Get the System Uptime for a Windows Machine

From a command prompt type:
net stats srv
Look for the line that says "Statistics since"

More info:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555737

FFMPEG Settings for H264 on IPhone

Took me a coupe hours today to get this to work. First I tried to compile FFMPEG from source. This appeared to work but after a couple hours of it not liking the settings I was using I finally downloaded a Win32 binaries from here:
http://tripp.arrozcru.org/

Here's the command line I used to convert a 704x544 AVI. You'll probaby need to adjust some of the size settings for you're own application.

ffmpeg -i "Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up RICKROLL.avi" -vcodec libx264 -b 1500k -s 480x368 -acodec libfaac -ab 128k -ar 48000 -f mp4 -deinterlace -y rick-out.mp4


UPDATED 7/24/2011: updated 128kb to 128k per Daniel's feedback in the comments.

Here's the FFMPEG command line reference:
http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html

Note for the IPhone the following limits:
H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

If you're getting this error "error while opening encoder for output stream #0.0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height", you probably didn't compile FFMPEG correctly. Try downloading it from the website above.

H264 is currently my video format of choice since it works on the following:

• IPhone
• Silverlight
• Flash
• HTML5 in Safari (4+) and Chrome
• Quicktime

Note to FFMPEG. Figure out a way to make it easier to get Win32 binaries with all the bells and whistles. Using your product is frustrating enough without having to compile it with a million third party libraries.