Possible prelim code fix for ffmpeg on Windows

OK, so I know that G3 pretty much doesn't work at all with videos on Windows, and possibly on some Linux boxes. I've come up with a short code snippet that is a kind of workaround for this. And it doesn't involve hard coding any paths! Here's the code I came up with:

if (php_uname("s") != "Windows NT"){
  if (function_exists("exec")){
    $ffmpeg_path = exec("which ffmpeg");
  }
}  else  {
  $ffmpeg_path = str_replace("\\", "/", dirname(__FILE__)."\\ffmpeg.exe");
}

This code replaces lines 149-151 of movie.php. Latest revision as of Jul 12 @ 14:10 PST.

This does have a little caveat if you took a look at the code; it requires you to put ffmpeg.exe in the same directory of movie.php (modules/gallery/helpers). The binary can be downloaded from http://roundblog.net/ffmpeg.exe. This executable is the most reliable one I could find, as it comes from the FFConverter project (last updated on SourceForge Sun Jun 28 2009 08:02). This works flawlessly on my Windows machine (Apache 2.2.11 (from apache.org), PHP 5.2.10/5.3.0, and MySQL 5.1.36) and will successfully process the supported G3 movie file types, create thumbnails, and detect size. Have fun!