Hello,

My shared hosting provider (hostgator) does not allow me to use ffmpeg. And FFMPEG-install-script-for-shared-host script failed. I don't want to transcode video files, I just need to have thumbnails. Is there any alternative to ffmpeg for thumbnail creation?

Thanks

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#9 codecs.txt19.49 KBcoolman7

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You can manually upload a thumbnail. Go to the Video field settings and in thumbnail settings just select manual upload thumbnails.

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Jorrit commented

Why would you want to use the video module in this case? You could just use a file field and an image field.

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coolman7 commented

I just want to: Users of website should upload a video file, and website should automatically generate a thumbnail. Users should not deal with generating thumbnails. And I need Video module to playing streaming video on website.

By the way I downloaded some pre-build static library ffmpeg binaries, but it does not work as I expected. For example it generate only one thumbnail instead of 5 on some videos, and does not generate any thumbnail on some videos.

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Jorrit commented

The Drupal error log should provide some information. It could be that the prebuilt binary doesn't have all the necessary codecs.

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coolman7 commented

Log message:

Error generating thumbnail for video test.mp4: PHPVideoToolkit error: Execute error. Output for file "/var/www/sites/default/files/videos/original/test.mp4" was not found. No images were generated..

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coolman7 commented

Which codecs are necessary?

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coolman7 commented

I executed ffmpeg command from hosting company's server, following command:

ffmpeg -i movie.mp4 -ss 00:00:14.435 -vframes 1 thumb.jpg

I get this error message:
Error while opening decoder for input stream #0:0

This is the full output:

/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by ffmpeg)
ffmpeg version 1.1.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
built on Mar 5 2013 09:08:56 with gcc 4.6 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-yasm
libavutil 52. 13.100 / 52. 13.100
libavcodec 54. 86.100 / 54. 86.100
libavformat 54. 59.106 / 54. 59.106
libavdevice 54. 3.102 / 54. 3.102
libavfilter 3. 32.100 / 3. 32.100
libswscale 2. 1.103 / 2. 1.103
libswresample 0. 17.102 / 0. 17.102
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'movie.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : mp42
minor_version : 0
compatible_brands: isommp42
creation_time : 2013-02-27 22:08:18
Duration: 00:00:55.43, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 680 kb/s
Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 640x360, 582 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 60k tbn, 59.94 tbc
Metadata:
creation_time : 1970-01-01 00:00:00
handler_name : VideoHandler
Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 95 kb/s
Metadata:
creation_time : 2013-02-27 22:08:18
handler_name : IsoMedia File Produced by Google, 5-11-2011
Output #0, image2, to 'thumb.jpg':
Metadata:
major_brand : mp42
minor_version : 0
compatible_brands: isommp42
Stream #0:0(und): Video: mjpeg, yuvj420p, 640x360, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 29.97 tbc
Metadata:
creation_time : 1970-01-01 00:00:00
handler_name : VideoHandler
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (h264 -> mjpeg)
Error while opening decoder for input stream #0:0

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Jorrit commented

Could you attach the output of ffmpeg -codecs here?

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new codecs.txt19.49 KB

I attached the output of ffmpeg -codecs.

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coolman7 commented

I believe there is some kind of restriction or missing library file in hosting server. Because I can execute the same command successfully in my personal computer running ubuntu linux. But same command failed at hosting server.

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Jorrit commented

There is h264 support in the codecs you posted, so I don't know what the exact error is.

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ghb0104 commented

This version can not generate video thumbnails automatically. However, when i use the 2.8 version, everything works well.

Is there anyone get the same problem?

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Jorrit commented

Are you getting any errors?

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coolman7 commented

I believe my hosting provider (hostgator) restricted any ffmpeg usage on shared hosting.

I don't need transcoding video files. I only need thumbnails. Is there any alternative to ffmpeg just for thumbnail creation.

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ghb0104 commented

i got the following error message:

Error generating thumbnail for video Sean_Belka.mp4: PHPVideoToolkit error: Execute error. Output for file "C:\acquia-drupal\Sites\drupal-7.19\sites\ffocdev\files\videos\original\Sean_Belka_2.mp4" was not found. No images were generated..

In fact, the file "C:\acquia-drupal\Sites\drupal-7.19\sites\ffocdev\files\videos\original\Sean_Belka_2.mp4" exists.

The drupal core i used is 7.19

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ghb0104 commented

Hi Jorrit,

i got the following error message:

Error generating thumbnail for video Sean_Belka.mp4: PHPVideoToolkit error: Execute error. Output for file "C:\acquia-drupal\Sites\drupal-7.19\sites\ffocdev\files\videos\original\Sean_Belka_2.mp4" was not found. No images were generated..

In fact, the file "C:\acquia-drupal\Sites\drupal-7.19\sites\ffocdev\files\videos\original\Sean_Belka_2.mp4" exists.

The drupal core i used is 7.19

Thanks

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Jorrit commented

I see you are using Windows. There may be an incompatibility between the module and Windows. I don't have a PHP development environment with Windows, so I can't help you there.

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Status: Active » Closed (cannot reproduce)