Convert to FLV?

Hello,
Is it possible to allow a person to upload a video and have the server or php convert the video file to a FLV file?

 

yes, you need ffmpeg and or mencoder.

If you have root access to the server theres an installer for everything you need on my site.

The most basic command for converting a video with ffmpeg would be :

ffmpeg -i movie.ext out.flv

^you can use that with exec in php or whatever language you choose

 

So if I have FFMPEG installed and I want to convert a video.avi files in the /videos directory to out.flv in the /flv directory what PHP code would I use?

regards

 

<?
function ffmpeg_c( $input, $output )
{
 exec( "ffmpeg -i $input $output", $data );
 return $data;
}
ffmpeg_c( dirname(__FILE__) . "/videos/video.avi", dirname(__FILE__) . "/flv/out.flv");
?>

PHP:

something like that

 

hello
i would like to see the installer you have made but site is not loading for me

 

Is this possible to do without FFMPEG?

 

There are other encoders out there, only I dunno how to use them, ffmpeg is easy to use and supports most any codec ...

krakjoe.com is working for me :S

 

Only problem, is that my host doesn't have it installed, and they want me to upgrade in order to get it.

 

Well, if they dont have ffmpeg installed they aren't likely to have any other encoding / transcoding software installed on the server, and if they do, they will probably still require you to upgrade your account to use it.

I would just bite the bullet and upgrade your account ............

 

The upgrade is almost 3x more expensive. I think i will just encode them manually for now.

 

If nothing works, change your webhost. Go to Devshed forums and ask for your requirements.

 

Do you have shell access on your account ??

I can put together a script that will build ffmpeg without being the root user, but it won't be able to build the ffmpeg-php library and you require an unjailed shell also .....

Like Aragorn said, I really would change webhost, lots and lots of people have it, and far more would be willing to install it at no cost to you.

 

They have agreed to install ffmpeg, without the other video sharing components what ever that means.

 

They installed FFMPEG. I ran the following code:

<?
function ffmpeg_c( $input, $output )
{
 exec( "ffmpeg -i $input $output", $data );
 return $data;
}
ffmpeg_c("videos/thepiano.wmv","flv/out.flv");
?>

Code (markup):

But it outputted a flv file that was 0kb...

 

Can someone recommend a reasonably priced host that has FFMPEG installed as standard?

 

I do

http://hozter.info

The chances are they just installed ffmpeg without checking any of it's prerequisites ......

 

I have just tried:

<?
function ffmpeg_c( $input, $output )
{
 exec( "ffmpeg -i $input $output", $data );
 return $data;
}
ffmpeg_c("videos/thepiano.wmv","flv/out.flv");
?>

Code (markup):

On my new host and it didnt output any file at all. Any advice?

 

Ah its okay. It works now. I just didnt have the correct permissions.

 

I have just tried to convert a 95mb WMV file with FFMPEG but the output file is 0k. Does it take time to process or is there something that I should know in terms of file size limits?

 

WMV codecs are not included in the default install I don't think, you'd have to search about for the correct codecs for the video you wanna process......

Before I write code to interact with something online, I'll download whatever software Im working with and test it locally, you can get prebuilt ffmpeg binaries and ffplay ones from the ffmpeg site somewhere, I suggest you get them and try whatever code your trying to use locally first, this eliminates quite a few problems before you started..........