Install FFMPEG and FFMPEG-PHP in CentOS 6 with Virtualmin

1 year ago -  by Daniel -  howto centos virtualmin ffmpeg ffmpeg-php

The other day I was requested to set-up few requirements for a client such as mod_rewrite, GD library, PHP Dom, bcmath etc.. and among these in the list there was theFFMPEG library and the FFMPEG-PHP extension. OK, no big deal, but this box has CentOS 6 (RHEL6) with Virtualmin/Webmin set-up on top of it using the base repositories only, so let‘s do it I said...

ok, I took the following steps in order to install and set-up FFMPEG and FFMPEG-PHP in CentOS 6 with Virtualmin

1. Update the system
2. Install Development Tools
3. Protect base repositories
4. Add dag‘s repository
5. Install FFMPEG
6. Install FFMPEG-PHP
7. Load FFMPEG-PHP extension

1. Make sure the CentOS 6 system is fully up-to-date

yum update

2. Install Development Tools

yum groupinstall "Development tools"

3. Protect the base repositories so the packages don‘t get updated by the unprotected ones

Install the ProtectBase yum plugin by

yum install yum-protectbase

and then navigate to /etc/yum.repos.d

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

before doing any changes to the repositories, always do backup of the original ones.

cp -prv ../yum.repos.d{,.orig}

in order for a repository to be protected, a line protect=1 needs to be added to each repository section in CentOS-Base.repo, CentOS-Media.repo and virtualmin.repo.

So, edit these files using your favourite editor or do the sed if you‘re feeling brave

sed -i ‘/gpgkey=/a\protect=1‘ CentOS-{Base,Media}.repo
sed -i ‘/gpgkey=/a\protect=1‘ virtualmin.repo

4. Add dag‘s repository by adding the following to /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
enabled=1
protect=0

next import dag‘s rpm gpg key by

wget http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt -P /tmp
rpm --import /tmp/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

5. Proceed with installing FFMPEG and some development packages

yum install ffmpeg-devel php-devel re2c php-xml ffmpeg

verify FFMPEG is installed successfully by executing

ffmpeg

you should get something like

FFmpeg version 0.6.5, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jan 29 2012 17:52:15 with gcc 4.4.5 20110214 (Red Hat 4.4.5-6)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --incdir=/usr/include --disable-avisynth --extra-cflags=‘-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC‘ --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libdirac --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaadbin --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --enable-shared --enable-swscale --enable-vdpau --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab
libavutil 50.15. 1 / 50.15. 1
libavcodec 52.72. 2 / 52.72. 2
libavformat 52.64. 2 / 52.64. 2
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libavfilter 1.19. 0 / 1.19. 0
libswscale 0.11. 0 / 0.11. 0
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder

6. Compile and install the FFMPEG-PHP extension

mkdir /srv/build
cd /srv/build
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php/0.6.0/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2
tar -xjf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2
cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/

phpize
./configure

now run the following to prevent compilation failure with something like ffmpeg_frame.c:421: error: ‘PIX_FMT_RGBA32’ undeclared (first use in this function)

sed -i ‘s#PIX_FMT_RGBA32#PIX_FMT_RGB32#‘ ./ffmpeg_frame.c

and compile and install using

make
make install

you should end up with something like

Installing shared extensions:     /usr/lib64/php/modules/

7. Load the FFMPEG-PHP extension and reload Apache

echo -e "extension=ffmpeg.so\n" > /etc/php.d/ffmpeg.ini

restart the webserver by

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

verify that the FFMPEG-PHP extension is loaded

php -i | grep ffmpeg
php -m | grep ffmpeg