"You must specify an output type" ??

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I have the same error

Ubuntu, drupal6

You need to set the path to ffmpeg in the admin/settings/ffmpeg_wrapper- did you?

of course i did
and i am sure that in the previous version , the same path with the same ffmpeg.exe configuration is all right
so , i think maybe there is something change in this version , so i still use the previous version now

Is there a file that can be transcoded? Can you try the dev version? This does not happen for me, however I do not use windows.

In thinking about it, your codecs are probably cached. If you clear this, you should be ok. In newer versions, this cache is cleared when you go to admin/settings/ffmpeg_wrapper

I have the same problem -- no Output formats to choose from -- using 6.x-1.1-beta1.
Also on Windows, using WAMP (Apache & MySQL).

Is there any information I could provide that could help us troubleshoot this?

Hi-

First clear your caches. Secondly give the dev version a try. Thirdly, can you confirm that the path to the ffmpeg binary is correct? That list is generated from ffmpeg, so it needs to have access to it to generate it.

Hi,

I've cleared my cache (I think -- I've hit all the FFMPEG admin pages, and chosen to clear all the items available under 'Clear private data...' in FF) and downloaded and installed the dev version. I've also tried a different binary compiled for Windows. The paths to the binaries (both on the disk and what I'm using in the UI) are:

E:\Program Files\WinFF\ffmpeg.exe
for a binary obtained here: http://winff.org/html_new/

and

E:\wamp\www\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe
for a binary obtained here: http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/builds/

In addition, I've noticed during this round of testing that an error message appears when I first go to the FFMPEG WRAPPER TEST CONVERSION tab after saving a configuration. The error is:

warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in E:\wamp\www\boost\sites\all\modules\ffmpeg_wrapper\ffmpeg_wrapper.module on line 485.

Of course, I looked at line 485 and it's a listing of array items that store output formats -- which makes sense I guess, given the problem we're seeing. The error message goes away when the page is refreshed, so I don't know if it started showing up with the dev version or I just started noticing it then.

Thank you for your work on this. Please let me know if there's any more information I can provide that would be helpful.

FYI, I have installed devel, and though I haven't used it yet, I'd be happy to try and use it to acquire info that might be helpful troubleshooting this.

This is now working for me. I think the problem was the path and the location of the FFMPEG binary. It seems as though a path like this won't work:

E:\Program Files\WinFF\ffmpeg.exe

I put FFMPEG into the Drupal directory and then referred to it with a relative path --

/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg.exe

I also turned on the devel module and cleared the cache several times -- so that may have done something. In any case, using that path, I now have Output Format options.

One last note -- I got things working, then tried to isolate what I'd done to make it work, rolling things back a bit and trying to retrace steps one at a time. However, I couldn't get the thing to work again until, after much trial and error, I realized that I hadn't included the leading forward slash in the path. So that may be helpful for others -- if you put FFMPEG in the same directory as Drupal, make sure you're using a leading forward slash in your path. (EG, the path should like LIKE THIS:

/ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg.exe

NOT like this: ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg.exe <--won't work.

I'm on CentOS 5.3, and i have the same problem. also it does not accepts vhooks. says it does not exists at the specified path. i checked both ffmpeg and vhook path and i'm sure the paths are correct. I cleard the cache in admin -> performance several times.
I also tried the latest dev version. Any suggestion?

Ok , i found the solution. i check the log file and found hits : file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/bin/ffmpeg) is not within the allowed path(s)

I have fastcgi installed on my server, clearly it says that the folders are no accessible by the user. so i created to symlink to ffmpeg and vhook and it recognized them finally.