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Reputation: 1019

How do I run ffmpeg with PHP on a Mac with XAMPP

There is literally nothing on this anywhere, the little there is does not work and is too advanced for me. If you can answer this you would make my life. How do I run ffmpeg commands from php which is running on my localhost? I prefer XAMPP, but MAMP will do just fine, at this stage I will use anything. Do I need to install ffmpeg on the XAMPP server itself, or does it just need to be installed on the mac? I can run the ffmpeg commands fine from terminal, for example,

ffmpeg -i Tmpfile.mp4 -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast video.mp4

works fine, but 

echo shell_exec("ffmpeg -i Tmpfile.mp4 -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast video.mp4");

does nothing when I load the webpage with the index.php that that code is in.

I will buy you a cookie if you can solve my problem :)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1602

Answers (2)

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Reputation: 1019

Ah, I have found the answer. I needed to add this to the beginning of the php script

    exec('unset DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH ;');
putenv('DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH');
putenv('DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/bin');

Upvotes: 0

Gianfranco Reppucci
Gianfranco Reppucci

Reputation: 304

You should be more specific when describing the problem, e.g. including OSX version, ffmpeg version, etc.

I successfully managed to reproduce your case, here it is the procedure:

1. ffmpeg

I installed ffmpeg via brew. ffmpeg version is currently 3.2.4.

2. PHP server

On macOS Sierra (but other previous versions offer this feature as well), you can start a PHP server by just typing

$ php -S 0.0.0.0:8080

in your shell. The web server will listen on port 8080 in that case.

3. The PHP script

I basically used the script you gave in your question, with a little modification:

<?php

echo "loading, please wait...";

echo shell_exec("ffmpeg -i temp.mp4 -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast video.mp4 2>&1");

Did you notice the 2>&1? It is used to redirect the sterr output to the stdoutput as ffmpeg would not print anything on standard output :)

4. Safe mode?

Please be sure to disable PHP safe mode, as the shell_exec method is disabled when safe mode is ON (reference here).

Upvotes: 1

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