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• FFMPEG/avconv option -c:a copy

  1 June 2013, by b747fp

  I am converting a bunch of videos from FLV to MP4 (for iphone compatibility) and using AAC codec it kept throwing out "invalid audio bitrate" or similar errors. I tried "-c:a copy" option and it works, but I am wondering if that tells ffmpeg to use the original MP3 codec or just the original audio bitrates/frequencies?

  /usr/bin/avconv -i /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/conversions/34649274.flv -s 640x480 -b 1248k -vcodec libx264 -acodec aac -strict experimental -c:a copy /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/conversions/34649274.mp4

• Building FFMPEG library for iOS6.0 ARMv7 Processor

  15 August 2013, by Jimmy

  WARNING:

  I was just informed by another user that there are some legal issues revolving around using FFMPEG for iOS, leaving the link here http://multinc.com/2009/08/24/compatibility-between-the-iphone-app-store-and-the-lgpl/

  I cleaned up my question a little bit, when I wrote it the first time I was flustered. Now I can be more clear after taking a small break.

  Edit: learned that you have to build for ARMv7, ARMv7s and iOS6.0

  I'm trying to use the FFMPEG library in an XCode 4.5.1 project. And I'm trying to build it for ARMv7. What I'm looking for is the exact process, and some explanation. I understand that this is not a well documented problem. But I know that other pople have had the same problem as me.

  What I have been able to do.

  I have been able to build the library for testing.

  1) I have been able to clone ffmpeg. For beginners this will get you started by creating a directory with the ffmpeg source. (Kudos to the guys who wrote it)

  git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg

  2) I have been able to write a config file that doesn't have any errors. We will go back to this part later. This is the command I attach to ./configure

  ./configure
  —disable-doc
  —disable-ffmpeg
  —disable-ffplay
  —disable-ffserver
  —enable-cross-compile
  —arch=arm
  —target-os=darwin
  —cc=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/llvm-gcc-4.2/bin/arm-apple-darwin10-llvm-gcc-4.2

  —as='gas-preprocessor/gas-preprocessor.pl /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/llvm-gcc-4.2/bin/arm-apple-darwin10-llvm-gcc-4.2'

  —sysroot=/applications/xcode.app/contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS6.0.sdk

  —cpu=cortex-a8
  —extra-ldflags='-arch=armv7 -isysroot /applications/xcode.app/contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS6.0.sdk'
  —enable-pic —disable-bzlib —disable-gpl —disable-shared —enable-static —disable-mmx —disable-debug —disable-neon —extra-cflags='-pipe -Os -gdwarf-2 -isysroot /applications/xcode.app/contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS5.1.sdk
  -m$thumb_opt:-no-thumb -mthumb-interwork'

  These are some things to note.

  • I had to download ( https://github.com/yuvi/gas-preprocessor ) copy the file gas-preprocessor.pl at /usr/local/bin. Set permissions to read write (777)
  • Make sure I'm using the right GCC compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/llvm-gcc-4.2/bin/arm-apple-darwin10-llvm-gcc-4.2
  • Make sure I'm using the right SDK: /applications/xcode.app/contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS6.0.sdk
  • —extra-cflags="-arch armv7" causes: error: unrecognized command line option “-arch”

  Here in lies the problem.

  I can include the library like so

  libavcodec/avcodec.h

  But when I started to write the encoder. I received this warning, and countless errors.

  ignoring file /Users/Jimmy/Development/source.ffmpeg/Library/libavutil.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (armv7s): /Users/Jimmy/Development/source.ffmpeg/Library/libavutil.a

  That means that I didn't build the right binary.

  What I'm looking for is someone whose done it before, to walk all of us through the process of building FFMPEG for iOS6.0 and ARMv7 and the majority of things to look out for. Thanks a ton.

• Creating Thumbnails From Ffmpeg Hangs Php

  30 October 2012, by Piyush Arora

  I have been working on a php webservice, which receives videos(uploaded) from iphone and upload them to Amazon cloudFront. After uploading videos, I need to generate thumbnails for video from the Amazon link generated. I am using ffmpeg with shell_exec command for it. Here is the code for the same:

  public function createThumbnail($userId,$fileUrl,$imageName){
  
      //$imageUrl = 'http://184.168.116.177:81/json_api/json/bin/';
  
      if(!is_dir("images/".$userId)){
  
          mkdir("images/".$userId);
  
      }
  
      // path of installed ffmpeg
  
      $ffmpeg = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .'bin/ffmpeg';
  
      $cmd = "$ffmpeg  -itsoffset -1 -i $fileUrl -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -an -f rawvideo -s 320x240 images/".$userId."/".$imageName;
  
  
  
      shell_exec($cmd);
  
  
  
      return "images/".$userId."/".$imageName;
  
  }

  The above code generates the thumbnail, but script does not execute after shell_exec command. So, there is no response sent to iphone end about the thumbnail link. This function works well video is uploaded from web browser of pc. If I comment, shell_exec command, then response is sent to iphone end, but obviousely image is not created.

  Thanks in advance.