Hello,

I'm currently creating a site on an intranet and am having issues with the path to the ffmpeg binary. I do not control the server but have access to the folders related to the site. The operating system I'm working in is Windows, and the server is Linux. Not sure of which to have I have both the ffmpeg.exe binary for windows and the ffmpeg binary for Linux.

When I upload a flash video and run cron I get the following messages

<ul>
<li>Conversion failed.</li>
</li>Command: /files/corpTV/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.exe - y -i "/data/web/www.corpsite.com/htdocs/files/tour.flv" -vframes 1 -ss "00:00:10" -an -vcodec mjpeg -f rawvideo -s ""80x60"" "/data/web/www.corpsite.com/htdocs/files/corpTV//tour_33.jpg"</li>
<li> FlashVideo successfully created: tour_33.flv</li>
<li>Cron ran successfully</li>
</ul>

I know the video is being created successfully because it already an flv.

My FFMPEG files are stored in the files folder for my corpTV subsite which is;
files/corpTV/FFMPEG (windows files)
files/corpTV/FFMPEG/FFMPEG-Binary (linux files from ffmpeg site)

Should I be putting the path in "files/corpTV/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.exe" like I have been or should it be the "/data/web" path its getting from somewhere??

Thank-you kindly for any and all help you can provide, if there is more information I can provide please don't hesitate to ask.

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PMatwyuk’s picture

PMatwyuk commented

Sorry forgot that the "< code>" tag will remove html formating.

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PMatwyuk commented

Just to add, I have infact confirmed the path is "/data/web/www.corpsite.com/htdocs/files/corpTV/ffmpeg/ffmpeg"

However I'm still getting a failed conversion, is there an issue with the path settings in the code perhaps?

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aidil commented

Hi Makawak, were you able to solve this?

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attheshow commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Looks like your ffmpeg installation is successfully converting the video to flv, but NOT successfully creating the jpg thumbnail file that is used in previews of the video. Try running the command from the command line. If it doesn't work from the command line, it's not going to work when the module tries it either.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.