Am 27.07.19 um 22:19 schrieb Peter B.: > Thanks for your replies! :) > > On 27/07/2019 21:18, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.putenv.php >> but how does it matter anyways? > > Sure I found putenv before, but as I said: It felt a bit unnecessarily > complicated ("overkill"), so I thought I'd better ask.
what is complicated when it comes to environment variables? what do you gain from millions of options compare dto follow standards? >> you are supposed to use things like >> https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php when you execute >> binaries like ffmpeg > > I know. That's what I'm doing. > btw: The PHP article in the wiki only mentions "shell_exec()" - and no > means of evaluating any exitcode to see if the FFmpeg call was > successful or not. So I found "exec()" to actually be the better option > (for me?) > > So I'm now doing the following and it seems to work quite well: > > 1) Add "2>$logfile" at the end of the command to redirect stderr to file. > 2) Use "exec($command, $output, $exitcode)" - and then check if > ($exitcode != 0). > > Seems to work quite well! that's how unix systems are supposd to work, no matter if the cvaller is PHP or whatever binary or scripting language _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
