ffmpeg Progress Bar – Encoding Percentage in PHP

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Okay, I’ve found what I needed – and hopefully this helps someone else as well!

First and foremost, you want to output the ffmpeg data to a text file on the server. 

ffmpeg -i path/to/input.mov -vcodec videocodec -acodec audiocodec path/to/output.flv 1> block.txt 2>&1

So, the ffmpeg output is block.txt. Now in PHP, let’s do this!

$content = @file_get_contents('../block.txt');

if($content){
    //get duration of source
    preg_match("/Duration: (.*?), start:/", $content, $matches);

    $rawDuration = $matches[1];

    //rawDuration is in 00:00:00.00 format. This converts it to seconds.
    $ar = array_reverse(explode(":", $rawDuration));
    $duration = floatval($ar[0]);
    if (!empty($ar[1])) $duration += intval($ar[1]) * 60;
    if (!empty($ar[2])) $duration += intval($ar[2]) * 60 * 60;

    //get the time in the file that is already encoded
    preg_match_all("/time=(.*?) bitrate/", $content, $matches);

    $rawTime = array_pop($matches);

    //this is needed if there is more than one match
    if (is_array($rawTime)){$rawTime = array_pop($rawTime);}

    //rawTime is in 00:00:00.00 format. This converts it to seconds.
    $ar = array_reverse(explode(":", $rawTime));
    $time = floatval($ar[0]);
    if (!empty($ar[1])) $time += intval($ar[1]) * 60;
    if (!empty($ar[2])) $time += intval($ar[2]) * 60 * 60;

    //calculate the progress
    $progress = round(($time/$duration) * 100);

    echo "Duration: " . $duration . "<br>";
    echo "Current Time: " . $time . "<br>";
    echo "Progress: " . $progress . "%";

}

This outputs the percentage of time left.

You can have this as the only piece of text echoed out to a page, and from another page you can perform an AJAX request using jQuery to grab this piece of text and output it into a div, for example, to update on your page every 10 seconds. 🙂

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