Server side flash video creation

[skunkbad]

I'm wondering if something is possible using php. Here's the idea.

1) Users upload various video files (mpg, avi, wmv, whatever).

2) Admin previews the video, and if the video is acceptable, clicks a button that automatically turns it into a flash swf file, and adds the video to a database with some keywords. It would have to be an automated process because the amount of videos to preview might be enormous.

3) Users can search the site for keywords, and see flash videos when selected.

All of this sounds normal, except for the automatic flash video creation.

Any ideas? Maybe a non-php solution? I'm a php guy, and have looked at Ming, but it doesn't seem to do what I want it to do.

[Mute]

What are you on about? You don't sound like a 'php guy' to be honest.

First off, why do you want to convert vids into .swf ?? To play them or just store them in a DB? if the latter then what's the point? If so you can easily have it stream off your server then why not just freaking embed the thing into a .swf player?

Maybe i misunderstood you, but i highly doubt that tbh

[skunkbad]

Client wants the flash video. The way I have done flash video in the past is to encode the source video to flash FLV. If there's some other way to do it, then I don't have a clue. I have the old Flash Pro 8, but really don't like working with flash, so I never really got good at it. If the video doesn't have to be encoded to be used in a flash player of some kind, then please show me.

I think the idea is that the client expects to have way too many videos to encode manually. Also, he may assume that having the video inside flash would make it resistant to being saved to a users hard drive.