From 8041073c8d74e5d24e3b9f10143f3e4bd04db2de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heshan Wanigasooriya Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:17:29 +0000 Subject: removing old files and commenting new file field and other files to the vidoe module page. --- plugins/video_ffmpeg_helper/README.txt | 47 ---------------------------------- 1 file changed, 47 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 plugins/video_ffmpeg_helper/README.txt (limited to 'plugins/video_ffmpeg_helper/README.txt') diff --git a/plugins/video_ffmpeg_helper/README.txt b/plugins/video_ffmpeg_helper/README.txt deleted file mode 100644 index fb63547..0000000 --- a/plugins/video_ffmpeg_helper/README.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ -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. - -- cgit v1.2.3