after install, flvideo is 0 bytes

[d3van]

When we upload a video, the filesize of video in /flvideo is 0 bytes. Obviously nothing plays when we click the video thumbnails to try and play the video... I have uploaded a .flv video and it plays correctly, so something must be wrong with convertor? ffmpeg is showing in phpinfo.php...

Any suggestions? Thx

[admin]

It seems problem with the ffmpeg or mencoder, do you have the correct path in config.php ? What is site url ?

[d3van]

Our site is internal and not live on the internet yet...

Here is the contents of config.php

<?

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_WARNING);
session_start();

$db_host = "localhost";
$db_user = "vshare";
$db_pass = "vshare";
$db_name = "vshare";

$config = array();

$config['ffmpeg'] = "/usr/bin/ffmpeg";
$config['mplayer'] = "/usr/local/bin/mplayer";
$config['mencoder'] = "/usr/local/bin/mencoder";
$config['flvtool'] = "/usr/bin/flvtool2";
$config['basedir'] = "/var/www/html/pro";
$config['baseurl'] = "http://ae/pro";


include("vshare.php");
?>

I checked the locations of the tools and all are correct. I am manually able to use ffmpeg to convert to .flv video via command line, and I can use mplayer to play videos. I am unsure of the correct syntax of mencoder, so I have not tested it to see if it converts properly. All files above are in the path, and if i type mencoder it executes and asks for input file etc...

EDIT: I figured out the command syntax for mencoder and it worked from command line as well...

I appreciate more assistance, thanks again.

[admin]

Enable debug in admin area, upload a video, then check the templates_c/debug.txt

Check if the convert command in that works on command line.

[d3van]

[root@sta840 mplayer]# ffmpeg -i /var/www/html/pro/video/9.avi -acodec mp3 -ar 22050 -ab 32 -f flv /var/www/html/pro/flvideo/9.flv

FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libogg --enable-libvorbis --disable-mmx --enable-shared
libavutil version: 49.4.0
libavcodec version: 51.40.4
libavformat version: 51.12.1
built on May 15 2007 11:52:47, gcc: 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)
Input #0, avi, from '/var/www/html/pro/video/9.avi':
Duration: 00:00:19.5, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2210 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj422p, 320x240, 15.00 fps(r)
Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_u8, 11024 Hz, mono, 88 kb/s
File '/var/www/html/pro/flvideo/9.flv' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
Output #0, flv, to '/var/www/html/pro/flvideo/9.flv':
Stream #0.0: Video: flv, yuv420p, 320x240, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 15.00 fps(c)
Stream #0.1: Audio: 0x0000, 22050 Hz, mono, 0 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
[flv @ 0x453928]removing common factors from framerate
Unsupported codec for output stream #0.1


Codec problem?

[admin]

yes, you need to reinstall ffmpeg with more codec support.

Install with following configuration support most formats

./configure --enable-shared --enable-xvid --enable-libvorbis --enable-libogg --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-liba52

[zeffer]

Enable debug in admin is this able to be turned off once the server is live? Or should it be left on?

[admin]

You can keep it on if you wish, it won't make any difference in performance.