video 6.x-4.5

General remarks

Release 4.5 aims to resolve the most important Amazon S3 issues, without refactoring the entire module. Structural S3, Zencoder and FFmpeg issues have to wait until later releases.

When you intend to use ffmpeg to transcode videos, make sure your ffmpeg installation handles all the file formats before installing the module. Linux distributions using precompiled binaries, such as Ubuntu, usually do not provide the best compile options and it is advised to compile ffmpeg yourself.

The following guides will help you to get a good ffmpeg installation:

• Ubuntu: ffmpeg compilation guide
• Ubuntu: guide to enhance your ffmpeg installation using precompiled packages
• Gentoo: make sure to setup the right USE flags before installing
• Windows: Windows packages

Backwards incompatible changes since 6.x-4.4:

None

Bugfixes since 6.x-4.4:

1. #1160696 by Jorrit: Fixed errors when upgrading to schema version 6405.
2. #1039392 by davepratt: Fix thumbnail size submitted to Zencoder
3. #1231446 by Jorrit: Fix Amazon S3 module trying to upload a file to Amazon S3 while the Drupal file system is used.
4. #1064388 by Jorrit: Fixed error caused by applying Zencoder permissions when creating an Amazon S3 bucket.
5. #1224026 by Jorrit: Fix bucket names with uppercase characters from generating an error on the Filesystem settings tab.
6. #914086 by Jorrit: Allow numbers in Amazon S3 bucket names.

Enhancements since 6.x-4.4:

1. #1033144 by Jorrit: Removed access check from Zencoder post back URL (is is no longer necessary to assign the zencoder postback permission)
2. #906262 by Jorrit: Remove debug file information from video_file_delete()
3. Clean up Amazon S3 file system administration screen to make sure the required fields are present.
4. #1044156 by Jorrit: make the additional vertical space added to Flowplayer configurable to accommodate custom control bars and overlay control bars.

New features since 6.x-4.4:

None

Documentation changes since 6.x-4.4:

None

Other changes since 6.x-4.4:

1. Fixed two notices in the Video FTP widget.
2. Fixed some typos in the ffmpeg settings screen.

Known errors

None