convert using ffmpeg without exec

Question

I have Windows XP, Apache, PHP 5.3 and ffmpeg working fine. I need to convert flv to avi or vice versa without using the exec() command. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Another option would be to utilize Suhosin. You could then at least limit where exactly the system call can from and in turn limit access to that directory.

Here's an basic example of a vhost.conf config where shell_exec is blocked everywhere in your domain except ffmpeg-folder utilizing Suhosin

ServerName your.server
DocumentRoot "/var/your/public_html"
php_admin_value suhosin.executor.func.blacklist "shell_exec, passthru, show_source, system, pcntl_exec, popen, pclose, proc_open, proc_nice, proc_terminate, proc_get_status, proc_close, leak, apache_child_terminate, posix_kill, posix_mkfifo, posix_setpgid, posix_setsid, posix_setuid, escapeshellcmd, escapeshellarg, exec"


php_admin_value suhosin.executor.func.blacklist "passthru, show_source, system, pcntl_exec, popen, pclose, proc_open, proc_nice, proc_terminate, proc_get_status, proc_close, leak, apache_child_terminate, posix_kill, posix_mkfifo, posix_setpgid, posix_setsid, posix_setuid, escapeshellcmd, escapeshellarg, exec"