According to the official ffmpeg-php website: ffmpeg-php is an extension for PHP that adds an easy to use, object-oriented API for accessing and retrieving information from video and audio files. It has methods for returning frames from movie files as images that can be manipulated using PHP’s image functions
Inodder to use this extension;you must first install ffmpeg http://gnusys.net/install-ffmpeg-with-amr-nb-and-amr-wb-support/
and after that
1.Download ffmpeg-php from http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/
2.Untar the source package and run the following commands in the source directory
phpize
./configure && make
make install
You must also ensure that the extension is loaded correctly in the php configuration file
php –ini
will show the location of the php.ini file .You must ensure that the following line is present in your php.ini
extension=ffmpeg.so
Thats it.If you are using php as a DSO of apache ;then you may have to restart apache for the change to take effect
This post was written by Anoop Alias on July 12, 2008
