shell_exec background process *Windows*

[WorldDrknss]

I am trying to get a shell_exec command to run in the background.

 

So far I have tried:

$ret = shell_exec($ffmpegcmd1." >NUL 2>&1");

$ret = shell_exec($ffmpegcmd1." >NUL 2>&1 &");

$ret = shell_exec($ffmpegcmd1." >NUL");

 

without any luck.

[WorldDrknss]

:bump:

[lessthanthree]

What are you trying to do?

What does $ffmpegcmd1 contain?

What are you doing with $ret?

Any Errors?

Does your PHP ini allow shell exec?

[WorldDrknss]

shell_exec does work since it is converting the videos and thumbnails. I do not receive any errors, but what I am trying to do is get the process to run in the background so that it will not hang up PHP.

 

function convertmedia($filename){
$inputdir = "../../media/vgallery/originals";
$outputdir = "../../media/vgallery/flv";
$samplerate = "22050";
$bitrate = "32";
$size = "400x300";
$ext = substr($filename, strrpos($filename, '.') + 0);
$strext = str_replace($ext, "", $filename);
$outfile = time()."_".$strext.".flv";
$ffmpegcmd1 = "ffmpeg -i ".$inputdir."/".$filename." -acodec mp3 -ar ".$samplerate." -ab ".$bitrate." -f flv -s ".$size." ".$outputdir."/".$outfile;
error_reporting(E_ALL);	
$ret = shell_exec($ffmpegcmd1);
echo $ffmpegcmd1."<br />";
return $outfile;
}

[WorldDrknss]

bump

[MadTechie]

try a background task

ie

$ret = shell_exec('start /B "converting" "'.$ffmpegcmd1.'"');