Automating Video-to-Flash Encoding/Conversions

Question

Hi, I hope someone can help me with this, as numerous calls
to Adobe have gone unanswered (no callbacks).
I need to either find a product and/or solution that will
enable me to convert various video formats (e.g., QuickTime, MPEG,
Windows Media, etc.) to Flash automatically as opposed to doing it
manually via the Macromedia Flash 8 Video Encoder or other manual
process(es).
A good example of the functionality I need is equivalent to
how
YouTube works: When you upload a
video to YouTube, some background process/service runs that takes
that video and converts it to Flash, and this is done
automatically--without user/manual processing. I need to have a
solution that does something like that.
Any suggestions/help are/is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

In my case, this is 3 physical (not partitions) SATA II HDD's, where I spread the I/O load over all three.
C:\ OS, programs
D:\ Projects w/ Scratch Disks
E:\ Media and Page File (this system)
In the particular case above, the test Project happened to be on my E:\, along with the media, and my Page File. That is not how I normally work, but decided to leave it alone, for this timing test. It is obviously not the ideal, when it comes to "spreading the load," and is not my recommended scheme. The Export was also to that same E:\, so there should have been a bit of an I/O bottleneck there.
I also went against my normal workflow, as I did not shut down anything, including AnitVirus, spy-sweeping and pop-up blocking, plus I had 5 tabs open and active in Chrome (my browser). Again, this should have created a bit of a CPU bottleneck.
Still, with all those things being done in a less than ideal situation, the time was pretty good. Not sure how much I could have shaved off the Export process, had I set things up in my normal fashion, and created an ideal environment.
Sorry to not define the terms early on.
Good luck,
Hunt