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• . Jérôme | January 7, 2008 at 4:09 pm | Permalink

  Thanks a lot for your tutorial! I performed the installation on a Debian Etch server and had to change some commands, but that was really easy to find out.

  Again, thank you!
  - Jérôme

• . BinaryPhalanx | January 8, 2008 at 6:13 am | Permalink

  It’s a bit simpler on debian/ubuntu:

  sudo apt-get install lame libvorbisidec1 ruby mplayer ffmpeg

  the only thing you need to install manually is flvtool2 which can be done via the steps you detailed:
  wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17497/flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz
  tar zxvf flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz
  cd flvtool2-1.0.6/
  ruby setup.rb config
  ruby setup.rb setup
  ruby setup.rb install

• . Daniel | January 8, 2008 at 6:48 pm | Permalink

  Holy crap, thank you so much.

  Very detailed… Wish I read past the initial ./configure… instructions for ffmpeg rather than spending 10 minutes setting up the DAG rpm repositories…

• . Geoff | January 15, 2008 at 7:42 am | Permalink

  Thanks

• . Henry | February 25, 2008 at 3:41 pm | Permalink

  hi, great guide, but I get this error

  checking for ffmpeg headers… configure: error: ffmpeg headers not found. Make sure you’ve built ffmpeg as shared libs using the –enable-shared option

  I have used every single line from top to bottom in this guide, but when i got to the
  cd /usr/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/
  phpize
  ./configure && make && make install
  i got the above error,
  any help would be greatly appreciated

• . Nessa | February 25, 2008 at 9:07 pm | Permalink

  ./configure –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libvorbis –disable-mmx –enable-shared

  I know it doesn’t come up well in the post, but make sure you’re using double dashes before each option first.

  What is are the errors right before the error that you posted? Usually it’ll say that something is missing, then give you the ‘ffmpeg headers no found’ error. ..possible something about libav*

• . Henry | February 26, 2008 at 11:37 am | Permalink

  Hi!
  Thanks for the reply,

  I did use double dashes when installing the ffmpeg and used the –enable-shared option,
  however when I reached the ffmpeg-php installation it said that ffmpeg hearder were not found.

  the message before the error was like this:

  checking for gawk… gawk
  checking for ffmpeg support… yes, shared
  checking for ffmpeg headers… configure: error: ffmeg headers not found. Make sure you’ve bult ffmpeg as shared libs using the –enable-shared option

  after that the root console appears and nothing is being installed.

  I followed exactly a a line by line on your post, but could not proceed after that error,
  I have fedora 8, Apache, php5, mysql, phpmyadmin installed on the system and it is still fresh, nothing else is installed.

  Would you recommend installing ffmped before mysql or apache or any other option? Or should i choose another linux distro?

  I have been reinstalling the system for 5-7 times already and it just doesn’t work

  Thanks very much for your help!

• . kevin | March 2, 2008 at 3:13 am | Permalink

  hi,
  im trying your tutorial. so far it is the best one i have seen. im looking to offer this as a service to the customers at my site hosty.net. im following your tutorial and i get all the way to installing ffmpeg-php and i can’t seem to get it.

  i get an error saying ffmpeg headers not found and that i should build it with the –enable-shared option.

  my problem is have done this. im fairly certian that it built without error……how do i fix this?

  kevin

• . Nessa | March 2, 2008 at 9:20 am | Permalink

  both of you — look at these:

  http://groups.google.com/group/ffmpeg-php/browse_thread/thread/7902bd06430ad75c/6368262cfd139604#6368262cfd139604
  http://www.nabble.com/FFmpeg-include-files-location-td15459307.html

  For the ffmpeg-php one, did you compile PHP from source or from yum/rpm? If you did it from RPM you may have to use the ffmpeg-php rpm instead of compiling it from source.

  It may be centered more around Fedora. All of our servers use CentOS which in my opinion is better hosting platform.

• . Nessa | March 9, 2008 at 3:12 am | Permalink

  alright guys, I was finally able to see this issue firsthand on one of our customer’s servers. When you run ‘ffmpeg -v’ do you get any errors?

• . Ray | March 9, 2008 at 2:39 pm | Permalink

  Not sure if this is an error:

  [root@localhost ffmpeg-php-0.5.0]# ffmpeg -v
  FFmpeg version SVN-r12397, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: –enable-libmp3lame –disable-mmx –enable-shared
  libavutil version: 49.6.0
  libavcodec version: 51.51.0
  libavformat version: 52.9.0
  libavdevice version: 52.0.0
  built on Mar 10 2008 03:48:19, gcc: 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)
  ffmpeg: missing argument for option ‘-v’
  [root@localhost ffmpeg-php-0.5.0]#

  ^under Cent 5.1. Where to snag an RPM that fixes this?

• . Nessa | March 10, 2008 at 11:03 am | Permalink

  sorry, it’s “ffmpeg -version”

• . Henry | March 10, 2008 at 12:04 pm | Permalink

  Nessa,
  thank you so much for the fix from google groups it helped indeed,
  and I was able to get this thing running,
  I switched to CentOS 5 and fixed headers problem by placing them in the appropriate folder and everything worked out,

  ffmpeg -version did not return any errors, except showing the configuration and version

  thanks again!!!

• . Ray | March 10, 2008 at 6:49 pm | Permalink

  [root@localhost ffmpeg]# ffmpeg -version
  ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.52: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  [root@localhost ffmpeg]#

  What’s strange is that everything appeared to compile properly. I also got ffmpeg-php to ‘make’/'make test’ yesterday (with a few failed tests):

  ffmpeg getAudioBitRate test [tests/getAudioBitRate.phpt]
  ffmpeg getAudioSampleRate test [tests/getAudioSampleRate.phpt]
  ffmpeg getID3Info() test [tests/getID3Info.phpt]
  ffmpeg getVideoBitRate test [tests/getVideoBitRate.phpt]
  ffmpeg persistent movie test [tests/persistentMovie.phpt]

  by symlinking the .h’s generated by ffmpeg under /usr/local/lib/whatever/ to /usr/local/lib, although as your google URL rightfully points out, modifying the CC line would’ve done just fine too. Thank goodness this client wrote me back and said they don’t need ffmpeg-php, only ffmpeg, and are knowledgeable enough to fix anything that might be borken.

  @Nessa: I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that you’d be downright cute if you didn’t have that nasty metal thing in your face.

• . Aaron B. Russell | April 6, 2008 at 6:56 pm | Permalink

  The tip about running ldconfig just helped me a whole bunch. Just wanted to say thanks!
  –
  Aaron

• . Valeri | May 5, 2008 at 7:22 am | Permalink

  sorry, but maybe you can help me with that? I cant install some libraries under debian.. and ffmpeg is not working.

  swswsw:~# ffmpeg -v
  ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.52: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

  Plz, help… I was searching for a solution 2 nights…

  thanks, Val.

• . Nessa | May 5, 2008 at 5:21 pm | Permalink

  edit /etc/ld.so.conf and add the line

  /usr/local/lib

  then save and exit.

  Now run this command to reload the library cache:

  ldconfig -v

• . Jarred Keeper | May 16, 2008 at 5:04 pm | Permalink

  V,

  Thank you for your informative post. While most of this information can be found anywhere, your’s was the only one that pointed me to the google groups. You might consider updating your posting to include verifying that /usr/local/includes/ffmpeg exists after compiling ffmpeg but before compiling ffmpeg-php

  Thanks a million!@

• . dor | July 5, 2008 at 6:33 pm | Permalink

  Thank You!!!

• . Espen Fjelnseth | July 11, 2008 at 10:26 am | Permalink

  Great tutorial! I have started to learn Linux one week ago, but reading your tutorial + Q&A solved all problems I had installing FFMPEG. Thanks!

• . Juan Pablo García Ni | October 27, 2008 at 3:49 pm | Permalink

  Hi there!

  I have the following error, and I do not know how to solve it:

  [root@lin7 ffmpeg-php-0.5.0]# php -i | grep ffmpeg
  PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/lib/php/modules/ffmpeg.so’ – /usr/lib/php/modules/ffmpeg.so: undefined symbol: le_ffmpeg_frame in Unknown on line 0
  PWD => /usr/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0
  _SERVER["PWD"] => /usr/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0
  _ENV["PWD"] => /usr/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0

  Any idea?
  Thanks in advance.
  J. Pablo.

• . Iasmin | November 2, 2008 at 9:26 pm | Permalink

  Hello there,
  Great tutorial I must say! I praise God for it because I was searching for answers all day long and they were here!
  I have one more problem. In the phpinfo() the entries are only ‘PWD’ variables and the extension path is the same… What should I do now?
  Thank you.

• . manoj | December 23, 2008 at 10:06 am | Permalink

  Hello,

  when i typed svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg

  it is showing command not found

  What could be the reason behind this?

  please help me out on this.

  And what ever you mentioned in the complete guide, is it applicable to all versions of red hat?

• . Nessa | December 24, 2008 at 12:07 am | Permalink

  This is because you don’t have subversion installed – one of the earlier steps says:

  yum install subversion

  This procedure has been tested on Redhat 9 and Centos 3/4/5, so I know that it at least works on those systems.

• . Joe | February 1, 2009 at 12:32 pm | Permalink

  Thanks a bunch. This is absolutely the best guide for installing ffmpeg and related software. I followed the instructions and were able to installed every thing on a SuSE 11.0 box.

  However, should I be concerned about the following failed tests when doing a “make test” in ffmpeg-php:

  Number of tests : 29 21
  Tests skipped : 8 ( 27.6%) ——–
  Tests warned : 0 ( 0.0%) ( 0.0%)
  Tests failed : 21 ( 72.4%) (100.0%)
  Tests passed : 0 ( 0.0%) ( 0.0%)
  ———————————————————————
  Time taken : 5 seconds
  =====================================================================

  =====================================================================
  FAILED TEST SUMMARY
  ———————————————————————
  ffmpeg getAudioBitRate test [tests/getAudioBitRate.phpt]
  ffmpeg getAudioChannels test [tests/getAudioChannels.phpt]
  ffmpeg getAudioCodec test [tests/getAudioCodec.phpt]
  ffmpeg getAudioSampleRate test [tests/getAudioSampleRate.phpt]
  ffmpeg getAudioStreamId test [tests/getAudioStreamId.phpt]
  ffmpeg getBitRate test [tests/getBitRate.phpt]
  ffmpeg getDuration test [tests/getDuration.phpt]
  ffmpeg getFileName test [tests/getFileName.phpt]
  ffmpeg getFrameCount test [tests/getFrameCount.phpt]
  ffmpeg getFrameHeight test [tests/getFrameHeight.phpt]
  ffmpeg getFrameNumber test [tests/getFrameNumber.phpt]
  ffmpeg getFrameRate test [tests/getFrameRate.phpt]
  ffmpeg getFrameWidth test [tests/getFrameWidth.phpt]
  ffmpeg getID3Info() test [tests/getID3Info.phpt]
  ffmpeg getPixelAspectRatio test [tests/getPixelAspectRatio.phpt]
  ffmpeg getPixelFormat test [tests/getPixelFormat.phpt]
  ffmpeg getVideoBitRate test [tests/getVideoBitRate.phpt]
  ffmpeg getVideoCodec test [tests/getVideoCodec.phpt]
  ffmpeg getVideoStreamId test [tests/getVideoStreamId.phpt]
  ffmpeg hasAudio test [tests/hasAudio.phpt]
  ffmpeg persistent movie test [tests/persistentMovie.phpt]

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