Could not connect to SSH

Hi all,

Am working with a community website, where users can upload videos of any type and convert it to flv through a converter.And i found from this document

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/FFmpeg

I need to connect to SSH, I tried with PUTTY and my connection failed,(with my ftp username and password)

Please guide to to do so, as am a beginner in this FFMpeg.

I tried to run it my local windows server but the FFMPEG is not working (Not installing).

How could i connect through SSH ??

Check in the web panel to make sure your user is "ssh enabled", as described here:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Enabling_Shell_Access

Just curious - what are you wanting to convert videos on a webserver instead of doing that on your own computer (or having your users do that via Youtube, or on *their* own computers). These are, after all, "shared" servers, and it is generally not a good thing to use them for heavy data processing tasks.

--rlparker