friends, how can I run commands ffmpeg in Laravel and Windows?
And how is the ffmpeg installation correctly?
Is it possible to execute custom commands with PHP-FFMPeg package?
I installed it as a enviroment variable and it recognizes it inside Cmd, but in Laravel it gives an error of not recognizing ffmpeg?
WARN ‘ffmpeg’ is not recognized as an internal or external command , this error
>Solution :
To run ffmpeg command in Laravel on Windows, follow steps:
- Download the ffmpeg executable for Windows from the official website: https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-windows
- Extract the ffmpeg executable to a directory, for example C:\ffmpeg\bin
- Add the path to the ffmpeg executable to the Windows system PATH environment variable. follow these steps:
- Press the Windows key and search for "Environment Variables"
- Click on "Edit the system environment variables"
- Click on "Environment Variables" button
- Under "System variables" section, scroll down and find "Path"
- Click "Edit" and add the path to the ffmpeg executable, for example C:\ffmpeg\bin, at the end of the existing values. Make sure to separate the path with a semicolon ; from the previous value.
- In your Laravel project, you can now use the exec() function to execute the ffmpeg command. For example, to convert a video file to MP4 format, you can use the following code:
$inputFile = '/path/to/input/video.avi';
$outputFile = '/path/to/output/video.mp4';
$command = "ffmpeg -i $inputFile $outputFile";
exec($command);
Note : Note: Replace /path/to/input/video.avi and /path/to/output/video.mp4 with the actual file paths on your system.