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-FFMPEG Video.module helper
-==========================
-
-See : http://video.heidisoft.com/docs/users-guide-26
-
-This helper module facilitates uploading new videos using the video module. It
-features a batch processing queue for videos to be transcoded and automatic
-thumbnail generation.
-
-IMPORTANT: the ffmpeg helper currently only works on unix based environment. It currently doesn't support Windows based servers.
-
-Install instructions
---------------------
-
-1. Activate the video_ffmpeg_helper module
-2. Setup it's advanced options to meet your needs
-3. Move (or symlink) video_render.php and video_scheduler.php into your Drupal root
-4. Edit the first "Configuration" code lines of those files to meet your needs (IMPORTANT: path to ffmpeg executable on your server)
-5. Check permissions of the files and folders (/tmp/video and files/* must be writable by the webserver or the user executling the cron job)
-6. You now have two options to execute the video_scheduler.php script:
-
- 6.1 (default) Enable the execution of video_scheduler.php using standard drupal cron.
- GMM: 07/23/2009 Note: ** Do not use this method if your Apache server is running with suPHP **
- As of this writing, suPHP will cause the Drupal cron to loop infinitely and no video
- will be rendered. In this case crontab should be used instead of Drupal cron!
-
- 6.2 Schedule the execution of video_scheduler.php using unix cron
-
- The crontab should look something like this:
-
- # m h dom mon dow user command
- */20 * * * * www-data cd /absolute/path/to/drupal/ ; php video_scheduler.php http://www.example.com/path_to_drupal
-
- This will execute the video_scheduler every 20 minutes.
-
- Note that the video_scheduler doesn't produce any output and cannot be called
- from the web. It will, however, put some information in the watchdog.
-
-
-
-Troubleshooting
-------------------------
-
-Configuring and installing ffmpeg in a web server environment might be pretty difficult. In order to help you troubleshoot the transcoding process the ffmpeg helper puts debugging informations on the drupal logs. I strongly suggest to have a look at them if you are experiencing problems with transcoding.
-
-The ffmpeg puts in the drupal logs the commands it was trying to execute. You might try to rerun them on a command shell in order understand what went wrong.
-