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Video Conversion Method

  • 11-04-2008 09:17AM
    #1
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hey,
    Does anyone know of a system using PHP that would allow a user to upload a video file from their PC and then convert it into a more appropriate file for online viewing? Something similar to YouTube.

    Suggestions appreciated.


Comments

  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    You know, I'd be very surprised if YouTube were doing video conversion on upload. Personally, how I'd tackle it would be to have a separate conversion application running on a different server and either cron job the conversion of videos uploaded to a specific folder, or add the newly uploaded file to a conversion queue.

    PHP is very unlikely to have an application to do this, you would probably have to call something like ffmpeg from your page.


  • #3
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    As far as I am aware, when you upload a video like avi to YouTube it convers it into an FLV format. Iv googled but cant seem to find any scripts just programs for Windows to convert on your PC and then upload.


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