Convert Files?

[Northern Flame]

I have been wanting to learn how to convert videos

to .flv for awhile, and since it can't be done with PHP,

can someone point me to a language that can do it?

And maybe give me a tutorial on doing something like

this? I was thinking that Perl might be able to do this

but I whenever I google this subject I just get sent

to websites that offer programs that do it for you. And

I want my server to do it after a user uploads a video.

Can anyone help me with this?

[Northern Flame]

oh i just asked my web host and ffmpeg is installed

on my server. So can anyone point me to a tutorial

on how to use ffmpeg?

[trq]

I want my server to do it after a user uploads a video.

 

Then the easiest way is to make sure your server has the right software installed (ffmpeg comes to mind). Lots of programming languages use other tools / programs to do alot of there dirty work. What do you think a php extension is? It's basically just an interface to some other software.

 

I know there is no ffmpeg extension, but its quite simple to use it via the exec function. If you wanted to go ahead and write an extension for it, C is the language you would need to learn.

 

o can anyone point me to a tutorial

on how to use ffmpeg?

 

the manual.

[Northern Flame]

thanks

 

i will review the manual and hopefully i can get this to work