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Asked: 2026-05-23T04:47:12+00:00

I am trying to get FFMPEG to work in php. I just installed ffmpeg

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I am trying to get FFMPEG to work in php. I just installed ffmpeg and x264 and ran the following command in my terminal:

$command = 'ffmpeg -i /home/gman/Desktop/cave.wmv -acodec libfaac -aq 100 -vcodec libx264 -preset slow -crf 22 -threads 0 /home/gman/Desktop/newvideo.flv

It worked perfectly and created a new flv video from the inital video, just like I wanted.

Now when I try the same thing in php, nothing happens… 

$safe_path = escapeshellarg("/home/gman/Desktop/newvideo.flv");
$command = 'ffmpeg -i /home/gman/Desktop/cave.wmv -acodec libfaac -aq 100 -vcodec libx264 -preset slow -crf 22 -threads 0 ' . $safe_path;
exec($command);

Anyone have any ideas? Can I somehow see what exec is doing and see some sort of output? Would appreciate it.

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  1. Editorial Team

    http://blog.codyjung.com/2011/05/29/problems-with-lampp-and-exec/

    My solution was to simply copy the ones from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu and overwrite the LAMPP ones. Could that cause problems later? Maybe, but I guess we’ll deal with that when it shows up.

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