Server-Side FFMPEG Conversion

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I have a website i am working on that allows you to upload videos to it.

I use FFMPEG to convert the video to an flv, after upload, so the flash player can play it easily.

 

However i have a problem. i run a system command for ffmpeg using exec();. and it does work, but the page is loading for however long the conversion takes, as well as if the user closes the page, it will not fully convert.

 

What i want:

- once the video is uploaded, it sends a request to the server to do the conversion

- the conversion is done server-side and has nothing to do with the client-side (the user can close the browser window)

- code needs to be executed once the conversion is completed

 

now i have had a very hard time trying to figure this out, especially with the part where code is executed after the conversion is finished.

 

can anyone give me some ideas please?

[zq29]

You could add it to a queue and loop through it with a cron job? By queue, I mean add a reference to the file and user in a table and put together a script that loops through them running the conversion process then remove them from your queue table.