Installing FFMPEG and FFMPEG-PHP

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Posted by Kevin Stange, Last modified by Kevin Stange on 24 July 2009 05:36 PM

This article explains how to install FFMPEG and FFMPEG-PHP on your server. It assumes you are running CentOS or Fedora.

Installing FFMPEG and related packages

DAG provides good RPM packages for CentOS and Fedora releases which can be used for this purpose. Visit: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B Follow the directions to install the RPM package for the version of Linux you are running.
Run the following command to install the FFMPEG packages: yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel mplayer mencoder flvtool2 libogg libvorbis lame

FFMPEG should now be installed. The programs for mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg, flv2tool and lame should be located in /usr/bin.

Installing FFMPEG-PHP

This process varies by control panel and requires that you complete the section above first. Please find the correct section for your control panel.

Plesk or InterWorx

Run the following command to make it possible to compile FFMPEG-PHP yum -y install php-devel
Run these commands to compile and install the module: cd /root wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2 tar -xjf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2 cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0 phpize ./configure make install
Run the following command to activate the module within PHP: echo 'extension = "ffmpeg.so"' > /etc/php.d/ffmpeg.ini


Restart Apache so that PHP reloads:
service httpd restart



cPanel or DirectAdmin


Run these commands to compile and install the module:
cd /root

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2

tar -xjf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2

cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0

phpize

./configure

make install

Run the following commands to activate the module within PHP:
EDIR=`php-config --extension-dir`

sed -i "s%^extension_dir%extension_dir = \"$EDIR\"\nextension = \"ffmpeg.so\"\n#\0%" /usr/local/lib/php.ini

Restart Apache so that PHP reloads:
service httpd restart


Your installation should be complete.  You should now be able to use FFMPEG-PHP via your PHP scripts.

Please note that if you ever upgrade PHP to a newer version in which the major and minor numbers change, you must repeat this step.  For example, if you were using PHP 4.4.7 and you upgrade to 4.4.8 you do not need to do anything, but if you upgrade from 4.4.7 to 4.5.0 or to 5.0.0, you would need to reinstall the PHP module.

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Scott Shepherd

08 March 2008 08:47 AM

Note: for minimal CentOS install you may need to install gcc, gcc-c++, in order to compile ffmpeg-php.

yum -y install gcc gcc-c++