How to install FFmpeg on Linux VPS Hosting?
FFmpeg is an important application software which is used to run a video website with streaming with conversion of video files into various video formats. By following the below steps you can install FFmpeg software easily on Linux VPS Hosting without compiling the files.
yum install ffmpeg
If you will get command not found, then you will have to add few lines in the yum repository for dag installation.
Create a file named dag.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d with the following contents on it
[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
then
yum update
yum install ffmpeg
If everything works fine, then the installation should proceed smoothly and if not then you will get something like warning GPG public key missing .
To fix rpmforge GPG key warning:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Most commonly you have GLIB 2.3 installed instead of GLIB 2.4 version. To check the current GLIB version installed on your server. just use
yum list glib*
and it will list all the packages whether installed or not. Try to see whether Glibc 2.4 installed, if not you will need to upgrade your Centos to latest version of 5.
How to check the ffmpeg working?
Finally, check the ffmpeg whether it is working or not.
> ffmpeg
> ffmpeg -formats
> ffmpeg –help
// This lists path of mpeg, its modules and other path information
> ffmpeg -i Input.file Output.file
To check what audi/video formats are supported
ffmpeg -formats > ffmpeg-format.txt
Open the ffmpeg-formats.txt to see the ooutput
D means decode
E means encode
V means video
A means audio
T = Truncated
How to install FFMPEG-PHP Extension?
FFmpeg-php is a very good extension and wrapper for PHP which can pull useful information about video through API interface on a Linux VPS Hosting. Inorder to install it you will have to download the source file and then compile and install extension on your server. You can download the source tarball from : http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/
wget /path/to/this/file/ffmpeg-php-0.5.2.1.tbz2
tar -xjf ffmpeg-0.5.2.1.tbz2
phpize
./configure
make
make install
Common types of Errors are as follows:-
1)If you get command not found error for phpize, then you will need to do yum install php-devel
2)If you get an error like shared libraries not found problem and the program stops in the middle, then you must specify the ffmpeg installed path explicitly to the ./configure.
3)“configure: error: ffmpeg shared libraries not found. Make sure ffmpeg is compiled as shared libraries using the –enable-shared option”
How to fix these errors:
1) First find out the ffmpeg path with ffmpeg –help command. The prefix default path should be like /usr/local/cpffmpeg
2) Configure the FFmpeg-php with –with-ffmpeg option
./configure –with-ffmpeg=/usr/local/cpffmpeg
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Please follow the steps given below to restart Sendmail after editing your configuration Files:-
#!/bin/bash
cd /etc/mail
make
newaliases
/etc/init.d/sendmail restart
It will first runs the make command, which creates a new sendmail.cf file from the sendmail.mc file and then compiles supporting configuration files in the /etc/mail directory according to the instructions in the file /etc/mail/Makefile. After thar it generates new e-mail aliases with the newaliases command, and then restarts sendmail.
To make the script executable use this command.
chmod 700 filename
You will need to run the script every time you change any of the sendmail configuration files described in the sections to follow.
The line in the script that restarts sendmail is only needed if you have made changes to the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file, but It included it so that you don’t forget.
Note: When sendmail starts, it reads the file sendmail.cf for its configuration. sendmail.mc is a more user friendly configuration file and really is much easier to fool around with without getting burned. These sendmail.cf file is located in different directories depending on the version of RedHat you use. The /etc/sendmail.cf file is used for versions up to 7.3, and /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is used for versions 8.0 and higher and Fedora Core.
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