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-IK-	Apr 14th, 2008 8:55 AM

HELP: ffmpeg-php

PHP newb here...

ffmpeg-php is a PHP extension that adds functions for accessing and retrieving information from movies and audio files. ffmpeg-php provides access to the many audio and video formats supported by ffmpeg.

ffmpeg-php requires ffmpeg to be installed on the host system and here is my question.

I am going to buy web hosting services from a web host (probably one.com). Will I be able to install the ffmpeg application on their web server in order to install and use ffmpeg-php?

Thanks for any help.

lectricpharaoh

Apr 14th, 2008 1:31 PM

Re: HELP: ffmpeg-php

This is a question you should ask your hosting service of choice. I'd expect the default answer is 'no', unless you're paying for a dedicated server. With shared hosting, they need to restrict things to prevent one user from buggering up things for the rest.

zipe	May 11th, 2008 2:43 PM

Re: HELP: ffmpeg-php

I just call ffmpeg on command line with php's exec(). It's working fine and pretty fast, didn't want to mess with ffmpeg-php nor installing anything. If your host supports exec() etc. probably you can do it(php safe mode off?).

E.g.:
Put ffmpeg.exe to ".../apache/domain.com/ffmpeg.exe"
Then:

<?php

$fil="c:/videos/movie.mpg";

$command="\"C:\\Progra~1\\Apache~1\\Apache2\\htdocs\\domain.com\\ffmpeg.exe -y -i ".str_replace("/","\\"."\\",$fil)." -vframes 1 -ss 1 -an -vcodec png -f rawvideo -s 160x120 thumbnails\\thumbnail_".md5($fil).".png\"";

exec($command);

?>

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