FFMPEG

what is ffmpeg? or what the hell ffmpeg is ??, i was wandering with the same question but now i think i can atleast give you what it exactly is :p
FFMPEG’s official website is http://ffmpeg.org/ and its the best thing for Videos Conversion..

What is this thing ?

ffmpeg is a SOFTWARE that will let you convert your videos from any video format to many video formats :p ie from avi to FLV MP4 etc…

How To Install it or How can we use it?

i cant teach you FFMPEG installation here as i am not as good with server as my ser admin, you better buy our server setup , anyways, i can give you some tips, i am sharing em with you as i faced them few years back

1. FFMPEG on linux and Windows OS are different
2. on linux its path looks like /usr/bin/ffmpeg
3. on windows its path looks like C:/somefolder/ffmpeg.EXE
4. yea , on linux, it does not have any EXTENSION :p

Well you should clear your mind about FFMPEG its is not an EXTRA ORDINARY thing (but of course a very healthy and useful tool) all you need is SERVER and SERVER ADMIN who can install it..

May be this post will help you installing FFMPEG on linux , for windows, simply download it from here

1. As i told you , FFMPEG is a software, but the problem is there is no such ghost whome we can tell , open, click on bla button, browse bla file and convert it…what we simply do is , pass commands to the server that looks like (-i , -o, -p [sometimes like smileys :p ]) and tells the software to execute the command and so they follow
2. on linux, we pass commands like /usr/path/to/ffmpeg -i file.flv -flag do_something
3. on widnows, we pass commands like C:/ffmpeg.exe (same as above)

How To Get FFMPEG Path

1. You first ask your host, weather FFMPEG is installed or not
2. on linux, it can be either /usr/bin/ffmpeg or /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
3. Usually, our script can find where these binaries (softwares) are , what you simple have to is , click on “Tool Box” Menu and select “Server Module Check”, there you can see paths of FFMPEG and other modules too
4. It works fine on linux, cant say about windows as its commands and permissions are different

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