Install FFMPEG

[chanchelkumar]

Basically what I want to do is create a site similar to zamzar.com, where I can convert videos online. I understand that using FFMPEG is the best way to do this.

Thing is, I am having problems installing it. I've been been to numerous tutorials which don't work and they all say to do this

Copy avcodec.dll to system32
Copy avformat.dll to system32
Copy php_ffmpeg.dll to PHP/ext

Write extension=php_f fmpeg.dll to php.ini

I have done that and it still doesn't work.

I am using php5, can you please help me?

[ronverdonk]

Have you also done this

If you've the installed ffmpeg-php extension as a shared library but haven't set it to auto-load in your php.ini file, you'll need to use the PHP dl() function to make ffmpeg-php available to your scripts. Add the following PHP code to the beginning of scripts you want to call ffmpeg-php methods in.

<?php
$extension = "ffmpeg";
$extension_soname = $extension . "." . PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX;
$extension_fullname = PHP_EXTENSION_DIR . "/" . $extension_soname;

// load extension
if(!extension_loaded($extension)) {
    dl($extension_soname) or die("Can't load extension $extension_fullname\n");
}
?>

Ronald