Installation
These instructions are for Linux. I don't know Windows or Mac.
Building the ffmpeg-php Extension
Unpack the ffmpeg-php sources
- tar -xjf ffmpeg-php-X.x.x.tbz2
Change to the ffmpeg-php extension directory and run phpize (included with your PHP installation) to build configuration files. NOTE: if your php installation does not include phpize, you may have to install a php-dev package for your distro (usually named: php-dev, php-devel or similar)
cd ffmpeg-php-X.x.x/phpize
Configure and build the extension.
./configure && make
Install the shared extension.
sudo make install
If everything went as planned, ffmpeg-php is now installed as a shared extension.
Configuration
If you've built ffmpeg-php as a shared extension but want to make it available to all scripts
by default, add extension=ffmpeg.so to your php.ini file to load ffmpeg-php at PHP startup. Make sure to restart apache when you are done to reload php.ini.
Testing the Installation
- Put the directory test_media and test_ffmpeg.php script under your web root somewhere (put both in the same directory).
- Load test_ffmpeg.php into your browser.
RESULTS: You should get a listing of the methods provided by the ffmpeg-php
module as well as some test output from the methods.
Usage
If you've the installed ffmpeg-php extension as a shared library but haven't set it to auto-load in your php.ini file, you'll need to use the PHP dl() function to make ffmpeg-php available to your scripts. Add the following PHP code to the beginning of scripts you want to call ffmpeg-php methods in.
<?php
$extension = "ffmpeg";
$extension_soname = $extension . "." . PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX;
$extension_fullname = PHP_EXTENSION_DIR . "/" . $extension_soname;
// load extension
if(!extension_loaded($extension)) {
dl($extension_soname) or die("Can't load extension $extension_fullname\n");
}
?>