Re: Converting MP3 to FLV On-The-Fly

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@binnun.co.il> 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@hessiess.com> 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. >> >> >