Northern Flame Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Flame Posted January 20, 2008 Author Share Posted January 20, 2008 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Flame Posted January 20, 2008 Author Share Posted January 20, 2008 thanks i will review the manual and hopefully i can get this to work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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