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As some of you know, I have been converting my servers from Windows to Linux. Namely, CentOS. I have been finding a LOT of good information on the web on how to configure my system how I like.

Recently, I have been interested in doing a YouTube like site and wanted to have my users view videos using a built in flash player and upload videos in any format they want (well almosy any).

So, I found clipshare and other scripts that do this, but they all require the following to be installed:

I had diffuclty just installing from downloading the downloads on these sites and found a way to do it using the YUM system built into CentOS.

Here’s my process:

First be sure you have ruby, subversion and ncurses-devel installed:

yum install ruby subversion ncurses-devel

Then install ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder:

yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel mplayer mencoder

Now flvtool2:

cd /usr/local/src
svn co http://svn.inlet-media.de/svn/flvtool2/trunk flvtool2
cd flvtool2

ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install


ffmpeg-php install:

cd /usr/local/src

svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ffmpeg-php/trunk/ffmpeg-php ffmpeg-php

cd ffmpeg-php

phpize

./configure && make

make install

Open your PHP.INI file and in the Dynamic extensions section put:

extension=ffmpeg.so

To test if ffmpeg is working properly:

copy the tests directory to /var/www/html/ffmpeg/tests

my way:

mkdir /var/www/html/ffmpeg

cp -r ./tests /var/www/html/ffmpeg
open http:///ffmpeg/tests/test_ffmpeg.php in your browser

At this point you should see a text output describing the various tests it did etc.

All done!

NOTE: I installed the ffmpeg/tests scripts on saturday and it was working fine. I set this up on an additional server and now it does not work right. It shows all the proper data but leaves blank the test media conversions etc.

SO, I found this http://www.clone.gr/fox/test.html it’s for phpFox but it works great at testing if your ffmpeg-php is working properly.