Stephdotnet on "[Plugin: Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator] FFMPEG as php extension"

Hi everyone,

I am a webdeveloper and have a WP site with a lot of videos on a shared hosting (o2switch).

Of course they don't allow me to install ffmpeg as a standalone application, bug I can activate FFMPEG as a PHP extension (it's activated, and GD too).

The problem is that it doesn't seem to work. (Let's say it doesn't work). I think that the plugin doesn't find the FFMPEG in the repertory /usr/local/bin/ ... I guess it is because the extension is not installed in standalone.

My questions is the following : I just want to generate a thumbnail for my 3000 videos, without Libav or FFMPEG (standlone) so how can i do that since i have FFMPEG-PHP5 and the generation works with "browser" technology (when i do from the media with the solo thumbnail generator)?

Meanwhile i'll start scripting something working with ffmpeg_php5 extension.

Thanks for your time.

Have a good day.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/