How to upload a video through PHP, and transcode it via FFmpeg

Question

Currently I am building a video streaming platform and I need a way to upload my videos, through multiple resolutions to my Wowza server. I am currently running Ubuntu with Nginx, PHP and Wowza so I want to be able to, when the user uploads the video, encode it to 1080p, 720p, 480p, and 360p. How would I do this?

Answer 1

You could take a look at the free, open source Video Share VOD solution that can manage video uploads, conversions to multiple formats. You could customise that to add more formats as necessary. It installs easily with WP framework, requires PHP and FFMPEG on server.