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FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line program for transcoding multimedia files.

FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line program for transcoding multimedia files.

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ffmpeg fails inside PHP exec();

I am trying to get info from a file with ffmpeg, if inside php I have this code: exec("ffmpeg -i ffmpeg_directory/4.flv"); Returns nothing, even tough same command inside SSH would print a large list of file info (fps, duration, etc). But this…
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Pbxnsip Music on Hold: Streaming shoutcast to RTP on Linux

So we have the PBXNsip PBX server. We want to hear shoutcast for the Music On Hold (MOH). They do offer an RTP for the MOH, but the music we want to hear is Shoutcast, and mp3 format. Is anyone experienced with using mplayer/ffmpeg/ffserver to…
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svn: Can't connect to host Connection refused

I'm trying to instal FFMPEG to my server but the command svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg Returns svn: Can't connect to host 'svn.mplayerhq.hu': Connection refused I can normally PING svn.mplayerhq.hu and disabling the…
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How to install/configure ffmpeg to compress mp4 videos for flash player delivery?

We have a flash web-app that created interactive video, and are using ffmpeg to do some compression/resizing when a user "publishes" their project. The user can upload flv files and mp4 files, both of which play fine in the Flash UI before…
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Server crashes when running shell script

I have a virtual machine running CentOS 5.5 that I use as a streaming server. If I open 4 terminals and do this: terminal 1: # mkfifo pipe1.avi # mkfifo pipe2.avi # ffserver & # ffmpeg -probesize 164000 -i pipe1.avi -async 1 -r 25…
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install ffmpeg on 1and1 dedicated server

anyone know how to do this? have contacted the server company who will not help I have a dedicated server, running on centos parralells plesk panel thanks
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Real time transcoding of multiple RTMP-Streams

I am very frustrated after talking to many companies doing live-streaming or selling streaming-products and I hope someone could get me to the right direction. Here is my problem: We are broadcasting sportevents live to the internet via flash media…
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What permissions are needed to run a system() command within a php script that writes to a folder?

I've got a php script which has the line: system("ffmpeg -i ......"); The output folder is set to be: drwxrwxr-x 5 apache apache 4096 Oct 19 07:40 in_upload If I run the exact text "ffmpeg -i ......" from the prompt as root, it works fine. But…
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Check if a RTMP-Stream is running and start ffmpeg to transcode the stream

I'm using ffmpeg to transcode a rtmp-stream and re-stream it with ffmpeg. I have 2 problems: how can I check if the remote rtmp-stream is running and then start ffmpeg sometimes ffmpeg breaks up transcoding and it must be restarted…
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Nginx with rtmp module and ffmpeg adaptive stream is not creating master dash manifest

I have a working setup of nginx with the rtmp module working like a charm creating live streams with both dash and hsl. No problem so far. When I try to enable ffmpeg transcoding for adaptive streaming, it creates the hls version just fine, the…
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ffmpeg not able to yum

I am on CentOS8. I am facing similar situation as in this question, tried everything suggest in answers but could not solve. Why I can't install ffmpeg on CentOS 7 I am trying to install ffmpeg-devel which needs ffmpeg-libs and which needs…
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ffmpeg rtsp to hls streaming choppy and stops automatically

I use ffmpeg + nginx/rtmp to restream video from ip cam to web page. The command I use is: ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -use_wallclock_as_timestamps 1 -i rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.28.120/ -f flv -c:v copy -c:a copy…
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Streaming audio using switchable sources without killing streaming uplink (Poor Man's Barix Extreamer?)

Okay, so I'm the lone IT staff in a radio station and I've got a headscratcher (for me). We had a pair of PCs streaming our audio (received back from over-the-air, output through a monitor into the mic jack) to a commercial streaming service, one…
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Bash script ffmpeg pic to video not working but does in command line

This works in command line for a sequence of jpg to convert to a video. cat *.jpg | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -framerate 5 -i - -s 1280x720 ./HD720_out.mp4 but doesn't work (except for first jpg) in a executable script temp.sh containing: eval …
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Does ffmpeg work on a shared hosting environment running under Windows 2008/IIS 7?

I emailed a company a question and the response was to "check with the vendors of these products if it can run on a shared hosting environment running under Windows 2008/IIS 7" I never used Windows 2008/IIS 7 nor have a clue what the difference…
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