Javascript – Static progress bar as background of table cell

The approach you suggest is not guaranteed to give you the result you're looking for - what if you had a tbody for example:

<table id="myTable">
  <tbody>
    <tr>...</tr>
    <tr>...</tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

You would end up with the following:

<table id="myTable">
  <tbody>
    <tr>...</tr>
    <tr>...</tr>
  </tbody>
  <tr>...</tr>
</table>

I would therefore recommend this approach instead:

$('#myTable tr:last').after('<tr>...</tr><tr>...</tr>');

You can include anything within the after() method as long as it's valid HTML, including multiple rows as per the example above.

Update: Revisiting this answer following recent activity with this question. eyelidlessness makes a good comment that there will always be a tbody in the DOM; this is true, but only if there is at least one row. If you have no rows, there will be no tbody unless you have specified one yourself.

DaRKoN_ suggests appending to the tbody rather than adding content after the last tr. This gets around the issue of having no rows, but still isn't bulletproof as you could theoretically have multiple tbody elements and the row would get added to each of them.

Weighing everything up, I'm not sure there is a single one-line solution that accounts for every single possible scenario. You will need to make sure the jQuery code tallies with your markup.

I think the safest solution is probably to ensure your table always includes at least one tbody in your markup, even if it has no rows. On this basis, you can use the following which will work however many rows you have (and also account for multiple tbody elements):

$('#myTable > tbody:last-child').append('<tr>...</tr><tr>...</tr>');

I've been playing around with this for a few days. That "ffmpegprogress" thing helped, but it was very hard to get to work with my set up, and hard to read the code.

In order to show the progress of ffmpeg you need to do the following:

1. run the ffmpeg command from php without it waiting for a response (for me, this was the hardest part)
2. tell ffmpeg to send it's output to a file
3. from the front end (AJAX, Flash, whatever) hit either that file directly or a php file that can pull out the progress from ffmpeg's output.

Here's how I solved each part:

1. I got the following idea from "ffmpegprogress". This is what he did: one PHP file calls another through an http socket. The 2nd one actually runs the "exec" and the first file just hangs up on it. For me his implementation was too complex. He was using "fsockopen". I like CURL. So here's what I did:

$url = "http://".$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]."/path/to/exec/exec.php";
curl_setopt($curlH, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$postData = "&cmd=".urlencode($cmd);
$postData .= "&outFile=".urlencode("path/to/output.txt");
curl_setopt($curlH, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($curlH, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);

curl_setopt($curlH, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

// # this is the key!
curl_setopt($curlH, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);
$result = curl_exec($curlH);

Setting CURLOPT_TIMEOUT to 1 means it will wait 1 second for a response. Preferably that would be lower. There is also the CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS which takes milliseconds, but it didn't work for me.

After 1 second, CURL hangs up, but the exec command still runs. Part 1 solved.

BTW - A few people were suggesting using the "nohup" command for this. But that didn't seem to work for me.

*ALSO! Having a php file on your server that can execute code directly on the command line is an obvious security risk. You should have a password, or encode the post data in some way.

2. The "exec.php" script above must also tell ffmpeg to output to a file. Here's code for that:

exec("ffmpeg -i path/to/input.mov path/to/output.flv 1> path/to/output.txt 2>&1");

Note the "1> path/to/output.txt 2>&1". I'm no command line expert, but from what I can tell this line says "send normal output to this file, AND send errors to the same place". Check out this url for more info: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/io-redirection.html

3. From the front end call a php script giving it the location of the output.txt file. That php file will then pull out the progress from the text file. Here's how I did that:

// # get duration of source
preg_match("/Duration: (.*?), start:/", $content, $matches);

$rawDuration = $matches[1];

// # rawDuration is in 00:00:00.00 format. This converts it to seconds.
$ar = array_reverse(explode(":", $rawDuration));
$duration = floatval($ar[0]);
if (!empty($ar[1])) $duration += intval($ar[1]) * 60;
if (!empty($ar[2])) $duration += intval($ar[2]) * 60 * 60;


// # get the current time
preg_match_all("/time=(.*?) bitrate/", $content, $matches); 

$last = array_pop($matches);
// # this is needed if there is more than one match
if (is_array($last)) {
    $last = array_pop($last);
}

$curTime = floatval($last);


// # finally, progress is easy
$progress = $curTime/$duration;

Hope this helps someone.