Casey Chu wrote: > Okay, sorry if I wasn't clear. I need to get frames from a WMV > dynamically with PHP. If the way to do is not a native PHP function, I > need to use an include() to get the functions because I can't use > extensions. extracting frames from a video file/stream is not quite at the same level of complexity as say extract a substring from a string - if you get my point. you will need to have the ffmpeg program available on your system, get your sys admin to install if it's not there. doing a quick search I found the following class which acts as a wrapper to the ffmpeg command line program (and as the blurb mentions doesn't require recompiling php or loading extensions): https://trac.phpgraphy.org/trac/browser/phpgraphy/trunk/base/include/yorsh-ffmpeg-wrapper.class.php?rev=367 there are probably other similar bits of code out and about if you do a thorough search. no doubt there are alternative programs that do what ffmpeg does but ffmepg is the only [free] one I could think of right now. > > On 1/7/07, Jochem Maas <jochem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Casey Chu wrote: >> > Hello. Is there a way to manipulate WMV files with PHP? I need to do >> > so with an include(). >> >> the mind boggles as to what the correlation is between needing to >> manipulate a file and having to use include. >> >> with regard to file manipulation - a file is a file is a file, if >> you can read from it and write to it then you can manipulate... >> undoubtedly >> that's not very helpful. >> >> try explaining what it is that you want to do with the WMV, there may be >> a way to do it. >> >> >> >> > >> >> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
