inzania Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Hey all, So I have .caf files that are recorded from my iOS applications and uploaded to my server. Ultimately I want to play these recordings within my website using jPlayer (a jQuery plugin: http://www.jplayer.org), which means they need to be converted from the .caf format. The encoding cannot be done on the mobile device, or so I am told, being that it is too processor intensive. This leaves the webserver... So far I've had very little luck finding any way to convert the file using PHP. I assumed that it would be easy enough to use something like LAME to encode the caf into a mp3. I've seen a few cryptic references to doing exactly this in my google searches, but no definitive information. Can anybody shed some light on the situation? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdavidbakr Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I've done this by having PHP put the file into a storage location, and populating a database table that a cron script runs to encode the file. You probably could just as easily use the shell_exec() function in your upload script, but you might run into timeout issues if it takes too long to encode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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