Hey, it was said that I should mail this problem round the list for help at the last meeting. I've come across a couple of problems in a piece of web development I've undertaken.<br><br><br>It's kinda like a youtube clone in that I need to upload large videos, create previews of them by converting, watermark them to keep copyright and create a thumbnail.
<br><br>ffmpeg was suggested and evidently it's a widely used option for this kind of task. The problem is that the hosting plan which has been bought already(out of my control) have pulled the plug on ffmpeg support as it's a shared environment and was causing resource issues.
<br><br>So what I was wondering was, can someone suggest something that would perform those three jobs(convert, watermark, thumb) - preferably in one package - which could be installed? Or perhaps is there any way to create a 'stand-alone' ffmpeg program that could be hosted and called from our document root? I don't know about that, doubting the possibility and it probably breaches some term agreement anyway...
<br><br>Secondly, the upload of very large video files(a few hundred megs) would have to be handled through a web interface and the brief stipulates using FTP. Would this be possible using PHP's inbuilt FTP functions or would it die before it got close? So far I've had problems getting even a simple PHP FTP upload of a text file to work although I don't think the problem is with the FTP login, it doesn't produce an error, rather that it's something to do with how I'm specifying the local file. If PHP is a viable option, could somebody kindly explain how I would be able to use a file input browse button to upload a file using the FTP connection? I tried givint the fput function the $_FILES's name variable as the local path but it doesn't like that. I don't understand, sorry for the ignorance.
<br><br>Again, if PHP FTP isn't a good option, can someone suggest any alternative for handling large uploads through the browser using FTP?<br><br>Phew, if anybody has bothered to trawl through this babble whinging about my project's woes then i am truly grateful and would become ecstatic should anyone be able to provide some help. Even pointing in the right direction would be of use as I'm a bit lost just now.
<br><br>Many many thanks and thanks in advance,<br><br>Chris<br><br><3 the penguins =P<br>