I am compressing video in the cloud via amazon's EC2/mapreduce/s3/etc... I am using map/reduce for this although it is really not a reduce problem only a map problem and not even that - I just need to spawn a bunch of ffmpeg processes.... The problem is I cant map/reduce...

I am creating an instance for the SuperBitter off the RAILS fedora AMI. I dont use fedora but I decided to use an Amazon recommended AMI and it was fedora or bust. I added: git, java, csound, ffmpeg, scala, jetty & mavin (for lift)ffmpeg is still missing some stuffused...