OK, I was reading the wiki, FFmpeg and it says that FFmpeg is already installed on dreamhost. Is that true?
if so, I would like to know why this doesn’t work… any one know?
[quote]<?php
$loca = ‘…/…/tzfiles.com/users/ryan/file.mpg’;
$new = ‘…/…/tzfiles.com/users/ryan/file.flv’;
if(exec("/home/ryannaddy/bin/ffmpeg -i $loca -ar 22050 -ab 32 -f flv -s 320x240 $new"))
echo ‘SUCCESS!!!’;
else
echo ‘FAILED :(’;
?>[/quote]
the output says FAILED 
Does the ffmpeg binary actually exist in “/home/ryannaddy/bin/ffmpeg”?
Perhaps you should run a which ffmpeg (from the shell) to discover the exact location of ffmpeg on your dreamhost server, and use that instead 
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it is “/usr/bin/ffmpeg”
so I switched it, and it still doesn’t work.
Any ideas why now?
[quote]<?php
$loca = ‘…/…/tzfiles.com/users/ryan/file.mpg’;
$new = ‘…/…/tzfiles.com/users/ryan/file.flv’;
if(file_exists($loca)){
if(exec("/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i “.$loca.” -ar 22050 -ab 32 -f flv -s 320x240 ".$new))
echo ‘SUCCESS!!!’;
else
echo ‘FAILED :(’;
}else{
echo ‘File Doesn’t exist’;
}
?>[/quote]
Browsing to http://tzfiles.com/users/ryan/ shows that /home/yourusername/tzfiles.com/users/ryan/file.mpg does not exist, so it should fail (even if your path to that file was correctly stated).
–rlparker
OK, the file file.mpg is now there.
http://tzfiles.com/users/ryan/file.mpg
The file I was using had spaces in the file name.
If I remove the spaces it works.
What do I need to do to allow for the spaces? doesn’t work, I have tried it.
Linux commandline tools do not like spaces…you should rename the file to eliminate spaces before processing it with ffmpeg.
–rlparker
That is what I thought I had to do, thanks!
I was thinking:
You could always just add quotes… Then you don’t have to muck with filenames.
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