Hello, I am very new to php. I recently setup php on my mac and I am trying to setup ffmpeg-php to convert various videos to flv or other formats as desired. I used this tutorial FFmpeg Mac Installation and I got ffmpeg to work using the terminal, however, when I try to encode a movie using php I get an error. In my apache error_log file it says permission denied next to the flv file (shown below). FFmpeg version 0.6, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers built on Dec 30 2010 08:36:24 with gcc 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1) configuration: --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared --disable-mmx --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-libfaad --enable-zlib --enable-libvorbis --enable-libfaac --enable-nonfree libavutil 50.15. 1 / 50.15. 1 libavcodec 52.72. 2 / 52.72. 2 libavformat 52.64. 2 / 52.64. 2 libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0 libswscale 0.11. 0 / 0.11. 0 Seems stream 1 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 1200.00 (1200/1) - 30.00 (30/1) Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/Users/myApple/Sites/AdHere/test.mov': Metadata: major_brand : qt minor_version : 537199360 compatible_brands: qt Duration: 00:00:02.04, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1109 kb/s Stream #0.0(eng): Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 97 kb/s Stream #0.1(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 640x480, 1027 kb/s, 30.15 fps, 30 tbr, 600 tbn, 1200 tbc /Users/myApple/Sites/AdHere/movteststuff.flv: Permission denied I have no idea what the problem is. I am using the following php code: <?php extension_loaded('ffmpeg') or die('Error in loading ffmpeg'); $ffmpegInstance = new ffmpeg_movie('test.AVI'); echo "getDuration: " . $ffmpegInstance->getDuration() . "<br>getFrameCount: " . $ffmpegInstance->getFrameCount() . "<br>getFrameRate: " . $ffmpegInstance->getFrameRate() . "<br>getFilename: " . $ffmpegInstance->getFilename() . "<br>getComment: " . $ffmpegInstance->getComment() . "<br>getTitle: " . $ffmpegInstance->getTitle() . "<br>getAuthor: " . $ffmpegInstance->getAuthor() . "<br>getCopyright: " . $ffmpegInstance->getCopyright() . "<br>getArtist: " . $ffmpegInstance->getArtist() . "<br>getGenre: " . $ffmpegInstance->getGenre() . "<br>getTrackNumber: " . $ffmpegInstance->getTrackNumber() . "<br>getYear: " . $ffmpegInstance->getYear() . "<br>getFrameHeight: " . $ffmpegInstance->getFrameHeight() . "<br>getFrameWidth: " . $ffmpegInstance->getFrameWidth() . "<br>getPixelFormat: " . $ffmpegInstance->getPixelFormat() . "<br>getBitRate: " . $ffmpegInstance->getBitRate() . "<br>getVideoBitRate: " . $ffmpegInstance->getVideoBitRate() . "<br>getAudioBitRate: " . $ffmpegInstance->getAudioBitRate() . "<br>getAudioSampleRate: " . $ffmpegInstance->getAudioSampleRate() . "<br>getVideoCodec: " . $ffmpegInstance->getVideoCodec() . "<br>getAudioCodec: " . $ffmpegInstance->getAudioCodec() . "<br>getAudioChannels: " . $ffmpegInstance->getAudioChannels() . "<br>hasAudio: " . $ffmpegInstance->hasAudio(); exec('ffmpeg -i /Users/myApple/Sites/AdHere/test.mov /Users/myApple/Sites/AdHere/movteststuff.flv'); ?> I am able to see various parameters like filename, frameheight, framewidth, which leads me to believe that ffmpeg-php is kind of working, but maybe I am just doing something wrong in the exec() command. Anyone have any ideas. I have been struggling with setting up ffmpeg for quite some time now. Thanks! -Jon