Developer guide

🐘 MKV to WEBP with PHP

Extract WebP images from MKV video files for thumbnails, previews, frames, and content workflows.

PHPREST APIMKV → WEBP

Use this guide to convert MKV to WEBP with PHP, then adapt the example to your own app, backend, or processing flow.

Overview

What this guide covers

Conversion path

Use Converterer to accept or prepare a MKV file, trigger a MKV to WEBP job, and return the output to your app or workflow.

PHP example

Start with the example on this page, then adapt auth, file handling, polling, and result delivery to your environment.

Production usage

This is best suited to backend jobs, async processing, content pipelines, and repeatable conversion flows rather than one-off browser scripting.

Quick start

Get a working example in place

Code example

MKV to WEBP

<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://api.converterer.com/convert');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_USERPWD => getenv('CONVERTERER_API_KEY') . ':',
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => [
        'input' => new CURLFile('input.mkv'),
        'output_format' => 'webp',
    ],
]);

$task = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
echo $task['id'];
// Result lands at <your-destination>/<id>.webp

Implementation notes

What to handle in your app

API endpoint

Conversion endpoint

https://api.converterer.com/convert

Use your API key for authentication and submit the source file plus the target output format in your job request.

App responsibilities

source file upload or storage handoff
job submission and status handling
success/failure handling in your backend
download or delivery of the WEBP output

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