ffmpeg, php multimedia library

by Mr Me on June 11, 2007 in php

Different multimedia format convertion for php library is a basic requirement. Sometimes we need thumbnail for video, or a watermark addition on each frame (or alternate) frame of a particular video, what will you do. There is a solution , is , ffmpeg.

Its php api documentation is now available: http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/apidoc.php

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3 Responses to “ffmpeg, php multimedia library”

Ganesh Pasarkar August 21, 2007 at 12:46 pm #

dear sajit sir,

First of all thnx for such wonderful site. Your site provides lot of usefyl resources in php.
hope you will keep it p.

i had one query that i want to do video streaming using ffmpeg in php.
Please can you tell me how to do this?

Waiting for reply

Regards
Ganesh

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Raja T S Sekhar May 2, 2009 at 10:59 am #

The api link is not working now. Instead try this: http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/doc/api/

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Sandhirasegaran.M April 28, 2011 at 3:16 pm #

Hi,

Am also looking for the same thing.

I am developing video library, so i want to convert video of any format to .flv and capture thumb image for display.

Please help me for installation in windows XP and linux ubutnu 10.10 ( installed lampp not used source php and apache ).

Also tell me how to test whether ffmpeg is installed in windows and linux.

Please give sample code for video conversion and thumb image creation.

Thanks

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