Thread: How to 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. In order to install it you will need to download the source file and then compile and install the extension in your server.

You can download the source tarball :

ffmpeg-php

Code:

wget {download link to ffmpeg-latest_release.tbz2}

Code:

tar -xjf ffmpeg-latest_release.tbz2

Code:

cd ffmpeg-latest_release
phpize
./configure
make
make install

Common Errors

1. If you get command not found error for phpize, then you will need to do

Code:

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 installed ffmpeg-devel packages.

To Fix: Just install ffmpeg-devel using

Code:

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

Code:

./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

Code:

nano -w /usr/local/lib/php.ini

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

Code:

[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

phpinfo.php

Code:

<?
phpinfo()
?>

You should see something like:

ffmpeg
ffmpeg-php version 0.6.0-svn
ffmpeg-php built on Jun 1 2010 22:55:19
ffmpeg-php gd support enabled
ffmpeg libavcodec version Lavc52.20.0
ffmpeg libavformat version Lavf52.31.0
ffmpeg swscaler version SwS0.7.1

Directive Local Value Master Value
ffmpeg.allow_persistent 0 0
ffmpeg.show_warnings 0 0

If any case the ffmpeg does not show in the phpinfo() test make sure that php.ini path to ffmpeg.so is correct.

Easy huh! Good luck!

Smoge

If you are a Dolphin user, and you want to use System FFMPEG, you will need to search your files for ffmpeg.exe , and do some editing (remove the .exe) and fix the paths, so the system FFMPEG will be used.

Just a heads up on that.... I did this mod for someone, and posted about it here:
http://www.modmysite.com/boonex-dolp...ancements.html

but I have not gotten around to releasing it (been busy with other things).

Smoge