In this post, we will show you how to install ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php on a CentOS 6 VPS with a DirectAdmin control panel. FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework capable of decoding, encoding, transcoding, recording, converting and streaming digital audio and video in various formats. ffmpeg-php is a PHP extension which is used for accessing and retrieving information from video and audio files from within PHP scripts.
This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems with DirectAdmin installed as well but was tested and written for CentOS 6 VPS.
Install FFmpeg
First of all download and install RPMForge repository using the following commands:
user@myVPS:~# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.$(arch).rpm
user@myVPS:~# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.$(arch).rpm
Now you can install FFmpeg and some additional packages using yum.
user@myVPS:~# yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel libogg libvorbis lame flvtool2 mencoder
Install ffmpeg-php
To download and extract the ffmpeg-php tarball, run:
user@myVPS:~# wget https://centos.googlecode.com/files/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2
user@myVPS:~# tar -xjf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2 user@myVPS:~# cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0
Run ‘phpize’ to create the necessary build scripts
user@myVPS:~# phpize
If you get an error message “phpize: command not found”, It means that phpize is not in the system PATH. In our case, using PHP FPM version 5.6 the full path to the phpize is ‘/usr/local/php56/bin/phpize’, so we need to run:
user@myVPS:~# /usr/local/php56/bin/phpize
Run “configure” to set the installation options, in our case the command is as follows:
user@myVPS:~# ./configure --with-php-config=/usr/local/php56/bin/php-config
You can find the locations of phpize and php-config binaries using the find command:
user@myVPS:~# find /usr/local/ -type f -name
user@myVPS:~# phpize find /usr/local/ -type f -name php-config
Run make to start the compilation:
user@myVPS:~# make
If you get an error message like make: *** [ffmpeg_movie.lo] Error 1 open the ffmpeg_movie.c file and make the following changes:
user@myVPS:~# vim ffmpeg_movie.c
Change list_entry *le; to zend_rsrc_list_entry *le;
Change list_entry new_le; to zend_rsrc_list_entry new_le;
Change hashkey_length+1, (void *)&new_le, sizeof(list_entry), to hashkey_length+1, (void *)&new_le,sizeof(zend_rsrc_list_entry),
and restart the compilation:
user@myVPS:~# make
to install the binaries run:
user@myVPS:~# make install
Once the installation is complete, open the php.ini file
user@myVPS:~# vim /usr/local/php56/lib/php.ini
change the extension_dir to point to the extension directory, in our case :
extension_dir ="/usr/local/php56/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20131226/"
and append the following line to enable the ffmpeg extension
extension="ffmpeg.so"
Finally restart php-fpm for changes to take effect.
user@myVPS:~# service php-fpm56 restart
If you’re running PHP as an Apache module, then restart apache with the command below:
user@myVPS:~# service httpd restart
That’s it. You have successfully installed the ffmpeg-php extension.
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