Effortless Video Processing with PHP Passthru and FFmpeg

ToonMariner ... it is a permissions thing - can you run ANY exec command on the server? if you can't then contact your server dude and ask them ... Some simple examples follow. Convert an input media file to a different format, by re-encoding media streams: ffmpeg -i input.avi output.mp4. ... ffmpeg-php incompatible with the latest ffmpeg. ffmpeg developers suggest to rather use ffmpeg directly with php exec function in cli or ... I have a php application that I want to trigger that script on an API endpoint hit - since the thing takes 5 minutes and would hang up my app. If your PHP environment can execute passthru() and you want some basic functions to execute some ffmpeg console commands, this module will help. In order to generate video thumbnails & use the Transcode videos option, I need to enter a value in for the FFMPEG & PHP Binary Paths. The passthru() function is similar to the exec() function in that it executes a command. This function should be used in place of exec() or system() ... ffmpeg to a shared location. I happened to install it with 'root' user and followed this installation guide: CompilationGuide/Centos – FFmpeg 2. Is PHP exec/shell_exec function enabled on your server and will it be able to run the ffmpeg? Note: It is on. Plesk Obsidian ... which when I call with exec() seems to do nothing. I get a blank array for the &$output, and 1 in &$return_var, but no movies come out the other ...