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Laravel can't load FFProbe?

I'm using the PHP-FFMpeg repository to do some video work inside my Laravel app, but I'm having some trouble getting it set up. Once I have installed the PHP-FFMpeg repo, I will try to instantiate FFMpeg

:

$ffmpeg = \FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create();

However, this doesn't work. In response, I get an ErrorException that simply states:

Unable to load FFProbe

It doesn't make sense to me, as when I start FFMpeg

and ffprobe

from my Mac terminal, I see they are installed. This is clearly a path / resolution issue, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Any ideas?

This is all hosted in a MAMP project running on localhost.

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$ffmpeg = \FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create([
    'ffmpeg.binaries'  => '/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg',
    'ffprobe.binaries' => '/usr/local/bin/ffprobe' 
]);

ffmpeg installation path.



this is what @limonte means and it works for me.

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Specifying paths to binaries should help:



$ffmpeg = \FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create([
    'ffmpeg.binaries'  => exec('which ffmpeg'),
    'ffprobe.binaries' => exec('which ffprobe')
]);
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I spent a lot of time researching this and I am posting this answer to anyone experiencing a similar issue on Windows. The library removes the backslash

(D:\binaries\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe)

to use forward slashes instead of

(D:/binaries/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.exe)

it will work for widows. Hope it helps

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For Mac OS:

'ffmpeg.binaries'  => '/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg',
'ffprobe.binaries' => '/usr/local/bin/ffprobe'

For Windows:

'ffmpeg.binaries'  => 'C:/FFmpeg/bin/ffmpeg.exe',
'ffprobe.binaries' => 'C:/FFmpeg/bin/ffprobe.exe'

For Ubantu:

'ffmpeg.binaries' => '/usr/bin/ffmpeg',   
'ffprobe.binaries' => '/usr/bin/ffprobe'
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