Good day to all.
I need to send a request to a script and then to execute some commands (basically I need to start ffmpeg when clicking on a link).
I tried this:
exec("ffserver &");
exec("ffmpeg -i pipe.avi output.avi");
exec("mplayer -dumpstream someinput -dumpfile pipe.avi");
and this
shell_exec("ffserver &");
shell_exec("ffmpeg -i pipe.avi output.avi");
shell_exec("mplayer -dumpstream someinput -dumpfile pipe.avi");
In both cases I got timeout. Can any1 help me with this? Thank you.
You could try this, its has been posted by user bahri at bahri dot info as a comment to the PHP manual entry for exec
<?php
function PsExecute($command, $timeout = 60, $sleep = 2) {
// First, execute the process, get the process ID
$pid = PsExec($command);
if( $pid === false )
return false;
$cur = 0;
// Second, loop for $timeout seconds checking if process is running
while( $cur < $timeout ) {
sleep($sleep);
$cur += $sleep;
// If process is no longer running, return true;
echo "\n ---- $cur ------ \n";
if( !PsExists($pid) )
return true; // Process must have exited, success!
}
// If process is still running after timeout, kill the process and return false
PsKill($pid);
return false;
}
function PsExec($commandJob) {
$command = $commandJob.' > /dev/null 2>&1 & echo $!';
exec($command ,$op);
$pid = (int)$op[0];
if($pid!="") return $pid;
return false;
}
function PsExists($pid) {
exec("ps ax | grep $pid 2>&1", $output);
while( list(,$row) = each($output) ) {
$row_array = explode(" ", $row);
$check_pid = $row_array[0];
if($pid == $check_pid) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
function PsKill($pid) {
exec("kill -9 $pid", $output);
}
?>
If this is only a timeout error, try putting set_time_limit(xx); on top of your code. With xx corresponding to the time to wait in seconds.
Putting 0 means no time limit, but it may be endless if your script enters an infinite loop, of if it is waiting a feedback from your encoding command that never arrives...
Try to increase PHP script execution time in your php.ini file or by setting the function set_time_limit
