convert a video file to FLV format using FFMPEG

you can user FFMPEG to convert a video file to flv format. following is the code block that will show you how to convert a video to flv format.

function makeflv()
    {
        //this is the path of the video file that you want to convert
        $video  = $this->baseDir."/".$this->video_name;
      
        //this is the path of the converted flv file with name
        $flv_video  = $this->baseDir."/".strtok($this->video_name,".").'.flv';

        $cmd = "$this->ffmpeg -i $video -deinterlace -ar 44100 -r 25 -qmin 3 -qmax 6 $flv_video";
        $return = `$cmd`;

        $flv = strtok($userfile_name,".").'.flv';

        return $flv;
    }

this will return the converted flv file