Comments on: Convert Video Formats Using FFMPEG

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:36:59 +0000

Thunder (or anyone), I’ve been trying to get FFmpeg working on WAMP for days. Can you please help me?

I have found little info about installing and testing FFmpeg and flvtool2 on WAMP. I could really use someone’s help.

I already hFFmpegmpeg, flvtool2 and FFmpegmpeg installed but I’m not sure if I have installed the correct versions of each so they all work together.

Every test script I try gives some sort of error or I get a 0kb flv file. Maybe because the scripts are for NIX. I just don’t know.

If someone is willing to take the time, I surappreciaterechiate it :)

Shoot me an email:

jeffshead at hotmail.c0m

By: Thunder

Thunder — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 05:43:33 +0000

Ffmpeg is great for converting files but complex codec and parameters setting is often required when you are using it on linux. As far windows platform is concerned, Ffmpeg is awesome.

By: Boyd

Boyd — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:16:43 +0000

BTW I just can’t seem to be able to convert videos I get 0Kb files, but I am able to execute the same command from the command line

Any help would be appreciated, you can email me

By: Boyd

Boyd — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:15:10 +0000

Try this to create thumbnails, I have it working. You must have the GD library installed in order for this to work!

//Only used to create an image with the same name as the video with .jpg ext
$thumb=substr(filename,0,(strlen(filename)-strlen(filetype)));
$command=”ffmpeg -i “.escapeshellarg(html_entity_decode(“directory/to/video/filename”)).” -an -ss “.escapeshellarg(“00:00:08″).” -an -r 1 -vframes 1 -y -f mjpeg “.escapeshellarg(html_entity_decode(“directory/to/jpg/”.$thumb.”jpg”));

//change this to your library path
shell_exec(“export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/”);
shell_exec(“nohup nice -n 1 $command > /dev/null & echo $!”);

sleep(5);
chmod(“”.FILES_DIR.$file_id.”-”.$thumb.”jpg”,0700);

This will create an image of the 8th second of the video

By: Ronald Nicholls

Ronald Nicholls — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:00:52 +0000

@David Walsh: I’m trying to use ffmpeg on my website to dynamically ge t thumbnails created of flv fils, but it doesn’t seem to work out that well. i have checked the php.info and made sure its installed correctly, but i was wondering how to do this with php, every method i have found isntworking.

By: abdulla

abdulla — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:19:59 +0000

I have converted video to FLV format. But the problem is File size is
0kb.

So, Am not getting any perfect solution on this. IF any one knows Pls help me.

By: sundaymicky

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By: Ronny's Concious

Ronny's Concious — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:52:40 +0000

@Ronny: You need to install MacPorts: http://www.macports.org/

By: Ronny

Ronny — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:49:03 +0000

I get this on my Mac: sudo: port: command not found

Why?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:05:11 +0000

@Vince:
I think http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=561087 has your answer:

“To encode a .mov you’ll need to use the target option.”

ffmpeg -i input.avi -target X output.mov
Where X stands for a target type as defined in the FFmpeg docs