By iLoser on

I tried to find a Forum topic in which to post this, and this seems to be the closest.

Anyway, I'm trying to convert a video upload to FLV. No offense intended for the devloper of FFMpeg Wrapper, but the documentation wasn't helpful at all. I have Media Mover installed, so I can upload movie files (via a field created by CCK), but it plays the original video format in an external program.

So, how in the world do I use ffmpeg wrapper to convert an uploaded video into FLV?

Thank you.

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vm commented

is the ffmpeg binary compiled on your server?
ffmpeg_wrapper is only a helper module, without ffmpeg compiled and available on the server you can't convert video.

*note: ffmpeg binaries are not part of drupal

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iLoser commented

I think so...I checked aptitude and it says ffmpeg is installed.

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vm commented

ok step in the right direction.
are the settings set correctly in the modules, pointing to your ffmpeg binary location?

note:
In my reading of the project page and the readme.txt file of the ffmpeg_wrapper.module
it looks to me that its mainly a custom form builder, are you building a form?

you mention that you want to convert video and my reading of the mediamover documentation is that ffmpeg_wrapper is an optional module and therefore isn't needed to convert the file.

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iLoser commented

Yes. The path is /usr/bin/ffmpeg, which is where ffmpeg is located on my system.

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WorldFallz commented

Unless you need all the bells and whistles of media mover, you might want to try the simpler flashvideo module. I find it works well.