Web Video Editor

JS / PHP script - GUI for FFmpeg (and Mencoder)

created: 09/29/2014
latest update: 09/29/2014
by: Andycoder
email: andchir@gmail.com

JS / PHP script online video editor, GUI for FFmpeg (or Mencoder). Allows you to cut the video into pieces and combine them. Convert video formats: FLV, MP4, WEBM, OGV. ВPossibility of fast cutting video fragments without transcode.

Fast (instant) cutting video into pieces without transcode.
Ability to combine pieces of video.
For video are used server applications: FFmpeg, Mencoder (optional), MP4Box / gpac (optional), MKVMerge (optional).
Convert video formats: FLV, MP4, WEBM, OGV.
Showing the progress of conversion percentage.
Three HTML5 player to choose from.
Upload video 3 ways: file, link, from Youtube.
Simple configuration (in file).
Multilingual support (made translations into English and Russian).
Nice interface and adaptive layout (Bootstrap 3.2).
Open and clean source code.

Required:

Linux server (in Windows likely will work too, but not tested)
PHP 5.3+
Web server Apache or Nginx
FFmpeg 1.2+

Not required (optional):

Mencoder
MP4Box (gpac)
MKVMerge

Install server software (instructions below).
Upload content of the archive videoeditor to the server (for example, in a folder videoeditor/).
Set permissions 777 for folders: input/, output/, tmp/.
Open your browser to the folder where the uploaded files. For example: http://[website address]/videoeditor/.
Open in a text editor the file config.php and configure (the file has comments).
Finish.

For work is required only FFmpeg, other applications is optional, if for some reason are not satisfied with FFmpeg.
For example, FFmpeg precisely cuts the video at specified locations, but at the beginning of the video clip will stop the video stream. Othet tools is cut video better, but not exactly at the specified time locations (keyframe).

Installing FFmpeg

Developer website: http://ffmpeg.org/

Install FFmpeg recommended by this manual: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu
Need to install any additional applications that are listed in this manual.

Attention!
It is strongly recommended to install all applications in a folder /usr/bin/ and /usr/ffmpeg_build/.
To do this in the instructions you need to replace all "$HOME" to "/usr". For install open command line (terminal).
Example:

mkdir ~/ffmpeg_sources
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
tar xjvf ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2
cd ffmpeg
PATH="$PATH:/usr/bin" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/ffmpeg_build/lib/pkgconfig" ./configure \
  --prefix="/usr/ffmpeg_build" \
  --extra-cflags="-I/usr/ffmpeg_build/include" \
  --extra-ldflags="-L/usr/ffmpeg_build/lib" \
  --bindir="/usr/bin" \
  --enable-gpl \
  --enable-libass \
  --enable-libfdk-aac \
  --enable-libfreetype \
  --enable-libmp3lame \
  --enable-libopus \
  --enable-libtheora \
  --enable-libvorbis \
  --enable-libvpx \
  --enable-libx264 \
  --enable-nonfree \
  --enable-x11grab
PATH="$PATH:/usr/bin" make
sudo make install
make distclean
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