the server using users keys  convert then encrypt them back. For
>> this things better maybe to use OC API function.
>> I am not familiar with encryption api, maybe some one can comment on it.
>>
>> In any case  this app will be great addition in to OC.
>>
>> Greetings from Potsdam,
>> Arman.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Ryan Nix <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Just an addendum here:  Sean and I are working on this app this summer
>>> and
>>> will publish it in the ownCloud Apps directory upon completion.
>>>
>>> Northwestern University's School of Education's faculty work with a lot
>>> of
>>> video for analysis and we have found that ownCloud handles video files
>>> far
>>> better than other solutions like Box.com.  The purpose of our project is
>>> to
>>> extend ownCloud's functionality so that people can transcode their
>>> various
>>> video files into a standardized format, in our case m4v.  If anyone is
>>> interested in helping out, please let us know.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Ryan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Sean Bowen-Williams
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm creating a plugin for Northwestern University's School of Education
>>>> and Social Policy that uses ffmpeg to convert video files to a
>>>> professor's
>>>> preferred format.
>>>>
>>>> Now, to my understanding, ownCloud encrypts files at rest. Will this
>>>> interfere with the conversion and, if so, is there a way to circumvent
>>>> this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Sean
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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