> Anyone got any ideas as to how I can solve the following in PHP? > > I want to be able to select a file, and convert it from sox format to MP3 > or > WAV, and then play it in the requestors browser? Can this be achieved in > an > easy way? > > The problem I have is to be able to call up lame/sox or similar tools on > the linux web server, and once the newly converted file is available, > throw > it at the requesting browser as a file download?
Use exec or backticks to execute your program that does the conversion and writes the new file, then send the mp3,wav, etc headers and send the data from the newly created file. Depending on how long the conversion takes, you may want to redirect the user to the file after a certain amount of time and let the browser handle it. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
