hi all

we are working on something that will convert email video attachments to video files
the attachment as read with php shows up as a big long string

what we would like is something similar to php's imagecreatefromstring()
but obviously there's no videocreatefromstring

can ffmpeg convert a video in string format to an actual video?
eg. ffmeg -i --convert-string-to-video videoinstringformat.3gp -b 50 -vcodec mpeg4 videoinbinaryformat.mp4

thanks
dave