Its probably a permissions issue with the device then as you
suspected. you may also have to give www-data permission to write to
/var/www for testing which is not recommended, but it that works you
can first 'cd' to a directory where www-data does have permission to
create a directory -or- see if there is a command line option to
change the location that the command uses for temporary files. the
error logs should shed some lite on what is tripping it up.
exec ('cd /tmp/');
exec("cvlc dvb:// :dvb-adapter=1 :no-video --sout ...
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote:
> It finds cvlc fine, but there are other considerations to take in account
> because of the way it is being launched. I have gotten 1 version of the
> script to run, using ./dev./video0 as the source, but not the dvb adapter.
> One caveat I ran into by running it as www-data is that vlc expects to
> create a .local folder in /var/www. Maybe a question for the PHP group.
>
>
> On 2/14/2012 4:29 PM, Tom Penney wrote:
>>
>> it could also be that the php can not find the command "cvlc". when
>> you are on a command line there are environmental variables that
>> define where to look for commands
>>
>> from the command line type "which cvlc" this should return a full path
>> to the command. something like
>> "/user/bin/something/cvlc"
>>
>> then in your script replace the command with the full path.
>>
>> exec("/user/bin/something/cvlc dvb:// :dvb-adapter=1 :no-video --sout
>> '#standard{access=http,mux=asf,dst=10.10.1.53:8181}'");
>>
>>
>>
>>
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