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54 Responses to “ffmpeg-php on dreamhost shared host”

1. david Says:
   December 29th, 2006 at 10:42 am

   Hi I get the error message “Cannot find autoconf.” when trying to use the command “phpize” in the step of installing ffmpeg-php

   Can anyone help?

2. david Says:
   December 29th, 2006 at 7:36 pm

   Hi

   I’m trying to install ffmpeg-php on dreamhost

   I followed your instructions, however, when I came to the step to install ffmpeg-php when I use the phpize command the following error message

   Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable is set correctly and then rerun this script.

   When i try to configure ffmpeg it says it is an invalid file or directory.

   I’m not too sure about the structure of the files are they all in the root of the directory with the exception of php 4?

3. Administrator Says:
   January 4th, 2007 at 12:44 am

   David had a problem with autoconf which was resolved by reinstalling autoconf and then completing the install as directed in the document. It’s working now at uploadartist dot com

4. huseyin Says:
   January 5th, 2007 at 1:31 am

   there is a small mistake with dashes in ./configuration line. It must be like this;
   ffmpeg

   svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
   cd ffmpeg/
   ./configure –-prefix=$HOME –-cross-compile –-enable-shared
   make
   make install

5. Arda Says:
   January 6th, 2007 at 12:34 am

   Hi,

   First Happy New Year !!

   David how could you complie ffmpeg with AMR+LAME?

   Can you write the shell codes?

   Thanks…

6. Administrator Says:
   January 7th, 2007 at 12:49 am

   Hi Arda,
   The trick is to install LAME first and then install ffmpeg with LAME support.
   And the name is Imtiaz, David is one of the people whom I’ve set this up for

7. Dann Says:
   January 24th, 2007 at 10:28 pm

   Hi have compiled everything above the ffmpeg, but i dont see to compile ffempeg itself. I’m a newbie to this so i really tried to figure out things but no luck. I get an sort of error.

   Here it is:
   ————–
   Unable to create and execute files in /tmp. Set the TMPDIR environment
   variable to another directory and make sure that /tmp is not mounted
   noexec.
   Sanity test failed.
   If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
   version from SVN. If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
   ffmpeg-devel@mplayerhq.hu mailing list or IRC #ffmpeg on irc.freenode.net.
   Include the log file “config.err” produced by configure as this will help
   solving the problem.
   ———————–

   What does it mean? What do i do here?

   I would absolutely appriciate it if anyone could help me out here please.

   Thank you,

   Dann

8. Administrator Says:
   January 26th, 2007 at 1:52 pm

   Hi dann,
   You missed the

   export TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp

   run that and then try again it should work if not then let me know I’ll check on your server.

   -Imtiaz

9. Beni Says:
   January 28th, 2007 at 11:25 pm

   Hello, can anyone please tell me the folder structure; How and where to put the files? do they go into (src) folder or what? I would much appriciate it.

   thank you.

10. Administrator Says:
    January 30th, 2007 at 2:18 am

    Hi Beni,
    Please go through this document. The folder structure is clearly explained at the top, the src folder will hold all the source to build the components. If you think something is confusing please let me know and I’ll go ahead and change it.

    -Imtiaz

11. Mohamed Says:
    January 30th, 2007 at 5:49 am

    I have compiled the ffmpeg (old version) and compiled the lame and added the amr codecs to the ffmpeg and enabled mp3lame while compiling

    but when I try to compile the mplayer
    I see the following error in the configuration log …
    Although the so file is in the lib folder

    what should I do?
    ============ Checking for libmp3lame (for mencoder) ============

    #include
    int main(void) { lame_version_t lv; (void) lame_init(); get_lame_version_numerical(&lv); printf(”%d%d\n”,lv.major,lv.minor); return 0; }

    cc -O4 -march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -I/home//include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -L/home//lib -o /home//tmp/mplayer-conf-19371-12812.o /home//tmp/mplayer-conf-19464-12812.c -lmp3lame -lm

    ldd /home//tmp/mplayer-conf-19371-12812.o
    libmp3lame.so.0 => not found
    libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0×40021000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0×40043000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0×40000000)

    /home//tmp/mplayer-conf-19371-12812.o: error while loading shared libraries: libmp3lame.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    Result is: no
    ##########################################

12. Beni Says:
    January 30th, 2007 at 9:47 am

    I installed eveything but when i try to install ffmpeg-php and then run phpize, it say autoconf not found. As you mentioned above to reinstall autoconf, i did three times but still the same problem. please please can someone help me just a bit. as im really broke these days and i cannot pay anyone to install it for me. so any help i would be appriciate it.
    ——————————————————————-

    And Imtiaz thanks for your help, i tried the way you told me but again im stuch with the autoconf anot found.

    thank you in advance

13. Administrator Says:
    February 3rd, 2007 at 3:25 am

    Hi Beni,
    do an export PHP_AUTOCONF=autoconf and it should work

14. Nemanja Says:
    February 3rd, 2007 at 10:47 pm

    Hi,

    I have tryed to compile and install the ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php and I have much truble doing it, so I did a search in google and find Your site which explain this installation, but need more info on it.

    Would like to know is this install info is for shared hosting or for dedicted hosting, because I’m in shared hosting on dreamhost and don’t have permissions to write on /home dir…

    I encounter error installing autoconf…
    I seems to have compiled it, but when I try to install it I get this error

    usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/bin/autom4te’: Permission denied
    /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/bin/autoconf’: Permission denied
    /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/bin/autoheader’: Permission denied
    /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/bin/autoreconf’: Permission denied
    /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/bin/ifnames’: Permission denied
    /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/bin/autoscan’: Permission denied
    /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/bin/autoupdate’: Permission denied
    make[2]: *** [install-binSCRIPTS] Error 1
    make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
    make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

    It seems like I haven’t permissiom to make dir or any thing else on home dir, so the question is how I gona install something in here???

    This is what I would like to know:
    What this meens “–prefix=$HOME” in ./configure “–prefix=$HOME” don’t understand is this relative or apsolute path, what I have to enter here ????
    My apsolute path is /home/.matzoh/dxxx/auto-purchasing-tips.com/video/

    I saw that many others have the same problems and it would be nice if you explain a litle bit more detailed about that home prefix and what goes where because something is not working like in David case You said that he fix it but You didn’t explain what exactly He fixed and I think this would be of great help to every one..

    If anyone have such problem and he/she solved it, please post the explained problem solving right here thanks,

    Nemanja

15. Administrator Says:
    February 4th, 2007 at 10:54 am

    Just so I don’t forget:

    On bluehost:
    1…. mencoder should be installed last
    2…. u need ffmpeg
    3…. CPATH
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    export CPATH=$HOME/include/:$HOME/include/lame/
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/lib
    export LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH

    4…. Sleep
    5…. for flvtool2 u need ot first install ruby
    wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.5-p12.tar.gz
    tar -zxf ruby-1.8.5-p12.tar.gz
    cd ruby-1.8.5-p12
    ./configure –prefix=$HOME
    make
    make install
    cd ../flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6
    $HOME/bin/ruby setup.rb config –prefix=$HOME
    $HOME/ruby setup.rb setup
    $HOME/ruby setup.rb install

    It just might save the day someday…

16. Administrator Says:
    February 4th, 2007 at 11:08 am

    Hi Nemanja,
    The $HOME in –prefix=$HOME, is an environment variable which translates into /home/dxxx/ on your dreamhost server (the .matzoh will be removed). I am constantly updating this document as it gets me a lot of hits and a number of small installation jobs so please go ahead and ask questions I’ll try and make the doc as helpful as possible.

    Also if you would like to have me set up your server please contact me through the contact form and use your real email id when doing so.

    Warm Regards
    Imtiaz

17. Mohamed Says:
    February 4th, 2007 at 11:53 pm

    I see nobody answered me…

    I have problem installing mp3lame on dreamhost
    The shared object is not seen during configuration of mencoder

    see the post above

    Waiting for your reply ASAP

18. Nemanja Says:
    February 5th, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Hi,

    I find my problem, I was using script phpshell and wasn’t been able to do anything…
    But now I used putty and it all went well in installation process(I think so).

    But now I have new problem I get this error message when I setup my youtube clone site and try to upload some movie… this is the error I get, don’t quite understand what it meens:

    Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: ffmpeg_movie in /home/.matzoh/xxxx/auto-purchasing-tips.com/video/upload.php

    Can anyone help or advice on this matter??

    Nemanja

19. Rob Taylor Says:
    February 22nd, 2007 at 7:04 am

    Hire Imtiaz for all your problems… he did a great(and cheap) job of setting this up for me without a glitch. I use php5, so I didnt want the php ffmpeg package, and he still worked it out.

    Thanks man!

20. Leandro Says:
    February 26th, 2007 at 5:53 am

    Hello, I need help. All steps ok, but when I will compile ffmpeg-php I get this error at make install:

    make: *** [ffmpeg-php.lo] Error 1

    warning: `ImgReSampleContext’ is deprecated
    warning: `ImgReSampleContext’ is deprecated
    `AVFrac’ is deprecated (
    php.h: No such file or directory
    php_ini.h: No such file or directory
    php_globals.h: No such file or directory
    ext/standard/info.h: No such file or directory
    In file included from /home/jack/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg-php.c:33
    error: syntax error before “ffmpeg_module_entry”
    error: conflicting types for ‘av_register_all’
    error: conflicting types for ‘register_ffmpeg_movie_class’
    and others…

21. Imtiaz Says:
    February 27th, 2007 at 4:16 am

    Hi Leandro,
    Please have a look at: http://www.netbrix.net/archives/39

    I do this for a living so if you’re interested maybe you could buy me a lunch or gas for the car

    cheers
    Imtiaz

22. Keith Says:
    March 6th, 2007 at 6:02 pm

    HI, i am having the same problem that Beni had when i phpize ffmpeg-php. I tried “export PHP_AUTOCONF=autoconf” but that didn’t seem to do anything. Am i not doing it right? Which directory do i need to be in when i do it? What exactly does it do, because i am getting the same results.

    Thanks, this is a great guide!

23. MCR Says:
    March 15th, 2007 at 2:15 pm

    when i try to download the file with WGET it conencts to server, but i get a 404???

24. MCR Says:
    March 15th, 2007 at 2:36 pm

    The 404 error only occurs with MENCODER… and again the PHPize dosnt work….. also tried the export…. AUTOconf installed fine… over and over again!!!

25. Daniel Cáceres Says:
    March 17th, 2007 at 2:31 pm

    Hi! I tried with: export AUTO_CONF=autoconf before phpize, but didn’t work…

    Say: Cannot find autoconf. Please check your….

26. Daniel Cáceres Says:
    March 17th, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    This happen when I try ti install ffmpeg-php

    I can’t then ./configure the ffmpeg-php

27. Imtiaz Says:
    March 25th, 2007 at 8:12 am

    Hi Daniel,
    Try looking at the autoconf setup. If you do not see a autoconf binary in $HOME/bin (assuming shared host) then you probably need to install autoconf and make sure it works before proceeding.

    also check the environment variables specifically PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH

    If all else fails browse over to http://www.netbrix.net/archives/39

    Warm Regards
    Imtiaz

28. Beegee Says:
    May 19th, 2007 at 5:53 pm

    under Setup users environment

    cp $HOME/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ffmpeg.so ./

    the extensions dir inside $HOME/lib/php/ is not cretade during installation!! wht did I missed??

29. Arian Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 5:44 pm

    hey hi guys,

    first of thanks to you guys! good informations, but I am having a problem installing ffmpeg-php, however I have installed everything else succesesfuly! but the only problem that cost me lost of heachache is that when i try to run the phpize command, it says ” -bash: phpize: command not found” I serached on google, nothing usefull found so far. I have a VPS server, which is alrady php1, php4, php5 is installed by the defult, i try to cantact my hosting comapny, they denied to assist me, due the VPS server is a unmanaged, but anyway, if you guys hahve any sulotion, or any other alternative, or knowing any other command insted of phpize, help me. I will be obliged.
    thanks

30. tharun Says:
    June 22nd, 2007 at 6:52 am

    Hello Imtiaz,
    thanks for the information I was able to install every thing but I switched php4.4 with php5.2 and got every thing installed. I installed mplayer last as I missed it. Will it be a problem.

    My question is on dreamhost you have separate folders per each domain. So where should I create cgi-bin directory and where should I place the .htaccess file.
    Can I put the environment variables somewhere so that I need not edit all the php files where ffmpeg is called?

31. Mikey Says:
    June 25th, 2007 at 2:46 am

    I followed this tutrial and everything went well.
    Towards the end I needed to hire Imtiaz to get everything to work with my script.

    Within 24 hours of contacting Imtiaz I had my script up and running with no further issues.
    He quoted me a fair price for the work that I needed and I would highly recomend him and his services to anyone wishing to set up FFMPEG etc.

    I told Imtiaz exactly how I wanted things to run and that’s exactly what I got.
    No messing, No Misunderstandings, No confusion.

    Take my advice, stop strugling and get a professional on the case.
    I am more than happy with the services and the speed of the services and would gladly recomend Imtiaz to anyone wishing to install all these things.
    http://www.netbrix.net/archives/39

    Without a doubt, If I ever need anything in this are of expertise doing again, I know who I’m gonna call!

    Stop pulling your hair out, spend a few bucks and get it done right!

    Thanks again Imtiaz!
    Great work!!!!

    Mike (Completely 101% Happy Customer)

32. Harijay Says:
    June 28th, 2007 at 2:44 am

    Thanks to your excellent instructions I have a fully working version of ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php on my Bluehost shared hosting account.

    I can now transcode well and make thumnails using ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php

    Just one thing..the enable falg on ffmpeg compilation is
    –enable-libmp3lame

    Thanks a tonne ..and i would recommend Bluehost to get all this compiled.

    HJ

33. Greg Poole Says:
    July 4th, 2007 at 11:53 am

    Arian: I had the same problem as you. Check out this message:
    http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/msg07707.html

    The poster suggests installing the php-devel package which should contain the phpize utility.

34. miguel michelson Says:
    July 30th, 2007 at 4:08 pm

    Hi Imtiaz, I have a problem when I close my ssh conection , because before that I can encode and use the ffmpeg program very well. but when I close my ssh conection after I install and play with ffmpeg , and I try to use it again the following error outputs:

    error while loading shared libraries: libavformat.so.51: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    but the libavformat.so.51 already exists in the lib folder.

    When I run the ffmpeg program succesfully a litle notice outputs :
    Compiler did not align stack variables. Libavcodec has been miscompiled
    and may be very slow or crash. This is not a bug in libavcodec,
    but in the compiler. Do not report crashes to FFmpeg developers.
    frame= 456 fps=120 q=31.0 Lsize= 406kB time=30.4 bitrate= 109.3kbits/s

    but it works, the real missworking happens when I close the ssh conection

    I will apriciatte your help

    sorry form my bad english

    Regards!

35. miguel michelson Says:
    July 30th, 2007 at 4:39 pm

    Hi , it’s me again, I think I resolve the problem ,’of provisional form’, when I do a new ssh conection to my server i have to declare this variable:

    export TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    export CPATH=$HOME/include:/usr/local/include:$CPATH
    export LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH

    the quiestion here , is , how can I to leave these declared variables of permanent form

36. Imtiaz Says:
    August 10th, 2007 at 7:49 am

    hi Miguel,
    Put those in you profile (usually ~/.bash_profile but will differ from shell to shell)

37. pt Says:
    October 1st, 2007 at 12:24 pm

    Thanks for this. I am creating a new site with a section for uploading videos. I am using Drupal and its FlashVideo Module.

    I just installed lame+ffmpeg and it works! My project site is hosted over at Site5 with a shared hosting account.

38. tr1g3r Says:
    November 25th, 2007 at 1:23 pm

    Hi,

    I’m on the part on installing ffmpeg after entering this line

    ./configure “–prefix=$HOME” “–cross-compile” “–enable-shared” “–enable-mp3lame” “–extra-cflags=-I$HOME/include” “–extra-ldflags=-L$HOME/lib”

    I’m getting an error:
    Unknown option “-prefix=

    please help

39. Imtiaz Says:
    November 28th, 2007 at 3:52 am

    I think it should be --prefix=$HOME --cross-compile --enable-shared --enable-mp3lame --extra-cflags=-I$HOME/include -–extra-ldflags=-L$HOME/lib

40. sam Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 5:22 pm

    after installed php version 4.4.4 I came this error

    [pandora]$ php -r ‘phpinfo();’ | grep ffmpeg
    PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library ‘.//home/vietpro/lib/ffmpeg.so’ - .//home/vietpro/lib/ffmpeg.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
    Error in argument 1, char 2: option not found r

    thanks

41. Frank Says:
    February 18th, 2008 at 2:53 am

    I followed instruction and it is terrific.

    I used this to configure,

    ./configure “–prefix=$HOME” “–cross-compile” “–enable-shared” “–enable-libamr-nb” “–enable-libamr-wb” “–enable-libmp3lame” “–enable-libvorbis” “–enable-libxvid” “–extra-cflags=-I$HOME/include” “–extra-ldflags=-L$HOME/lib” “–enable-gpl” “–enable-nonfree”

    and make / make install runs smoothly.

    But when I use this command
    ffmpeg -i source target.flv to convert movie, I met this error:

    Compiler did not align stack variables. Libavcodec has been miscompiled
    and may be very slow or crash. This is not a bug in libavcodec,
    but in the compiler. You may try recompiling using gcc >= 4.2.
    Do not report crashes to FFmpeg developers.
    Input #0, mpeg, from ‘MOV01615.MPG’:
    Duration: 00:01:07.2, start: 0.110000, bitrate: 2913 kb/s
    Stream #0.0[0×1c0]: Audio: mp2, 32000 Hz, mono, 64 kb/s
    Stream #0.1[0×1e0]: Video: mpeg1video, yuv420p, 640×480 [PAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 104857 kb/s, 25.00 tb(r)
    Output #0, flv, to ‘demo3.flv’:
    Stream #0.0: Video: flv, yuv420p, 640×480 [PAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 25.00 tb(c)
    Stream #0.1: Audio: libmp3lame, 32000 Hz, mono, 64 kb/s
    Stream mapping:
    Stream #0.1 -> #0.0
    Stream #0.0 -> #0.1
    [libmp3lame @ 0×2aadd5ebf800]flv does not support that sample rate, choose from (44100, 22050, 11025).
    Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?)

    And output file has no sound. Any idea? What GCC 4.2 means to me? I installed on the bluehost account.

    Thanks.

42. Imtiaz Says:
    February 18th, 2008 at 6:57 am

    Hi Frank,
    Try the following instead:

    ffmpeg -i source -ar 22050 target.flv

43. nick Says:
    March 4th, 2008 at 10:02 am

    hey - you are a genius! this is brilliant, i have it working on bluehost, kind of…

    i want to script the conversion of .amr to .mp3s using shell scripts.

    have found that i do need to export the environment variables to avoid error executing ffmpeg.

    however when i script this it doesn’t seem to have any effect. If you could help i’d really appreciate it - i have a .sh file which has been chmod 755ed and in it is:

    #!/bin/bash

    export TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    export CPATH=$HOME/include:/usr/local/include:$CPATH
    export LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH

    as i say, when i execute is i get no output to screen and ffmpeg still doesn’t work…

    thanks again…

    nick

44. Imtiaz Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    Hi Nick,
    What is the rest of the shell script. More important what is the actual command that you are using to run the conversion.

45. Justin Says:
    March 9th, 2008 at 9:00 am

    Just a few days ago i had ffmpeg-php working. then i got the bright
    idea to try to add a codec to ffmpeg. so i re-installed ffmpeg and
    then ffmpeg-php. i then noticed this error which i did NOT get before.

    Fatal error: Call to a member function togdimage() on a non-object

    $movie = new ffmpeg_movie(”testmovie.wmv”);
    $cap = $movie->getFrame(1);
    $img = $cap->togdimage();

    that is my php code. (i have also tried MANY different movie types)
    now i have figured out that all functions called from $cap return that
    error, $cap returns false, but am not sure why. i have not changed
    this code at all, yet it worked before this.

    I have the latest ffmpeg, the latest ffmpeg-php, the latest php, and
    the latest gd library installed.
    also, in an outputted phpinfo() page, it says that ffmpeg-php is
    installed correctly. i also printed out:

    get_class_methods(”ffmpeg_frame”)
    and
    get_class_methods(”ffmpeg_movie”)

    and that returns all the functions, they are all there, including
    togdimage.

    when configuring php, i have read mixed ideas. some say to use –with-
    gd, and some say –with-gd=shared. i have tried both, with no success
    with either.

    here is my configuration command for “ffmpeg” TMPDIR=”/tmp2″ ./configure –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libvorbis –disable-mmx –enable-shared

    a) if i don’t have the TMPDIR=”/tmp2″ there, it will say “Unable to
    create and execute files in /tmp. Set the TMPDIR environment
    variable to another directory and make sure that /tmp is not mounted
    noexec. Sanity test failed.”. but the /tmp2 dir does exist and is
    chmodded 7777.
    b) i have installed libOGG many times but when i have –enable-libogg
    as an option it says “Unknown option..” so i just take it out.

    and for ffmpeg-php i dont use any configuration parameters. once
    ffmpeg-php is installed, i go to “/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/” and copy ffmpeg.so to “/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/” (one directory up), and in my php.ini file i have:

    extension_dir = “/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/”
    extension=ffmpeg.so

    in my phpinfo(), it DOES recognize ffmpeg-php. but the functions out
    of the class wont work.

    Can anyone further help me debug this problem?

46. Rasengan Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 1:31 am

    I’m having problems with the same problems with the phpize/autoconf step for FFMPEG-PHP.

    I just noticed that when I run phpize, I get this:

    [xxxxxx]$ phpize
    Configuring for:
    PHP Api Version: 20020918
    Zend Module Api No: 20020429
    Zend Extension Api No: 20050606
    Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF
    environment variable is set correctly and then rerun this script.

    But, in from phpinfo(), I get this:
    PHP API 20041225
    PHP Extension 20060613
    Zend Extension 220060519

    So, obviously, phpize is looking at the wrong version of php (I compiled php5 with FastCGI support using this: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Advanced_PHP_configuration

    So, can anyone tell me how I can make it pick up my new php, and use it to compile ffmpeg-php? It’s the only thing I still need to get a video mod of mine working

47. Imtiaz Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    Hi Rasengan,
    You will need to tell the shell to look at the installed PHP in your home dir.
    This you can do by setting the PATH system variable.
    So if /home//bin is where you have all the binaries(php, phpize, php_config etc) then run the following:

    export PATH=/home/user/bin:$PATH

    To check run:
    which phpize

    This should return /home/user/bin/phpize

    then do the phpize etc.

    Also as listed here you will need the auto conf setup to make it all work.

    Cheers

48. jigs Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 3:39 am

    Hi I try to install ffmpeg when i use this command “./configure –prefix=$HOME –cross-compile –enable-shared” I am getting this message Unknown option “–cross-compile”., can you tell me why i got this error? i also try to install ffmpeg-php
    after install i didnt find ffmpeg.so file i check all folder but i didnt find it anywhere. how ca i fix this?

49. Imtiaz Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 4:32 am

    Hi jigs,
    The reason that happened is because the version of ffmpeg you are using is different from what I used. Please replace –cross-compile with –enable-cross-compile to make it work

    Also if you run into similar problems run a ./configure –help to see a list of all options available.

    ffmpeg.so wont happen because the ffmpeg failed to compile to begin with and so the extension cant be built.

50. cooolest Says:
    April 26th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    Hello
    BIG THANKS to all of you for your information.
    I have just ONE question.

    When I hit my “test_ffmpeg.php” in my browser and I get THIS ERROR . . .

    Can’t load extension /usr/local/php5/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/ffmpeg.so

    But the .so EXISTS at /home/cooolest/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/ffmpeg.so location!

    What’s up with that???????
    Anyone can help????

51. Imtiaz Says:
    April 28th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    Hi coolest,
    you need to edit your php.ini and change the path to the extension_dir to /home/cooolest/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/

    If you need help installing let me know.

52. iSaaC Says:
    October 5th, 2008 at 12:01 am

    Hi i have this problem:

    ~/src/lame-3.97]$ ./configure “–prefix=$HOME” “–enable-shared”
    checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
    checking host system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
    checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
    checking whether build environment is sane… yes
    checking for gawk… gawk
    checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
    checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles… no
    checking for style of include used by make… GNU
    checking for gcc… gcc
    checking for C compiler default output file name… configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
    See `config.log’ for more details.
    ———————–
    gcc
    -jailshell: /usr/bin/gcc: Permission denied

    what i have to do? thx

53. Benjamin Says:
    October 12th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    I think ive given setting this up a good enough. I mainly wanted to do it myself to learn. I would like you to set the rest of my failed attempt up but would really wanna know what you had to do to fix it. It’s more for my personal knowledge than for getting the site up. lemme know if you can quote me.

54. Imtiaz Says:
    October 12th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    Isaac,
    It looks like you’re missing the c++ compiler. Please have theh ost install the package gcc-cpp or gcc-c++

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