I have been spending hours figuring out why I always get an error "Unable to load FFProbe" after installing the FFmpeg package.
1/ I read that I need to add the following line in the .env file
PHP_FPM_FFMPEG=true
2/ I restarted apache and run the following command in Terminal (takes sometimes)
cd Sites/laradock
docker-compose build
3/ Then I installed the FFmpeg package in my project
composer require pbmedia/laravel-ffmpeg
4/ no error, so far... I can see the package is correctly installed in /vendor/pbmedia... but when I try to use FFmpeg in a controller, I get the "Unable to load FFProbe" error
use FFMpeg;
...
$ffmpeg = FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create();
$video = $ffmpeg->open($link);
$frame = $video->frame(FFMpeg\Coordinate\TimeCode::fromSeconds($sec));
$frame->save($thumbnail);
5/ Should I manually add the following lines in the config/app.php file?
in 'providers' ...
ProtoneMedia\LaravelFFMpeg\Support\ServiceProvider::class,
in 'aliases'...
'FFMpeg' => ProtoneMedia\LaravelFFMpeg\Support\FFMpeg::class
6/ Should I also add a new file in the config folder?
This is so confusing... please help
