I currently have Drupal installed on a separate server than where my ffmpeg is installed. We are using Cirtex as the host for all of our videos, talked to them a bit and was told that the location to the ffmpeg is "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg or /usr/bin/ffmpeg". Tried both in FFMPEG Wrapper and Media Mover gives me these 2 errors saying:

* Sorry, could not find FFmpeg, please go to: FFmpeg Wrapper
* Sorry, could not find FFmpeg, please go to: FFmpeg Wrapper

All the other settings in Media Mover are set right, connects to the ftp server and such, I can even pull up a list of my movie files, it just can't can't seem to find the installed mmpeg on our other server. Dug around on some faqs on FFMPEG Wrapper and couldn't find much about this error.

Another note: Whenever I go to to a Test on the FFPEG Wrapper, the "Output Format" drop down list is empty, same for when I go to FFMPEG Converterm, it's "Output" list brings up nothing.

I thought it was possible to have two servers, one for Drupal and the other to put the video files for streaming and that holds the FFMPEG converter itself. Is it not possible to tell FFPEG Wrapper to point to the external server installation of MMPEG? Just wondering, since I'll have to change my strategy on getting a 'Youtube drupal' site up.

Thanks, and sorry if the details are not the greatest.

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K-Max’s picture

K-Max commented
Category: task » support

I think you need to have your drupal installation on the same server as ffmpeg. So, first, I would check to make sure you have ffmpeg installed on the same machine as your drupal installation.

If you're trying to have drupal run ffmpeg on the external server, somehow, you would have to configure the server that has your drupal installation to access the other server through a network path or something. I'm not familiar with how network maps work in linux.

Not sure if the approach is what you're looking for because it sounds like you want ffmpeg to run on the external server and not on the same computer as your drupal installation. (ie: You want the external computer to fire the command instead of the computer than runs your site)

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oldjtate commented

Yeah, I just wasn't sure if there was a way to point FFmpeg Wrapper to the installed FFmpeg on the other server. We only did this since the server we currently have Drupal installed on just isn't cut out for streaming videos, so we got a host on Cirtex for now. I have been asking them some questions over this, but they just keep telling me the same thing, and that's where FFmpeg is located on their server...not on a way to point to it from another server.

I really would have thought many other people would have been in the exact same boat, or would have tried this idea out. Really shocked I can't find anything out there or someone doing this. (could just be missing it)

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arthurf commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Well, here is one way you could do it:

1) use media mover to move your files over to the server where you have FFmpeg installed.
2) once your files are processed, put them in a specific directory
3) have media mover pull those files back in. The trick is going to be passing the node data, but there are ways that it could be done. I would consider working on this because there are larger use cases for this kind of thing.

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oldjtate commented

Hmm, currently Media Mover is set to this:

Harvest: Pull the file from anything uploaded from the 'Video' Content type.
Process: Convert the file to whatever. (where my list won't show, my current problem)
Storage: FTP the files over to Cirtex
Complete: Create a node and/or add to the 'xsps playlist'.

Now on what you are saying, I should just dump them via FTP with Media Mover, but how would I trigger the conversation process (or even have the option to choice what file I want to convert it too)?

Another idea, just thinking about, is what if I installed Drupal on the Cirtex server and create an automatic conversion configuration that just pulls any vieo file(s) found in whatever folder, convert them, and save them (perhaps to a different folder if I wanted too). Then, on the server where my current Drupal installation is found on, have a Media Mover profile set up to simply harvest those files, and organize them in whatever way I wish.

I originally thought of that, just seemed like a like of work, figured there might be an easier way.