combining .mov movies with php

Question

I have quicktime movies uploaded to my server that I need to combine together (there are sound tracks too). I cannot install ffmpeg (or anything else for that matter away from standard PEAR stuff).

I suppose an option open to me would be to open up the files with php. Can anyone provide any pointers on how to do this. Am I entering a world of pain?

Thanks in advance

Tudor

Answer 1

Am I entering a world of pain?

Probably yes. :)

I'm not familiar with the internal workings of the mov format, but if the format is not like MP3 (in which you can actually simply just glue two files together and they'll work in most players!), what you want to do is most likely not possible in pure PHP.