FFMPEG Installed ?

How can I check whether my VPS with LXadmin control has FFMPEG PHP addon installed ?

 

Use phpinfo(), Luke.

 

Correct! To verify whether ffmpeg-php can utilize your ffmpeg binary or not use the following commands from your ssh:

which ffmpeg

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This should return the path to some /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin if its installed. To verify the status of ffmpeg-php under ffmpeg module use this command:

php -r 'phpinfo();' | grep ffmpeg

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This should return a 3 lines path including ffmpeg binaries and stuffs. Sometimes for lib problem, you will see more than 3 lines explaining some other paths. If thus, then just type ffmpeg in your shell prompt and if it returns any error, try to fix it by contacting your host or admin. Otherwise it should return you the ffmpeg manual.

Good Luck

 

For a normal LXAdmin installations, I don't think there is FFMPEG support

 

So how can I install them ?

 

ffmpeg is never setup as default, first install ffmpeg and then install the ffmpeg-php extension. If you have not done this before then you should consider hiring an server admin to do it for you.

 

An easy tutorial for installing ffmpeg here. Remember you should be on a host with root previleges not in shared host.