fdnews Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 I'm the non-tech admin for a small-town TV station website. Our weather department has cool software for the TV side that generates animated maps and radar loops for the TV forecast. It also has a web export module, and it makes and uploads the animations automatically. All good. Here's the problem: Those animations are HUGE -- 4 to 7 meg each. They're too big to embed in a page, of course. But the really cool weather software does not allow for optimization of the images prior to upload. So I'm stuck with these really big gifs. The question: Is there a server-side script (I've Googled and forum searched without luck) that will automatically and on a schedule convert an animated gif into .flv? Manual conversion is not an option as these images are updated every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/103597-how-to-convert-animated-gif-to-flv-server-side/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackcell Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 I think php provides graphic handling methods. Maybe write a script that will do this on that 15 minute basis? Run the idle process using header refresh. Depends on if the file will be the same name or by itself in a directory. Even then there are ways around it. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/103597-how-to-convert-animated-gif-to-flv-server-side/#findComment-530502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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