I'm using the PHP-FFMpeg repository to do some video work inside my Laravel application, but I'm encountering some issues setting it up. Once I've installed the PHP-FFMpeg repo, I try and create an FFMpeg
instance:
$ffmpeg = \FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create();
However, this does not work. In response, I get an ErrorException that simply states:
Unable to load FFProbe
This does not make sense to me, as when I run ffmpeg
and ffprobe
from my Mac's terminal, I can see they are installed. This is clearly a path/resolving issue, but I'm unsure how to fix it. Any ideas?
This is all hosted under a MAMP project, running on localhost.
$ffmpeg = \FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create([
'ffmpeg.binaries' => '/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg',
'ffprobe.binaries' => '/usr/local/bin/ffprobe'
]);
your ffmpeg installation path.
that is what @limonte means, and it is working to me.
Specifying paths to binaries should help:
$ffmpeg = \FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create([
'ffmpeg.binaries' => exec('which ffmpeg'),
'ffprobe.binaries' => exec('which ffprobe')
]);
I spent a lot of time in researching this and I am posting this answer for anyone experiencing similar issue on windows. The library removes the backslashes
(D:\binaries\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe)
so you should use forward slashes instead
(D:/binaries/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.exe)
this will work on widows. Hope this helps