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+FFMPEG Video.module helper
+==========================
+
+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 line of those files to meet your needs
+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.
+  
+  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.
+