This is an example of how to implement a video upload, conversion and display with ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php. This is meant as a beginners guide to getting started with ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php and not a full implementation of how you would include it in a live site, as there is room for much improvement in error cathching and security. This demonstration assumes the installation of both ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php on the server that will be running these scripts. We will be creating 3 files for this...

This article explains how to install ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php on Mac OS X. ffmpeg is a command line tool used to convert video and audio formats. It allows you to convert audio and video between any of its supported formats. ffmpeg-php is an extension for php that allows you to access information about the movies/videos from within php. The actual commands to convert the video must still be executed with functions such as exec() or system(), but by having ffmpeg-php you can test the video(say...