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HowTo :: Install and configure FFmpeg and FFpeg-Php

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Posted: 15 Jul, 2007 by: Customer Service :: S. * * * * * Updated: 05 Jun, 2010 by: Customer Service :: S.

is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video segments. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library.

NOTES:

This guide had been used effectively on several Web production servers with CentOS v5.x and Red Hat v4/5, however there are some which might not be compatible. Moreover, this guide will install an OLD version of FFmpeg and FFmpeg-Php. To install the most recent and up-to-date versions of FFmpeg, FFmpeg-Php, and related modules/libraries sign up for the xPress (hourly) Plan.

Although this guide is designed for a Linux i386 powered server , it might work on a 86_64 system -- (proceed at your own risk.)
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There are two methods to install FFmpeg and FFmpeg-Php, their libraries, and modules:

Using Yum on systems including Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora Core.
Manually, from source archives/packages

Method #1: Yum

- *** Caution

You must remove all previous installation of FFmpeg and FFmpeg-Php, then follow installation instructions below.
Follow these steps (in that order):

First, make sure the following binary packages are installed on your server:

gcc, gcc4, gcc4-c++, gcc4-gfortran, gd, gd-devel, gmake, ImageMagick, ImageMagick-devel, libcpp, libgcc, libstdc++, make, ncurses, ncurses-devel, ruby, subversion

If any of these packages are missing, install them using Yum . For example:

yum install PACKAGE

Install RPMForge Respository
- rpm -Uhv ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/dag.wieers.com/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Install ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder with all supported libraries/modules
- yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel mplayer mencoder flvtool2
Manually, install FFmpeg-Php
- cd /usr/local/src
- wget http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2
- tar jxvf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2
- cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0
- phpize
- ./configure
- make
- make install

If FFmpeg-Php is compiled successfully, an ffmpeg.so module will be generated and copied into the default Php directory. Next, run the following command to enable FFmpeg-Php. By running this command you will be adding ffmpeg.so module into the php.ini file:

echo 'extension=ffmpeg.so' >> /local_path_to_your/php.ini

Final step, restart apache

service httpd restart
OR
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

- Testing FFmpeg
Verify that FFmpeg is working properly by running the following two commands:

php -r 'phpinfo();' | grep ffmpeg

You will get a few lines similar to the following:

ffmpeg
ffmpeg-php version => 0.6.0-svn
ffmpeg-php built on => April 15 2010 15:31:45
ffmpeg-php gd support => enabled
ffmpeg libavcodec version => Lavc51.62.0
ffmpeg libavformat version => Lavf52.18.0
ffmpeg swscaler => disabled
ffmpeg.allow_persistent => 0 => 0
ffmpeg.show_warnings => 0 => 0

This is the second command to make sure that FFmpeg is working properly:

/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

If you do not get any errors after running the test commands above, FFmpeg, FFmpeg-Php, MPlayer, MEncoder, and FLV2tool are working properly on your server. CONGRATULATIONS!

Method #2: Source archives/packages