PHP exec and mediainfo

Asked Jul 28 '15 at 06:57

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I have a problem with my php script and mediainfo. I run xampp, i set the permission of my working folder to 777,but if i try to use:

exec("mediainfo /path/of/the/file/video.avi > /path/of/the/output/report.txt")

    exec("mediainfo --logfile=path /path/of/the/file/video.avi")

it doesn't work. the same command in the terminal works fine. Any advice?

Regards

asked Jul 28 '15 at 06:57

user1825932

Do you get any error message? Exec() might be switched off in your server settings. – Tate83 Jul 28 '15 at 07:02
Hi, thanks for your answer. No i don't get any error message. Exec is on, if i try with other tool or exec simple cli command it works fine – user1825932 Jul 28 '15 at 07:15
Hi. Did you try escaping the `"`? – Tate83 Jul 28 '15 at 07:16
can you show me how? – user1825932 Jul 28 '15 at 07:19
basically that means that you need to tell php to let the special chars pass like this `exec(\"mediainfo` - the `backslash` does the trick. There is a lot of documentation online about all the various ways and tricks to do that. – Tate83 Jul 28 '15 at 08:03
i try this way but still doesn't work – user1825932 Jul 28 '15 at 16:47

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