Hi, i need some help on uploading, well its not so much the uploading part its the converting part i am having a problem with i want a person to upload a video but if its a video format other than flv i want that video to be converted to flv format can someone help me, step by step please.

Thank you,

Dear Antonio
You have to download a software known as FLV Convertor and then you can easily convert every format to FLV

Regards.
Shoaib Shahnawaz

Online converters are hard to find, and usually are part of YouTube like scripts.

Furthermore, on line converting might be very resources hungry so it will load the server a lot, if the videos are anything more than just a few minutes.

That could cause your account to be automatically suspended due to server overload.

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ya but what happens if i put a limit on the amount of mb a file can have, so if i do that then is it possible if you have a php code or something on how i can allow someone to upload a video and then once uploaded the code converts it to a flv format?

If not i do have a online program to do that just... well i don't really know how to install it onto my site its called flv tool and the ffmpeg. if u like i can show u the instructions on how to install it but i was confused on how, do u know how, if u can't find a php code that can convert any video files to flv.

If you have a suitable script, then yes, you can do it.
Are you sure that the tool you mentioned is ONLINE? meaning that CAN BE USED for online conversion on YOUR site ?

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yes i am sure its called ffmpeg and flvtool and etc. here is the instructions but i don't understand can u explain.

1. Create a directory to do our work in
mkdir ~/ffmpeg
cd ~/ffmpeg
2. Get all the source files
wget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ essential-20061022.tar.bz2
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9225/ flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ ogg/libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
3. Extract all the source files
bunzip2 essential-20061022.tar.bz2; tar xvf essential-20061022.tar
tar zxvf flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
tar zxvf lame-3.97.tar.gz
bunzip2 ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2; tar xvf ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tar
tar zxvf libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
4. Create the codecs directory & import them
mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
mv /essential-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/
5. Install SVN/Ruby (Depends on OS, this is for RHEL/CentOS)
yum install subversion
yum install ruby
yum install ncurses-devel
6. Get the latest FFMPEG/MPlayer from the subversion
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
7. Compile LAME
cd ~/ffmpeg/lame-3.97
./configure
make
make install
8. Compile libOGG
cd ~/ffmpeg/libogg-1.1.3
./configure
make
make install
9. Compile libVorbis
cd ~/ffmpeg/libvorbis-1.1.2
./configure
make
make install
10. Compile flvtool2
cd ~/ffmpeg/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install
11. Compile MPlayer
cd ~/ffmpeg/mplayer
./configure
make
make install
12. Compile FFMPEG
cd ~/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
./configure --enable-mp3lame --enable-libogg --enable-vorbis --disable-mmx --enable-shared
echo '#define HAVE_LRINTF 1' >> config.h
make
make install
13. Finalize the codec setups
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.50 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.50
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.51 /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.49 /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.51 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51
14. Compile FFMPEG-PHP
cd ~/ffmpeg/ ffmpeg-php-0.5.0
phpize
./configure
make
make install
15. Install FFMPEG-PHP (make sure the php.ini path is correct.)
echo 'extension=/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/ no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ffmpeg.so' >> /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini
16. Restart Apache to load FFMPEG-PHP (Depends on OS, this is for RHEL/CentOS)
service httpd restart
17. Verify if it works
php -r 'phpinfo();' | grep ffmpeg
If you get a few lines such as
ffmpeg
ffmpeg support (ffmpeg-php) => enabled
ffmpeg-php version => 0.5.0
ffmpeg.allow_persistent => 0 => 0
Then everything is installed and working. FFMPEG, FFMPEG-PHP, MPlayer, MEncoder, flv2tool, LAME MP3 encoder & libOGG.

so how do i install it onto my site using the instructions above? ciuz i really wanna install it but don't know how :( ^

The above instructions are for installation on a server where you have access and can compile php. In shared hosting you can NOT compile the additional features required, because you have no access to the core of the system.

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so i can't allow converting on my site....? =(