Unable to load FFProbe driver for FFmpeg

Question

Hi i am trying to install php-ffmpeg.
Can someone guide me or correct me in my steps.

1. I installed the composer on windows and then traversed to my folder i had created to run install ffmpeg cmd

2. After running this command a composer.json, composer.lock file were created along with a vendor folder.

3. Later installed the Shared FFMpeg build for 64bit from here

   http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

and form this folder copied the bin folder to my directory to set the ffmpeg and ffprobe path during create() like this

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

Currently i am getting this error which says :

"Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Alchemy\BinaryDriver\Exception\ExecutableNotFoundException' with message 'Executable not found, proposed : /vendor/bin/' in D:\xampp\htdocs\health\vendor\alchemy\binary-driver\src\Alchemy\BinaryDriver\AbstractBinary.php:160 Stack trace: #0 D:\xampp\htdocs\health\vendor\php-ffmpeg\php-ffmpeg\src\FFMpeg\Driver\FFProbeDriver.php(48): Alchemy\BinaryDriver\AbstractBinary::load('/vendor/bin/', NULL, Object(Alchemy\BinaryDriver\Configuration)) #1 D:\xampp\htdocs\health\vendor\php-ffmpeg\php-ffmpeg\src\FFMpeg\FFProbe.php(207): FFMpeg\Driver\FFProbeDriver::create(Array, NULL) #2 D:\xampp\htdocs\health\vendor\php-ffmpeg\php-ffmpeg\src\FFMpeg\FFMpeg.php(117): FFMpeg\FFProbe::create(Array, NULL, NULL) #3 D:\xampp\htdocs\health\ff.php(6): FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create(Array) #4 {main} Next exception 'FFMpeg\Exception\ExecutableNotFoundException' with message 'Unable to load FFProbe' in D:\xampp\htdocs\health\vendor\php-ffmpeg\php-ffmpeg\src\FFMpeg\Driver\FFProbeDriver.php:50 Stack trace: #0 D:\xampp\htdocs\he in D:\xampp\htdocs\health\vendor\php-ffmpeg\php-ffmpeg\src\FFMpeg\Driver\FFProbeDriver.php on line 50".

So what could i have done wrong or am i missing any steps. Can someone point me to the right direction.

Answer 1

Just in case anyone is experiencing similar issue on windows. The library removes the backslashes

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

so you should use forward slashes instead

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

this will work on widows. Hope this helps