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Question
How to install the ffmpeg-php extension in Plesk for CentOS 7?
Answer
Note: Due to the issue discussed here, ffmpeg-php cannot be installed for PHP 7.x provided by Plesk due to conflicts with Zend.
The following error message will appear during installation:
Error: too many arguments to function 'zend_hash_find'
In order to install ffmpeg-php for Plesk PHP 7.x, a custom PHP version should be installed and then ffmpeg-php be installed for it.
If you would like to see ffmpeg-php pre-installed in PHP provided by Plesk, please vote for this feature on Plesk UserVoice.
Follow the next steps to install ffmpeg-php extension for PHP 5.6 provided by Plesk on CentOS 7:
Warning: all actions below are performed at your own risk.
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Connect to a Plesk server via SSH.
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Install the EPEL repository:
# yum install epel*
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Enable RPM Fusion:
# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-7.noarch.rpm
# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-7.noarch.rpm -
Install FFmpeg and packages necessary for its installation:
# yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel mplayer mencoder flvtool2 libogg libvorbis lame
# yum install make plesk-php56-devel gcc glibc-devel zlib-devel -
Download ffmpeg-php:
# mkdir /root/ffmpeg_dir
# cd /root/ffmpeg_dir && git clone https://github.com/nilsringersma/ffmpeg-php
# cd ffmpeg-php
# /opt/plesk/php/5.6/bin/phpize -
Modify the
ffmpeg_frame.cfile:6.1. Open the file in any text editor. In this example, we are using the vi editor:
# vi /root/ffmpeg_dir/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg_frame.c
6.2. Find the lines:
CONFIG_TEXT: #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include "config.h"
#endifand right after them add:
CONFIG_TEXT: #ifndef PIX_FMT_RGB32
#define PIX_FMT_RGB32 AV_PIX_FMT_RGB32
#endif6.3. Save the changes and close the file.
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Edit the file
php_ffmpeg.husing the command:# sed -i 's/define av_frame_alloc avcodec_alloc_frame/define avcodec_alloc_frame av_frame_alloc/g' /root/ffmpeg_dir/ffmpeg-php/php_ffmpeg.h
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Configure & make:
# ./configure --with-php-config=/opt/plesk/php/5.6/bin/php-config --enable-skip-gd-check
# make clean && make && make install -
Enable the extension and update PHP settings in Plesk:
# echo "extension=ffmpeg.so" > /opt/plesk/php/5.6/etc/php.d/ffmpeg.ini
# plesk bin php_handler --rereadThe ffmpeg extension will also appear in Plesk at Tools & Settings > PHP Settings > PHP 5.6 (No matter CGI, FastCGI or FPM application).
Comments
12 comments
Hello Alexandr, it’s possible to install it for php 7? cause all my scripts are working now with php 7.
Regards
Carsten
@Carsten Sachse
Unfortunately, it cannot be compiled due to conflicts with Zend, which is included in PHP 7.0 shipped with Plesk:
You may try to add custom PHP version and to install FFmpeg module for it.
ffmpeg is installed but script cant find it here /usr/bin/ffmpeg
@Sohail Khan
Hi!
Please check whether 'ffmpeg_path' is specified in the script and that it is pointing to /usr/bin/ffmpeg.
Check that ffmpeg is in place:
# whereis ffmpeg
ffmpeg: /usr/bin/ffmpeg /usr/include/ffmpeg /usr/share/ffmpeg /usr/share/man/man1/ffmpeg.1.gz
And check that permissions on /usr/bin/ffmpeg are 755 root:root.
# For a single website, the 'composer' can be used instead. See the command below for the installation and the following link for usage examples: https://github.com/PHP-FFMpeg/PHP-FFMpeg
any guide on how to do this on specific subscription?
Hi Alex,
I follow this : /opt/plesk/php/7.2/bin/php /usr/lib64/plesk-9.0/composer.phar install php-ffmpeg/php-ffmpeg
But get bellow error:
Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
Invalid argument php-ffmpeg/php-ffmpeg. Use "composer require php-ffmpeg/php-ffmpeg" instead to add packages to your composer.json.
Please help.
Hello @Sharul Hafiz,
PHP extension cannot be installed for a single website, only for the whole PHP
However, as soon as you installed it to some specific PHP version, select this PHP for the domain:
How to change PHP version for a domain in Plesk?
I also removed incorrect information from the article. Thank you for pointing that out!
Hello @VAV
The "composer install" does not require specifying packages (the same info can be found here)
Thus, the correct command will be the next:
However, if you would like to add the mentioned packages to the "composer.json" file, use the next command (the same info can be found here):
Additional information about Composer CLI can be found here:
Composer Documentation | CLI
We install successful with 7.3 php version and work fine. Thanks for Nikita.
We have this error in final: https://www.codepile.net/pile/YxRyXjMn
Hi @Ion Iacob,
One point here: you successfully installed the ffmpeg-php extension for PHP 7.3
OR
The following error appears:
in an attempt to run this command:
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The ffmpeg-php works, but after executing this # make clean && make && make install it gave the errors that I shared.
The extension is not displayed in Plesk at Tools & Settings> PHP Settings> PHP 7.3
Hi @Ion Iacob,
Reproduced the same errors on my test environment
It happens when steps 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 were skipped
Please edit the ffmpeg_frame.c file as it suggested in these steps and follow steps 7, 8 and 9 further
If the issue still occurs, please repeat all steps from the beginning one more time in order to make sure that nothing was missed
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