Comments on: Using libmp3lame-enabled ffmpeg on shared hosting

By: Instructions on installing libmp3lame-enabled ffmpeg on shared linux hosting » Autarchy of the Private Cave

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:26:01 +0000

[...] this post is based on the comment by Simon, who generously shared his experience [...]

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:59:25 +0000

Simon,

thanks for sharing this information! (I edited slightly your comment to fix the direct download links)

If you do not mind, I’ll write “Instructions on installing libmp3lame-enabled ffmpeg on shared linux hosting” (mostly citing you), which will link back to your comment as original source.

Also, I’ll provide properly named and already unarchived binaries to simplify the instructions.

Thanks again!

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:31:12 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this! I spent something like 20 hours during the last 4 days to get ffmpeg working smoothly on my shared server. And this place seems to be the only place on the internet, which addressed the problem I was dealing with.

So basically what I did:

* Download the compiled ffmpeg with libmp3lame on this blog (called ffmpeg.with.lame, ffmpeg.with.lame)
* Rename the file to “ffmpeg” (no extension) and upload to a directory on your server, in my example /home/myusername/

* Download the libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 on this blog (libmp3lameso00.rar) and unrar.

* Rename the unarchived file to libmp3lame.so.0 and upload to the same directory as you placed ffmpeg in

* Create a php file with the following code (remember to change the paths to where you uploaded):
exec(“export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/myusername/”);
echo passthru(“/home/myusername/ffmpeg -formats”)

Now you should see a list of formats that ffmpeg supports, and if you find “EA libmp3lame” somewhere in the output, it means you can now Encode Audio in libmp3lame! But it didn’t work for me: In my case, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a protected variable in PHP (you can check for this by searching for the “safe_mode_protected_env_vars” value in phpinfo). The workaround here can be to write your commands to a file from php, chmod the file to 0775, and run the file through EXEC. In this way, PHP is not changing the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but telling the server to run a file, which tells the server to change it. Weird, huh, but it works at least on my server. Now, good luck!

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:44:30 +0000

I updated the post with the binary of libmp3lame.so which I have on the system, where I compiled those ffmpeg’s I offer for download.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:21:01 +0000

i can get ffmpeg to work, but there’s abosolutely no sound on any movies! Tyler, or anyone else, if you made the libmp3lame.so workaround work, please post links to the files you used, which were working!

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:00:13 +0000

Nixan,
both the link and one of the solutions are in the post text.

By: nixan

nixan — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:40:50 +0000

can u please provide a link that shows a precompiled ffmpeg with lame support urgent please.

By: nixan

nixan — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:38:43 +0000

i too have the same problem,.
libmp3lame.so file is not get loaded.
i am also working in a shared hosting envirnment.
i copied ffmpeg with libmp3lame support and i am getting the error libmp3lame.so is not available.
is there any way to get audio for ffmpeg with libmp3lame support

By: tyler

tyler — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:30:30 +0000

anyone can guide me on how to install lame on a shared host?
i do not have root or ssh access.

i managed to get the older compiled of ffmpeg without lame to work on godaddy

now trying to get it working with lame
thank you