op_video 5.x-3.15

The major new feature of this release is MP4 encoding with H.264 video and AAC audio. These codecs have much higher performance than than the old FLV and MP3. This means you can have the same quality for less bandwidth or higher quality for the same bandwidth.

Demo

MP4 encoding is supported both with FFmpeg transcoding on your own server and with the paid transcoding service we offer at openpackage.biz .

This functionality was sponsored by SharkScopers and vertikal.dk .

You can select the MP4 format under 'transcoding parameters' in the video field configuration. You need to have run update.php if upgrading.

For MP4 videos, the user must have Flash 9 or greater to play MP4. OpenPackage Video automatically ensures that a recent enough version is installed.

If you are handling transcoding on your own server using FFmpeg, you need to make sure that your installation of FFmpeg has the required codecs. Once you have upgraded to 5.x-3.15, go to admin/settings/op_video . Important output formats and codecs are now highlighted. Make sure you can output the libfaac audio codec and the libx264 video codec. You also need qt-faststart, which is bundled with FFmpeg. See our FFmpeg documentation for more info.

Of course, if you use our remote transcoding service, you don't have to worry about configuring FFmpeg.

Other improvements:

• increase openpackage.biz transcoding upload timeout to 10mins to increase reliability
• highlight important output formats and codecs on admin/settings/op_video
• better FFmpeg error reporting on admin/settings/op_video
• fix audio bitrate interrogation for latest FFmpeg