I am looking at having a website script developed for me and one programmer told me that my server will need ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php installed for the script to work. <br /><br />Any idea what those are?<!--content-->
From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>:<br /><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->FFmpeg is a collection of free software that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video. It includes libavcodec, a leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is developed under Linux, but it can be compiled under most operating systems, including Windows.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->From <a href="http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net</a>:<br /><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->ffmpeg-php is an extension for PHP that adds an easy to use, object-oriented API for accessing and retrieving information from video and audio files. It has methods for returning frames from movie files as images that can be manipulated using PHP's image functions. This works well for automatically creating thumbnail images from movies. ffmpeg-php is also useful for reporting the duration and bitrate of audio files (mp3, wma...). ffmpeg-php can access many of the video formats supported by ffmpeg (mov, avi, mpg, wmv...)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />I think these are installed/working on the TCH-servers.<!--content-->
<!--quoteo(post=193386:date=Oct 28 2006, 04:04 AM:name=TCH-Thomas)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TCH-Thomas @ Oct 28 2006, 04:04 AM) <a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=193386"><img src='http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I think these are installed/working on the TCH-servers.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Is there a way I can determine definitively if they are installed on TCH Servers?<br /><br />Thank you.<!--content-->
Open a ticket with the help desk and ask. Provide them with the server number you are on.<!--content-->
From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>:<br /><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->FFmpeg is a collection of free software that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video. It includes libavcodec, a leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is developed under Linux, but it can be compiled under most operating systems, including Windows.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->From <a href="http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net</a>:<br /><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->ffmpeg-php is an extension for PHP that adds an easy to use, object-oriented API for accessing and retrieving information from video and audio files. It has methods for returning frames from movie files as images that can be manipulated using PHP's image functions. This works well for automatically creating thumbnail images from movies. ffmpeg-php is also useful for reporting the duration and bitrate of audio files (mp3, wma...). ffmpeg-php can access many of the video formats supported by ffmpeg (mov, avi, mpg, wmv...)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />I think these are installed/working on the TCH-servers.<!--content-->
<!--quoteo(post=193386:date=Oct 28 2006, 04:04 AM:name=TCH-Thomas)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TCH-Thomas @ Oct 28 2006, 04:04 AM) <a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=193386"><img src='http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I think these are installed/working on the TCH-servers.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Is there a way I can determine definitively if they are installed on TCH Servers?<br /><br />Thank you.<!--content-->
Open a ticket with the help desk and ask. Provide them with the server number you are on.<!--content-->