Category Archives: ffmpeg

ffmpeg – file name too long

ffmpeg,

-filter_complex “[1]lut=a=val*0.5[a];[0][a]overlay=main_w-overlay_w-10:main_h-overlay_h-10“ -codec:v libx264 -r 29 -pix_fmt yuv420p -profile:v baseline -level 3 -b:v 3500k -s 320×240 -codec:a aac -strict experimental -ac 2 -b:a 64k

A few videos were being stucked on queue list… and I wasn’t finding the problem.
Looks like ffmpeg acts a little weird with “.

I’v replaced the ” with ‘ and the problem was fixed.

ERROR:HLSError – Cannot load M3U8: crossdomain access denied:Error #2048

ffmpeg, ,

 

ERROR:HLSError(code/url/msg)=1/http://www.domain.com/tutorials/laravel_facade/hls.m3u8/Cannot load M3U8: crossdomain access denied:Error #2048 VM1749:1 INFO:HLSNetStream:close

This is my crossdomain.xml example…

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy>
    <allow-access-from domain="*" secure="false" />
    <allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*" headers="*" secure="false"/>
</cross-domain-policy>

PHP exec in background

ffmpeg, PHP, ,

So, in one of my projects/products/services, I need to execute ffmpeg via PHP…
Usually I use at do send the job to a queue list.. unfortunately in two different clients’ servers somehow PHP + exec and at doesn’t work well….

This is how we send a PHP exec to background

exec(command > /dev/null 2>/dev/null &);

 

As seen on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8961470/how-to-make-shell-exec-run-in-background-while-php-continues

Install FFMPEG on Centos / CPanel FFmpeg Static Builds

cPanel, ffmpeg,

Download the latest FFmpeg Static Builds from http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/.

How to know if we need to download the 32 or 64 bits?
Lets run:

cat /etc/*release*
CentOS release 6.6 (Final)
LSB_VERSION=base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch

Or using uname (more reliable)

uname -m

I’v download it do a specific folder

wget http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-git-64bit-static.tar.xz

And the run the following command to uncompress it:

tar xf ffmpeg-git-64bit-static.tar.xz

To run ffmpeg or ffprobe we need to give the full path to them!

It worked!

With the lastest versions!
FFMPEG & FFPROBE

ROCK!

SOME PROBLEMS ON OLD MACHINES

-bash-3.2$ tar -xf ffmpeg-git-64bit-static.tar.xz 
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Read 5668 bytes from ffmpeg-git-64bit-static.tar.xz
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

tar version (fuckz!)

tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1

Well, this machine, where I got this error, is a managed server…
I didn’t bored to ask support to upgrade TAR or install XZ… but if you want, you can install XZ and then…

xz -d archive.tar.xz
tar xvf archive.tar

It might work! 🙂
Btw! On old machines kernel might not be compatible…

Frame rate very high for a muxer not efficiently supporting it

ffmpeg,

SH*T!
I had a 1h video, with about 400Mb…
My batch was taking HOURS (with a 8 core CPU) and creating a 5Gb mp4 file of the encoding….. wtf?

13442 www-data 22 2 1426m 361m 3884 R 614 4.5 2180:37 ffmpeg 
14462 www-data 22 2 1773m 966m 3660 R 100 12.1 293:07.12 ffmpeg

I had to run the command manually and figure out the issue.

 Metadata:
 creation_time : 2014-04-19 19:19:31
File 'video.mp4' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
[mp4 @ 0x26a8ae0] Frame rate very high for a muxer not efficiently supporting it.
Please consider specifying a lower framerate, a different muxer or -vsync 2
[libx264 @ 0x26c6ce0] using SAR=1/1
[libx264 @ 0x26c6ce0] MB rate (108000000) > level limit (2073600)

I had to add -vsync 2 to solve this.

/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i 14-18-14.mp4 -c:v libx264 -vsync 2 -threads 4 video.mp4