Installing php-ffmpeg on CentOS 5.x

Spechal — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:24:58 +0000

This can be a pain due to a bug in the ffpmeg_frame.c file … here are the commands to get up and going

yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg-php/files/ffmpeg-php/0.6.0/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2/download
tar jxvf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2
sed -i 's/PIX_FMT_RGBA32/PIX_FMT_RGBA/g' ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/ffmpeg_frame.c
cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0 && phpize
./configure && make && make install
echo 'extension=ffmpeg.so' > /etc/php.d/ffmpeg.ini && /etc/init.d/httpd restart
php -v && php -m | grep ffmpeg

In this process you:
use yum to install ffmpeg and the ffmpeg development files
download php-ffmepg from sourceforge and extract it
apply the bug fix to the ffmpeg_frace.c file
change directories to the php-ffmpeg directory and phpize the module
configure, make and install the shared object (extension)
add the extension to the loaded php extensions
restart apache and verify no errors are shown on php startup and that ffmepg is loaded

If all is well, you should see your version of PHP with the copyrights on 3 lines and the last line showing ffmpeg

phpize not found

Spechal — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:12:57 +0000

This error is typically generated when you don’t have the PHP development libraries installed.

Installing the libraries via repository is the easiest and quickest fix.

For Fedora/Red Hat:
yum install php5-dev

For Ubuntu/Debian:
apt-get install php5-dev

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Installing php-ffmpeg on CentOS 5.x

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