I don't have to let the user wait. The conversions will be done once 3 hours
using a cron job, they all will be listed in a mysql database.

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Michael Shadle <mike...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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<nit...@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, <hessi...@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.
> >>
> >>
> >
>

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