Upload and play video files.

I have a media page on my site, where users can upload pictures, and they display on the site. Im wondering if i could do this with videos as well. Also, I would like to know if i could make so admins have to approve the image before it gets posted on the site (logic not code). I think it would be fairly simple.

Thanks in advance =]

 

Hi Mate,

you could do this on your server, who do you host with? there is a few bits of software needed to convert the uploaded file to .flv (flash) example code on one of my sites would be:

     function make_flv($uploadedmoviesdir,$outputflvdirectory,$var_loggedinuser) {
     
       $timestamp = time();
     
       ## convert string
       $encode = "/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i $uploadedmoviesdir -sameq -acodec mp3 -ar 22050 -ab 32 -f flv -s 320x240 $outputflvdirectory";       
       $scrcap = "/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i $outputflvdirectory -s 320x240 -ss 00:00:05 -t 00:00:01 -f image2 flvmovies/screencaps/$var_loggedinuser-$timestamp-screencap.jpg";
       //$filein = "/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i $outputflvdirectory 2> flvmovies/filestats/$var_loggedinuser-$timestamp-info.txt";
       
          
       ## execute
       exec($encode);
       exec($scrcap);
       //exec($filein);
       
       return("$var_loggedinuser-$timestamp-screencap.jpg");
     
     }

PHP:

this also makes a screencap of the video! and im using dreamhost

hope it helps

Graham

 

what software woudl i need? Im using godaddy for my hosting.

also, how would i impliment this script?

 

Hi Mate,

could you check with them they have ffmpeg support! thats really it the rest is fairly easy i can write a function for you

Graham