exec()

[chiprivers]

Further to my previous post, I have made some headway with my video script.  If I run the 'Video Encoder for Adoble Flash' through the command line, I have a prompt like this:

 

C:\Program Files\SourceTec\fvec>

 

And I can do a basic video encode with default settings like this:

 

C:\Program Files\SourceTec\fvec> fvec C:\xampp\htdocs\video\inputFile\input01.wmw C:\xampp\htdocs\video\outputFile\output01.wmv.flv

 

where "C:\xampp\htdocs\video\inputFile\input01.wmw" is the input video file and "C:\xampp\htdocs\video\outputFile\output01.wmv.flv" is the resulting output file.

 

The above works but I can not get this same operation to work using the exec() command in PHP.

 

I am using the following:

 

<?php

$systemDrive = "C:\Program Files\SourceTec\fvec\fvec.exe"; // location of programme to run
$inputFile = "C:\xampp\htdocs\video\inputVideo\input01.wmv"; // location of input file
$outputFile = "C:\xampp\htdocs\video\outputVideo\output01.wmv.flv"; // location of output file

$command = $systemDrive." fvc ".$inputFile." ".$outputFile;

$result = exec($command);

?>

 

However this is not working, Can anybody help with this? I have googled and googled and I cannot find any help on the net with integrating these two interfaces!

[DeadManWalking]

Any error messages? What is your OS? Windows 2000, XP, 2003 server?

[chiprivers]

No error messages!

 

Windows XP

[chiprivers]

I think the problem may possibly be something to do with first calling the program to run the command.

 

From what I undestand, when you use the exec() function it will run the command from the c:\> prompt, do I need to do something first so that I am have changed to C:\Program Files\SourceTec\fvec> before executing the command?

[chiprivers]

Really struggling with this, I have googled everything I can think of and just cant find anything to guide me in the right direction.  Is there anybody that has used the exec() function that may be able to help me walk through this one?

[corbin]

Cmd doesn't handle spaces and some other things all that well.... Try something like

 

exec('"c:\program files\your\program\thingy.exe" "c:\some\input\file.wmv" "c:\some\output\file.flv"');

[chiprivers]

Cmd doesn't handle spaces and some other things all that well.... Try something like

 

exec('"c:\program files\your\program\thingy.exe" "c:\some\input\file.wmv" "c:\some\output\file.flv"');

 

This may be the problem cos if I run this straight on the command prompt it only reads the line as far as c:\program and fails, I guess because of the space. HOw would I get around this?