[MEncoder-users] Running MEncoder from a PHP script

[Pasquale Federico Zema]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Phil Ehrens wrote:

> that it was determined that the problem was to do with permissions 
> and/or io?
> 
> Trent E DiRenna wrote:
>
> > When I run this from the command line (in the directory where the 
> > Jpegs are located), it works fine and creates the AVI file.

Hi, 
 it looks a Unix permission problem to me, too, rather than an mencoder 
fault ...

Trent, did you use the same Unix user when you tried the command line?

About mencoder failing silently, have you checked the log of your web 
server (error_log for Apache)? IIRC, PHP scripts only send the stdout to 
the web browser, while the stderr is trapped by the web server and 
(usually) reported to the error log file.

Hope this can help!

 Cheers
 Federico