How to install FFMPEG and FFMPEG-PHP install on CentOS 5.X

To install FFMPEG please follow the below steps.

Create a new file called /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo

nano /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo

Add the following text to the file.

Run the following in the command line.

Now you are ready to install FFMPEG

First run

then

Now FFMPEG should have been installed.

Now let's prepare to installing FFMPEG-PHP

Download the latest FFMPEG-PHP package:

Extract the package then build and install it. Use following commands to do that.

The make install command will show PHP extensions path where ffmpeg PHP extension is installed.

Now edit php.ini file. Nano editor can be used to do this.

Make sure that value of extension_dir is set to PHP extension directory as given by above make install command.

Add following line just below extension_dir and this will enable ffmpeg PHP extension.

Restart Apache to make this change in effect. apachectl restart 

or /sbin/service httpd restart

Verify the status of ffmpeg extension on a PHP info web page or from command line as given below.

root@server [~]# php -i | grep ffmpeg
ffmpeg
ffmpeg-php version => 0.6.0-svn
ffmpeg-php built on => Jun 2 2012 20:48:04
ffmpeg-php gd support => enabled
ffmpeg libavcodec version => Lavc52.123.0
ffmpeg libavformat version => Lavf52.111.0
ffmpeg swscaler version => SwS0.14.1
ffmpeg.allow_persistent => 0 => 0
ffmpeg.show_warnings => 0 => 0
OLDPWD => /root/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0
_SERVER["OLDPWD"] => /root/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0
_ENV["OLDPWD"] => /root/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0

Check the installation Paths Following are the file system paths of tools that have been installed. ffmpeg:/usr/bin/ffmpeg

Now open yum.conf nano /etc/yum.conf

and add ffmpeg* in exclude line.

Some Errors here /root/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-php-0.7.0/ffmpeg_movie.c: In function 'zim_ffmpeg_movie___construct':
/root/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-php-0.7.0/ffmpeg_movie.c:318: error: 'list_entry' undeclared (first use in this function)
/root/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-php-0.7.0/ffmpeg_movie.c:318: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/root/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-php-0.7.0/ffmpeg_movie.c:318: error: for each function it appears in.)
/root/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-php-0.7.0/ffmpeg_movie.c:318: error: 'le' undeclared (first use in this function)
/root/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-php-0.7.0/ffmpeg_movie.c:353: error: expected ';' before 'new_le'
/root/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-php-0.7.0/ffmpeg_movie.c:363: error: 'new_le' undeclared (first use in this function)


Solution: Changes in ffmpeg_movie.c:
row 311: list_entry *le; TO zend_rsrc_list_entry *le;
row 346: list_entry new_le; TO zend_rsrc_list_entry new_le;
row 360: hashkey_length+1, (void *)&new_le, sizeof(list_entry), TO
hashkey_length+1, (void *)&new_le,sizeof(zend_rsrc_list_entry)