ffmpeg php api,php-ffmpeg

Installing FFMpeg

yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel

If you get package not found,then you will need to add few lines in the yum repository for dag packages installation. Create a file named dag.repo in/etc/yum.repos.d with the following contents on it [dag]

name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag

gpgcheck=1

enabled=1

then

yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel

If everything is fine, then the installation should proceed smoothly. If not you will get something like warning GPG public key missing .

Install FFMPEG-PHP Extension

FFmpeg-php is a very good extension and wrapper for PHP which can pull useful information about video through API interface. Inorder to install it you will need to download the source file and then compile and install extension in your server. You can download the source tarball : http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/

wget /path/to/this/file/ffmpeg-php-0.5.2.1.tbz2

tar -xjf ffmpeg-0.5.2.1.tbz2

phpize

./configure

make

make install

Common Errors

1. If you get command not found error for phpize, then you will need to do yum install php-devel

2. If you get error like “ffmpeg headers not found” while configuring the source.

configure: error: ffmpeg headers not found. Make sure ffmpeg is compiled as shared libraries using the –enable-shared option

then it means you have not installedffmpeg-devel packages.

To Fix: Just install ffmpeg-devel using

yum install ffmpeg-devel

3.If you get an error like shared libraries not found problem and the program halts in the middle, then you must specify the ffmpeg installed path explicitly to the ./configure.

configure: error: ffmpeg shared libraries not found. Make sure ffmpeg is compiled as shared libraries using the –enable-shared option

To Fix:

1. First find out the ffmpeg path with ffmpeg –help command. The prefix default path should be like /usr/local/cpffmpeg

2. Configure the FFmpeg-php with –with-ffmpeg option

./configure –with-ffmpeg=/usr/local/cpffmpeg

That should resolve the problem!

Editing PHP.INI

Once you have done that without any problems then you will see the php extension file /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/ffmpeg.so and you will need mention that extension in php.ini file

nano /usr/local/lib/php.ini

Put the below two lines at the end of the php.ini file [ffmpeg]

extension=ffmpeg.so

Then restart the server service httpd restart

To check whether ffmpeg enabled with php, point your browser to test.php file. It should show the confirmation of installed ffmpeg php extension

// #test.php

phpinfo()

?>