Below is a step-by-step how-to on installing ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php on CentOS 5.3. The reason we (or anyone really) have not published a script to automate the process is due to the complexity of the installation and the fact that it is very prone to failures along the way, almost always requiring some sort of human intervention.

How To Install Ffmpeg For Audacity

I was randomly browsing the internet and reading about making a website look better and I encountered ffmpeg-php. ffmpeg is a very powerful tool to record, convert and stream audio and video. Its a very rich tool almost supporting every format out there in the world. It can convert any format to any other format provided the codec. ffmpeg-php is an extension for PHP that provides a rich library to access info about audio and video files. The good thing about ffmpeg-php is that it can retrieve all info about any audio/video file subjected to the condition that the particular audio/video format is supported by your ffmpeg installation. So, now you have a clear idea that you can do wonders with audio/videos while showing them on your site 🙂

Ffmpeg-php version = 0.7.0 ffmpeg-php built on = Jul 28 2015 15:27:12 ffmpeg-php gd support = enabled ffmpeg libavcodec version = Lavc55.52.102 ffmpeg libavcodec license = GPL version 3 or later ffmpeg libavformat version = Lavf55.33.100 ffmpeg libavformat license = GPL version 3 or later ffmpeg swscaler version = SwS2.5.102.
Change to the ffmpeg-php extension directory and run phpize (included with your PHP installation) to build configuration files. Cd ffmpeg-php 2. Phpize Configure and build the extension. 1./configure && make Install the shared extension. Make install (as root) If everything went as planned, ffmpeg-php is now installed as a shared extension.
Jan 11, 2011 Download latest avalible package for FFMPEG-php. Step 1:- You can download this application from the below mentioned link and untar the entire package. #wget Untar the package file. Step 2:- Procedure to move the directory. #tar -xjf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2 Move into ffmpeg-php-0.6.0 directory.

I tried some of the functionalities and they worked out of the box. Here’s is complete how to on installing ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php.

Install Ffmpeg Mac

FFMPEG:

I tried installing ffmpeg from rpms provided by several Fedora repositories but after installation ffmpeg doesn’t seem to work. After several tries, I installed ffmpeg from source rpms and it worked. Top windows emulators for mac os. Below, I will describe how to install ffmpeg from source rpm.

Step 1:

Make sure that you have ‘rpmbuild’ installed by issuing

command. If the above says that rpmbuild is not installed, then install it using yum as given below

Step 2:

Download the latest src rpm of ffmpeg from rpmfind.net. Issue the command given below

Step 3:

Go to ‘/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/’ directory and issue the command given below

If it gives an error like package ‘xyz’ is need by ffmpeg. Then install the package ‘xyz’ using yum as

After installing the dependencies, issue the rpmbuild command ‘rpmbuild -ba ffmpeg.spec’. Now ffmpeg rpms will be build and they will be stored in ‘/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/’.

Step 4:

Go the ‘/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/’ (x86_64 instead of i386 if your OS is 64 bit). Install all the rpms that were built by rpmbuild.

How To Install Ffmpeg-php Centos

Thats it. ffmpeg is now successfully installed on your computer. Half the job is done. Now lets proceed with ffmpeg-php installation.

FFMPEG-PHP:

We will install ffmpeg-php from source bundle.

How To Install Ffmpeg-php On Linux Server

Step 1:

Make sure that ‘php-devel’ installed on your machine by issuing

command. If the above command says the ‘php-devel’ is not installed, then install it using the following command.

Step 2:

Download the latest version of ffmpeg-php from here. Unpack the file you have downloaded.

Step 3:

Issue the following command in sequence if everything goes fine.

How To Install Ffmpeg-php Hp

Step 4:

Open ‘/etc/php.ini’ and add a line ‘extension=ffmpeg.so’ in the category ‘Dynamic Extensions’. For help see the image below.

Step 5:

Restart apache web server aka ‘httpd’ service by issuing the command.

Step 6:

Write a test php file and test your ffmpeg-php installation.

How To Install Ffmpeg-php Ubuntu

Save the above code in ‘info.php’ and save the file in ‘/var/www/html/’ and browse http://localhost/info.php . If you see something like this.
Then the ffmpeg-php is successfully installed on your machine. Now you can jump into the world of video manipulation via your website.