I don't have to let the user wait. The conversions will be done once 3 hours using a cron job, they all will be listed in a mysql database. On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Michael Shadle <mike503@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would also batch it. Keeping a user waiting (unless you have a > "please wait..." screen, which still can take some time and be a bad > user experience) in my experience hasn't been ideal and won't scale > very well. > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Nitsan Bin-Nun<nitsan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > I thought of using FFMPEG but I have a bit of experience with it. > > Any links or more specific directions would be great. > > > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM, <hessiess@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> > Hi Lista > >> > > >> > I'm trying to figure how I can turn MP3 files into FLV files on the > fly > >> > using PHP. > >> > I'm having a server and I can install 3rd party software in order to > >> > accomplish this conversion. > >> > > >> > I have never dealt before with music file comression or anything > similar > >> > so > >> > I don't know what I should look after or where I should look. > >> > > >> > Any idea would be very appreciated! > >> > > >> > Thanks! > >> > Nitsan > >> > > >> > >> You may want to use some sort of caching, converting media formats is > very > >> computationally demanding. You could use FFMPEG to do the conversion. > >> > >> > > >
