PHP的FFmpeg导致内部服务器错误

Question

I have a PHP script that calls exec() to convert video files using ffmpeg. The script works fine with smaller files, but larger files, usually around 20MB, produce a 500 Internal Server Error after the conversion has run for about 45 seconds.

The max_execution_time is set to 600 seconds (10 minutes) and the max post and upload sizes are set to 1000 MB. The server is Unix based and is not running in safe mode.

Although the issue only happens with larger sizes, I'm not even sure it's a file size issue. The script will pass with a 12.6MB MOV file but will fail with an 11MB MP4 file.

Below is the exec() line from my script:

exec('ffmpeg -y -i '.escapeshellarg($uploadFile).' -vcodec libx264 -ab 128k -ac 2 -b 640k -g 300 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -maxrate 10M -bufsize 10M -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -level 30 '.$convertFile);

Thanks!

Answer 1

I've experienced similar issues with PHP and timeouts using mod_fcgid and Apache. mod_fcgid seems to have an issue with scripts that run a long time, and no matter the amount of changing the timeout values I still couldn't get it to play nice all of the time.

Some options I found to solve this:

1. Don't use a PHP script - use PHP CLI and a cron job
2. Don't use mod_fcgid on the site you are using to encode, use a CGI wrapper or even mod_php

I'm editing this as I've found a very useful set of links which have solved my problem:

http://profiles.ysn.com/supportforum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=283&start=15#p1300

http://www.virtualmin.com/node/19879

I added:

<IfModule !mod_fastcgi.c>
    AddHandler fcgid-script fcg fcgi fpl
    IdleScanInterval 10800
    BusyScanInterval 10800
    ZombieScanInterval 60
</IfModule>

into my fcgid.conf file and

IPCConnectTimeout 10800
IdleTimeout 10800
ProcessLifeTime 10800
BusyTimeout 10800

into my httpd.conf in the relevant <VirtualHost>, restarted apache and the timeouts have stopped.