what is "ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php"

[edprush]

I am looking at having a website script developed for me and one programmer told me that my server will need ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php installed for the script to work.

Any idea what those are?

 

[ManBearPig]

sounds like it has something to do with ffdshow, but im probably wrong.

 

[BurnItDwn]

ffmpeg is a very handy app.
It can encode, decode, and "rip" video/audo from a capture card..

I've never used ffmpeg-php, but my guess is it would be some type of a frontend for ffmpeg to talk to Apache.

I use ffmpeg all the time (though I have a very nice GUI frontend that I use with it most of the time, MythTV rocks!)

 

[edprush]

Are there many web hosts that have it installed? I have not come across it before.

Thanks.

 

[Nothinman]

ffmpeg-php is an extension for PHP that adds an easy to use, object-oriented API for accessing and retrieving information from video and audio files. It has methods for returning frames from movie files as images that can be manipulated using PHP's image functions. This works well for automatically creating thumbnail images from movies. ffmpeg-php is also useful for reporting the duration and bitrate of audio files (mp3, wma...). ffmpeg-php can access many of the video formats supported by ffmpeg (mov, avi, mpg, wmv...)