Streaming Videos and Video Format Conversion to .flv

[maxshooter21]

Hi there,

I am thinking to run a website which allows member of the site to upload videos in avi, mpg and .mov formats. I am not sure that how i can convert those videos to .flv format so that they can be played in flash player on my "View My Videos" Section of site.

Please note that I have developed an Admin panel where I can see and download the uploaded videos and then manually convert them to the desired format using my Desktop based Format Conversion software. What I want is to know if there is a way that I don't need to download the videos from the site and convert them on the server using my Admin Panel (created in php/mysql)?

Are there any such conversion utilities available (Free or Paid) ...that help me to just simply run a shell command from my php script and do the conversion to .flv format from .mov, .avi, .wmv and .mpg formats?

Please help me, Any help is highly appreciated. This is really a critical issue for me and i will be highly obliged if somebody could suggest me something better around the problem.

[alce]

I am not 100% sure but I believe that is not possible. As far as I know, to convert to .flv you need to use either Sorenson squeeze or flash itself and I doubt you can do it via shell commands.

[maxshooter21]

thanks aIce, have you ever been to youtube.com? they allow such functionality. I dont know how they convert video files from different formats to be displayed in flash player.

Do you know any such free tool that can display movies in flash player like they do at youtube.com?

[oxbaker]

flash 8 allows importing of many different types of video files. It contains its own "mini" version of Sorenson Squeeze which is the standard for converting video to flash and other formats.

mcm

[kapsula]

I know different converters which do conversion in nessessary format 4 u.

for example, look here [geovid.com...]

[kabanero]

Here is free Riva FLV Encoder:

[rivavx.com...]