Ffmpeg-php to create a video thumbnail

Question

I am trying to use this script to sketch a video using ffmpeg . At first I used phpinfo(); , and I found that ffmpeg is installed on my server.

Then I copied ffmpeg-php to my server and ran a test file

I found out that many functions work on my server

I got a result like this

Exit: -

 Functions available in /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/ffmpeg.so extension: Methods available in class ffmpeg_movie: __construct getduration getframecount getframerate getfilename getcomment gettitle getauthor getartist getcopyright getalbum getgenre getyear gettracknumber getframewidth getframeheight getframenumber getpixelformat getbitrate hasaudio hasvideo getnextkeyframe getframe getvideocodec getaudiocodec getvideostreamid getaudiostreamid getaudiochannels getaudiosamplerate getaudiobitrate getvideobitrate getpixelaspectratio getpixelaspectratio getvideobitrate getaudiobitrate getaudiosamplerate getaudiochannels getaudiostreamid getvideostreamid getaudiocodec getvideocodec getframe getnextkeyframe hasvideo hasaudio getbitrate getpixelformat getframenumber getframeheight getframewidth gettracknumber getyear getgenre getalbum getcopyright getartist getauthor gettitle getcomment getfilename getframerate getframecount getduration __construct 

I wrote this code and tried any possible way to assign $ffmpeg;

 <?php $thumb_stdout; $retval=0; $ffmpeg = '/home/lib/ffmpeg'; // change "demo.mpg" to your mpg file name! $video = dirname(__FILE__) . 'demo.mpg'; // change "demo.jpg" to whichever name you like or don't // for this example, the name of the output jpg file does not matter $image = dirname(__FILE__) . 'demo.jpg'; $second = 1; $cmd = "$ffmpeg -i $video 2>&1"; if (preg_match('/Duration: ((\d+):(\d+):(\d+))/s', '$cmd', $time)) { $total = ($time[2] * 3600) + ($time[3] * 60) + $time[4]; $second = rand(1, ($total - 1)); } //$cmd = "$ffmpeg -i $video -deinterlace -an -ss $second -t 00:00:01 -r 1 -y -vcodec mjpeg -f mjpeg $image 2>&1"; $cmd = "$ffmpeg -i $video -r 1 -ss 00:00:05 -t 00:00:01 -s 250x250 -f image2 $image"; echo $cmd; exec($cmd); //$return = '$cmd'; echo '<br>done!'; ?> 

Answer 1

I finally got the code thanks to Anubhaw . Your link helped lot.Try this code.

  //thumb path should be added in the below code //test for thumb $dir_img='uploads/'; $mediapath='123.jpg'; $file_thumb=create_movie_thumb($dir_img.$mediapath,$mediapath,$mediaid); $name_file=explode(".",$mediapath); $imgname="thumb_".$name_file[0].".jpg"; /* Function to create video thumbnail using ffmpeg */ function create_movie_thumb($src_file,$mediapath,$mediaid) { global $CONFIG, $ERROR; $CONFIG['ffmpeg_path'] = '/usr/local/bin/'; // Change the path according to your server. $dir_img='uploads/'; $CONFIG['fullpath'] = $dir_img."thumbs/"; $src_file = $src_file; $name_file=explode(".",$mediapath); $imgname="thumb_".$name_file[0].".jpg"; $dest_file = $CONFIG['fullpath'].$imgname; if (preg_match("#[AZ]:|\\\\#Ai", __FILE__)) { // get the basedir, remove '/include' $cur_dir = substr(dirname(__FILE__), 0, -8); $src_file = '"' . $cur_dir . '\\' . strtr($src_file, '/', '\\') . '"'; $ff_dest_file = '"' . $cur_dir . '\\' . strtr($dest_file, '/', '\\') . '"'; } else { $src_file = escapeshellarg($src_file); $ff_dest_file = escapeshellarg($dest_file); } $output = array(); if (eregi("win",$_ENV['OS'])) { // Command to create video thumb $cmd = "\"".str_replace("\\","/", $CONFIG['ffmpeg_path'])."ffmpeg\" -i ".str_replace("\\","/" ,$src_file )." -an -ss 00:00:05 -r 1 -vframes 1 -y ".str_replace("\\","/" ,$ff_dest_file); exec ("\"$cmd\"", $output, $retval); } else { // Command to create video thumb $cmd = "{$CONFIG['ffmpeg_path']}ffmpeg -i $src_file -an -ss 00:00:05 -r 1 -vframes 1 -y $ff_dest_file"; exec ($cmd, $output, $retval); } if ($retval) { $ERROR = "Error executing FFmpeg - Return value: $retval"; if ($CONFIG['debug_mode']) { // Re-execute the command with the backtick operator in order to get all outputs // will not work if safe mode is enabled $output = `$cmd 2>&1`; $ERROR .= "<br /><br /><div align=\"left\">Cmd line : <br /><span style=\"font-size:120%\">" . nl2br(htmlspecialchars($cmd)) . "</span></div>"; $ERROR .= "<br /><br /><div align=\"left\">The ffmpeg program said:<br /><span style=\"font-size:120%\">"; $ERROR .= nl2br(htmlspecialchars($output)); $ERROR .= "</span></div>"; } @unlink($dest_file); return false; } $return = $dest_file; //@chmod($return, octdec($CONFIG['default_file_mode'])); //silence the output in case chmod is disabled return $return; } 

Enjoy coding

with considering,

Wasim

Answer 2

I looked at the code, simplified it and executed it, maybe this will help some of you.

 class VideoTile { public static function createMovieThumb($srcFile, $destFile = "test.jpg") { // Change the path according to your server. $ffmpeg_path = 'D:\\ffmpeg\\bin\\'; $output = array(); $cmd = sprintf('%sffmpeg -i %s -an -ss 00:00:05 -r 1 -vframes 1 -y %s', $ffmpeg_path, $srcFile, $destFile); if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3) == 'WIN')) $cmd = str_replace('/', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $cmd); else $cmd = str_replace('\\', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $cmd); exec($cmd, $output, $retval); if ($retval) return false; return $destFile; } } 

Using

 $file = VideoTile::createMovieThumb("../video3.mp4");