obsidian Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Well, I've been Googling this for some time now, and I have yet to come up with a good, workable solution. I have found several conversion software packages that will do what I'm after, but I really don't want to have to pay for it if that's possible. I'm looking to allow members to upload files in different media formats to play back through a flash player I've written. Since flash natively supports MP3s, audio files are no problem. However, video is proving to be a bane to me. Does anyone know of a good conversion app that will allow for uploading AVI or WMV files and convert them to FLV files on upload? The catch... I really don't want to pay for it. I've found some that you can pay for, but there's got to be a free technique out there somewhere that's reliable. Any suggestions? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/57251-server-side-video-conversion-to-flv/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
effigy Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 How about this? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/57251-server-side-video-conversion-to-flv/#findComment-282965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviewdr Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Ya - ffmpeg is what your looking for. The php gallery2 has a big discussion on uploading avi's and converting them to flv. My how-to on ffmpeg is at: http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/Ffmpeg Here is 1 of many threads on automating the above via gallery2: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/63158 Hope it helps. -steve Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/57251-server-side-video-conversion-to-flv/#findComment-282999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsidian Posted June 26, 2007 Author Share Posted June 26, 2007 How about this? Ya - ffmpeg is what your looking for. The php gallery2 has a big discussion on uploading avi's and converting them to flv. My how-to on ffmpeg is at: http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/Ffmpeg Here is 1 of many threads on automating the above via gallery2: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/63158 Hope it helps. -steve Excellent. I actually looked at FFmpeg, but not in a lot of detail. From your experience, is it the type of module that could be installed on a shared server, or would it be something I'd most likely have to run on a dedicated box? Also, how difficult is it to automate a script to actually translate the files during PHP uploading? I know, lots of questions, and they would probably be answered with some in depth reading, but I don't have time ATM to do that ... I'll read more on it this weekend. Thanks for the input so far, guys. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/57251-server-side-video-conversion-to-flv/#findComment-283031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviewdr Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 You can download the ffmpeg precompiled binary for use on a shared server, as far as Im aware. I just apt-'d it on a dedicated box, cause its easier. Have a read of this thread: http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2007-June/009546.html where it discusses setting up ffmpeg on a shared server. And - http://gallery.menalto.com/node/30138 Yap - there is loads of info on this topic on menalto.com Yes - you can automate a script to translate teh files during PHP upload. There is a script on the http://gallery.menalto.com website. They do point out that this automatic script to encode the video shouldnt be done on a shared server (as it uses heavy cpu), but it should work fine on short videos. -steve Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/57251-server-side-video-conversion-to-flv/#findComment-285606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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