php ffmpeg

PHP-FFMpeg is a powerful PHP wrapper for the FFmpeg multimedia library. It allows developers to easily manipulate audio and video files using FFmpeg's extensive set of features. With PHP-FFMpeg, you can perform tasks such as converting media files to different formats, extracting frames from videos, adding watermarks, merging multiple videos, and much more.

To use PHP-FFMpeg, you need to have FFmpeg installed on your server. You can check if FFmpeg is installed by running the following command in your terminal:

ffmpeg -version

If FFmpeg is not installed, you can follow the installation instructions provided by FFmpeg's official website.

Once FFmpeg is installed, you can install PHP-FFMpeg using Composer by running the following command in your project's root directory:

composer require php-ffmpeg/php-ffmpeg

After installing PHP-FFMpeg, you can start using its functionalities in your PHP code. Here's a simple example that converts a video file to a different format:

use FFMpeg\FFMpeg;

$ffmpeg = FFMpeg::create();

$inputFile = '/path/to/input/video.mp4';
$outputFile = '/path/to/output/video.avi';

$video = $ffmpeg->open($inputFile);
$video->save(new FFMpeg\Format\Video\X264(), $outputFile);

In this example, we first create an instance of the FFMpeg class. Then, we specify the input and output file paths. We open the input file using $ffmpeg->open() and save it to the output file using $video->save() with the desired output format.

This is just a basic example, and PHP-FFMpeg provides many more features and options for manipulating audio and video files. You can refer to the official documentation of PHP-FFMpeg for more details and examples.