Finally got FFMpeg-php working on my windows development server. Now i can finally start working on some real movie magic. So far i made some example code to read the Meta from the video and create thumbnails. Not sure how much I will implement it but it feels great just to have it working. Been trying for weeks and it really started to get to me. In the end it was just finding the right match of ffmpeg-php and php. I’ve been using wampserver so it’s kinda hard to get the right php version.

It was more of a can I get it working thing then something I needed. Reading and writing video data is very resource consuming and it’s sheer lunacy to do this on a shared hosting server. Your probably kicked off the server before you finished trans-coding your first video.

Abridged version for the tl;dr crowd: Yay It works! and now what?