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char0n edited this page Sep 7, 2011 · 1 revision

Why use FFmpegPHP

In short FFmpegPHP is a full featured replacement for the unmaintained and obsolete mid 90s PHP extension; ffmpeg-php. The newest version of PHP 5.2.* can cause PHP core dumps or ffmpeg-php segmentation faults. Which may make scripting the fantastic features of `ffmpeg` with multimedia files quite frusturating . Please feel free to test it and spread the good word.

About

FFmpegPHP is a pure OO PHP port of ffmpeg-php writter in C. It 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. FFmpegPHP is also useful for reporting the duration and bitrate of audio files (mp3, wma…). FFmpegPHP can access many of the video formats supported by ffmpeg (mov, avi, mpg, wmv…)

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