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!

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!

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