Re: system command runs application, but application doesn't work correctly

On Jan 16, 2008 7:56 PM, Apple7777 <applepro7777@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to run mencoder command line utility to encode videos. > > When I use these two command in terminal (through SSH), everything works fine. > But when I run them from PHP script with system command, it doesn't work. [snip] Try replacing system() with die() and letting it print out the information full command string. That may give you an idea of a variable that's either incorrect or undefined. If you copy and paste it and run the command from the command line and it works, then it may be permissions issues. One part of the snipped content that I noticed kept repeating is the following (and actually ending with this line): 'VDecoder init failed :( Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html' Did you follow the advice and read that document? Beyond that, it's a question that should probably instead be asked on a mencoder mailing list, since PHP's system() function is working correctly, but apparently isn't getting the information it needs to pass stuff back-and-forth with the system. -- </Dan> Daniel P. Brown Senior Unix Geek and #1 Rated "Year's Coolest Guy" By Self Since Nineteen-Seventy-[mumble].