Do you know what might the problem with shared libraries Godaddy shared hosting? The binary of ffmpeg i have works fine, but i need AAC support now. here’s my code:


$ffmpeg = "/absolute/path/to/ffmpeg"; // this is a folder that contains ffmpeg (binary) and libfaac.so and libfaad.so, all are chmod'd to 755
$bash = "#!/bin/bash\n";
$bash .= "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ffmpeg/:$ffmpeg 2>&1;\n";
$bash .= "exec $ffmpeg/ffmpeg.faad -i '$url' -ab {$bitrate}k ".PATH."$output 2>&1";
file_put_contents("temporarybashscript.sh",$bash);
chmod("temporarybashscript.sh",0755);
passthru("./temporarybashscript.sh", $status);


and it returns the error message:
/absolute/path/to/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.faad: error while loading shared libraries: libfaac.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

any ideas?

How do i enable ffplay to preview the conversions after e before runs?

You gave me hope for a while, until I realized this:
(Just)Removing the options that generate these kinds of errors makes the FFmpeg incomplete.
“FAAD test failed” is the result from doing that.

When I use FFmpeg from Dolphin 6.1.6 I have no problems recording video (but without sound), so it cannot be a permission issue.
It’s because of missing audio codecs.
I also cannot uploading files. They are send, but no files are stored / saved, because of missing codecs.

The exact command line from Dolphin 7 is in the same post as you mention (there are no errors) and is resulting in the problems I started out with in the first place.
It actually doesn’t say that there are no errors.

Dolphin is community site software and you can find all related information in the first post of that thread.

Thanks for your help, but I hope someone else will be able to assist me, so I can finally solve this issue.

Greetings,

J

when configure script says

Unknown option “–enable-libogg”

then most likely this option is indeed unknown to (not supported by) that script.

Just remove any options generating these messages.

As for the

FAAD test failed

- identify what that abbreviation stands for
- try to find [+ compile + install, if needed] missing packages
- try ./configure once again

Further down in that thread, this comment actually shows ffmpeg working (there are no errors). If no files are created – that might be the problem with the permissions of the target directory.

To figure out if that ffmpeg from aforementioned comment actually works, you need to find the exact command line executed by Dolphin (I have no clue what that software is for), and try/”debug” it in the terminal window.

That is all I can help you with for now.

I was attempting to compile the latest FFmpeg version for Boonex Dolphin 7.0 community on a ClearOS 5.1 SP1 (based on Red Hat 4.1/ CentOS 5.4), but I was unsuccessful, because of missing dependencies.
I have also tried to use the latest version of ClearOS, but this was not working either.
At the moment, the only FFmpeg version that partly works is the one from the previous Dolphin 6.1.6, but I am looking for one that works 100%.

Since I am completely new to this, I don’t know what information you need so here is a link to my latest attempts:
http://www.clearfoundation.com/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,232/catid,40/func,view/id,7263/limit,10/limitstart,90/#8834

Can you help me, or guide me in the right direction please … ?!?

Thanks,

J.

I was able to test the no lame version on hostgator. Not sure how kindly they will take to it, but it works. I am using it for Jomsocial.

~k

I might compile such a version as soon as time permits – and as soon as I do set up a compilation pipeline, which does everything [semi-]automatically.

If you are motivated enough to write a really simple bash script which would a) check-out current ffmpeg from svn and then b) compile and rename several targets with different compilation options – then I will run it and post resulting binaries here.

thanks a lot, your binaries are a lifesaver!

I’m not using them for shared hosting but for a Thecus N5200Pro NAS. Your ffmpeg compile is perfect for Gallery2,
but once I had it installed I wanted to transcode some video files to h264.

Do you think you could compile a version with lame, libfaac, libfaad AND libx264? That would be awesome!

Cheers

you can compile vhook-enabled version of ffmpeg yourself, if you need it that badly.

Unfortunately, I am not aware of any video-watermarking tools; I didn’t even know it’s possible with ffmpeg

But is there any good alternative for applying watermarks or logo’s on our video?

after looking into it, I might actually enable vhook for all further compilations of ffmpeg.

New binaries will be added here in the near future.

Also, I might be setting up compilation pipeline, probably even providing daily svn builds of several different ffmpeg configuration targets.

Thanks alot!

I can compile lame/faad/faac binary, but that will have to wait until I’m back to Linux I expect to be able to put up here the new version late this evening (I’m in GMT+2, for reference).

Could you send me the shell script you use at GoDaddy? (via contact form)

It looks like we are creating the “full-featured binary ffmpeg package for shared hostings” here I’m thinking on packaging everything into a single distribution – bundled with that library-support shell script and all the *.so files required by the package-included ffmpeg. That’s pretty simple, but still requires time

Update: faad-version is now available, together with libfaad.so.

EA libfaac
EA libmp3lame

Should there be a D in there for libfaac for it to decode AAC codec?

Thanks!

I just tried it out and it works with non-aac files just fine. However it outputs a 0KB file if I run an AAC file through it. I am using GoDaddy shared hosting if that helps. And I had to create a shell script (as suggested) to initiate the local LD_LIBRARY_PATH which loads in the libmp3lame and libfaac libraries. That seems to be working fine. Any ideas? Thanks again, I feel like I am so close to getting this working.