Php-ffmpeg: Your FFProbe version is too old and does not support `-show_streams` option, please upgrade.

[laravelish]

Hello i am using this package https://github.com/spatie/laravel-medialibrary wich uses your package to generate a thumbnail but i get this error

Your FFProbe version is too old and does not support-show_streamsoption, please upgrade.

i can run ffprobe -i tumblr_oizgy3X4fP1vigkjr_480.mp4 -show_streams throug command line without any error

[jens1o]

Could you please verify that there are enough permissions for the user hosting php to execute those files?

[laravelish]

Hi, how do i do that ?

i ran ps aux | grep -E '[p]hp|[n]ginx' | grep -v root | head -1 | cut -d\ -f1
the ouput is admin

[jens1o]

Often it is the www-data user, and this user(group) needs access to all input files, the binaries itself(ffmpeg, ffprobe..) and the output folders.

[laravelish]

@jens1o this is my php-fpm conf

# php7.2-fpm - The PHP FastCGI Process Manager

description "The PHP 7.2 FastCGI Process Manager"
author "Ondřej Surý <[email protected]>"

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]

# you can uncomment this with recent upstart
# reload signal USR2

pre-start script
mkdir -p /run/php
chmod 0755 /run/php
chown www-data:www-data /run/php
end script

respawn
exec /usr/sbin/php-fpm7.2 --nodaemonize --fpm-config /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php-fpm.conf

i changed chown user to admin and root but its the same error again

[jens1o]

Could you just allow the folders to be accessed by www-data? I do not use linux as a daily-driver, yet. I'm sorry. But this issue is more likely a permission problem...

[laravelish]

@jens1o i get mkdir(): Permission denied if use www-data

[laravelish]

i dont think it has to do with permission

because admin:admin has root access

it can read write delete edit

[jens1o]

Unfortunately, then, I don't know why that should fail. Do you allow proc_open in your php.ini files?

[laravelish]

only these are disabled

disable_functions = pcntl_alarm,pcntl_fork,pcntl_waitpid,pcntl_wait,pcntl_wifexited,pcntl_wifstopped,pcntl_wifsignaled,pcntl_wifcontinued,pcntl_wexitstatus,pcntl_wtermsig,pcntl_wstopsig,pcntl_signal,pcntl_signal_get_handler,pcntl_signal_dispatch,pcntl_get_last_error,pcntl_strerror,pcntl_sigprocmask,pcntl_sigwaitinfo,pcntl_sigtimedwait,pcntl_exec,pcntl_getpriority,pcntl_setpriority,pcntl_async_signals,

[laravelish]

if i disable proc_open i get this error

The Process class relies on proc_open, which is not available on your PHP installation.

so it is enabled by default

[laravelish]

@jens1o i'm a idiot !
i added the ffprobe.binaries path to look for ffmpeg instead of ffprobe ! thats why i get the error

so i changed
'ffprobe.binaries' => '/usr/bin/ffmpeg',
to
'ffprobe.binaries' => '/usr/bin/ffprobe',

now everything works perfectly

if anyone else get similar error they should check their binary paths !

[jens1o]

Puuhh.. Okay, thanks. I'll remember that.

[4unkur]

@laravelish Thanks for sharing dude ) Helped a lot

[marwan2]

@laravelish Where did you change it, because I tried it here but not working

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