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Robert Loszewski
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So I’ve invested a ton of time and a good chunk of money working with two different companies to solve the problem of thumbnails not being generated upon uploading .flv and .mp4 videos. I finally have everything working now and thought I’d share the information here for others that may be experiencing the same issues.
The problem is that my server, a CentOS 6 is running the latest version of PHP, 5.4.22 to be exact. The video responsive theme requires ffmpeg with ffmpeg-php. The problem is that ffmpeg-php is about 6 years old and no longer under development. It will not compile with newer versions of ffmpeg, so as a result, you have to use an older version of ffmpeg.
The company I worked with did the following:
We have installed ffmpeg-php we had to adjust the source code of the module so it would compile with php 5.4
We also created the following symlink at /var/lib64
ln -s libx264.so.107 libx264.so.68
root@server2 [/usr/lib64]# ls -la /usr/lib64/ | grep libx264
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 790042 Nov 12 2010 libx264.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 22 14:49 libx264.so -> libx264.so.68*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3091954 Dec 4 2010 libx264.so.107*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 13 14:55 libx264.so.68 ->libx264.so.107*
The module wanted to load from libx264.so which pointed to libx264.so.68* , libx264.so.68 didn’t exist so we linked it to libx264.so.107
The module is now being properly recognized by php and it will show on a phpinfo file :
root@server2 [/usr/lib64]# php -i | grep -i ffmpeg
ffmpeg
ffmpeg-php version => 0.6.0-svn
ffmpeg-php built on => Dec 13 2013 14:31:42
ffmpeg-php gd support => enabled
ffmpeg libavcodec version => Lavc52.20.1
ffmpeg libavformat version => Lavf52.31.0
ffmpeg swscaler version => SwS0.7.1
ffmpeg.allow_persistent => 0 => 0
ffmpeg.show_warnings => 0 => 0
———————————————————–
That worked for .flv video uploads, but not .mp4 videos. They updated ffmpeg from 0.5.2-2 to 0.6.5-1 and now thumbnails are generated for .mp4 video uploads.
Hopefully, this information will save others a lot of the headaches I went through.
So I’ve invested a ton of time and a good chunk of money working with two different companies to solve the problem of thumbnails not being generated upon uploading .flv and .mp4 videos. I finally have everything working now and thought I’d share the information here for others that may be experiencing the same issues.
The problem is that my server, a CentOS 6 is running the latest version of PHP, 5.4.22 to be exact. The video responsive theme requires ffmpeg with ffmpeg-php. The problem is that ffmpeg-php is about 6 years old and no longer under development. It will not compile with newer versions of ffmpeg, so as a result, you have to use an older version of ffmpeg.
The company I worked with did the following:
We have installed ffmpeg-php we had to adjust the source code of the module so it would compile with php 5.4
We also created the following symlink at /var/lib64
ln -s libx264.so.107 libx264.so.68
root@server2 [/usr/lib64]# ls -la /usr/lib64/ | grep libx264
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 790042 Nov 12 2010 libx264.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 22 14:49 libx264.so -> libx264.so.68*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3091954 Dec 4 2010 libx264.so.107*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 13 14:55 libx264.so.68 ->libx264.so.107*
The module wanted to load from libx264.so which pointed to libx264.so.68* , libx264.so.68 didn’t exist so we linked it to libx264.so.107
The module is now being properly recognized by php and it will show on a phpinfo file :
root@server2 [/usr/lib64]# php -i | grep -i ffmpeg
ffmpeg
ffmpeg-php version => 0.6.0-svn
ffmpeg-php built on => Dec 13 2013 14:31:42
ffmpeg-php gd support => enabled
ffmpeg libavcodec version => Lavc52.20.1
ffmpeg libavformat version => Lavf52.31.0
ffmpeg swscaler version => SwS0.7.1
ffmpeg.allow_persistent => 0 => 0
ffmpeg.show_warnings => 0 => 0
———————————————————–
That worked for .flv video uploads, but not .mp4 videos. They updated ffmpeg from 0.5.2-2 to 0.6.5-1 and now thumbnails are generated for .mp4 video uploads.
Hopefully, this information will save others a lot of the headaches I went through.
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