I am working on WordPress plugin which can generate video from sequence of images. I read here that we can use FFMpeg and Imagemagick (or imagick) to implement this trick. But, FFMpeg is hardly supported on shared hosting. So, this option is ruled out.
I started working on Imagemagick. But, I was informed here that both of the above options cannot be used for WordPress. So, is there any feasible option for developing a video file out of images for WordPress???
I am storing sequence of images in /images folder and want to develop and video out of these images.
I appreciate any help.
What you’re trying to do is likely to upset shared hosters regardless because generating video is not cheap from a computational resource standpoint, and most rules on a shared host are because there isn’t much in the way of resources to begin with. You would be best carting your images off to a service that would do the job for you.
Trying to duplicate the work of ffmpeg etc in PHP will likely exceed the execution timeout, so you’re not going anywhere where shared hosts are concerned. You may be able to get away with GIFs, and keep ffmpeg support for those on a VPS