Server-side video conversion and compression

Question

I want to provide an automatic video-converter for my CMS-customers. They should be able to upload their "untouched" video-files (MP4, VMV, AVI, ...) and my server compresses and converts it to a Web-friendly MP4-file (exactly like YouTube makes it).

The result is clear:

Web-friendly MP4-format
Compressed to tolerable file size

So I'm looking for a PHP-API or Linux-shell-script to realise this.

Is there a easy way to handle this?

Edit: YouTube-embedded videos are not a solution for me.

rjdown · Answer 1 · 2014-10-27T16:27:20.437

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Have a look at http://www.ffmpeg.org/ it's pretty much the go-to library for this sort of thing.

I found a PHP driver for it here that looks interesting but I've not tried it. Still, it's easy enough to run the shell commands directly from PHP if needed.

edited Oct 27 '14 at 16:27

answered Oct 27 '14 at 16:12

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Yes, I will run it directly from PHP via exec(); I look how it works now. Thanks. – Luca Nate Mahler Oct 27 '14 at 16:31
@Luca Nate Mahler, did you ever get this working as you described? I am looking into a similar set up. – David McCarran Aug 12 '15 at 22:10
@DavidMcCarran Not really :/ – Luca Nate Mahler Sep 18 '15 at 08:16

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