mencoder not working? use FFMPEG INSTEAD! :)

Hello:

This is not a problem with the script, but rather my setup. When I upload an mpg (one I successfully uploaded to your vshare demo site) everything SEEMS to go fine. The mpeg is uploaded, there's a thumbnail for the file, but no flv file is actually placed in the flvideo folder. The uploaded movie itself appears in the video folder, but no corresponding FLV file - although the data for the file is there, including run time...

flvtool2 seems to be installed properly and working,
so does ffmpeg, and ffmpeg-php http://TheWall.net/phpinfo.php

FLV files that are uploaded work fine.

Here's an example of one that is not working:
http://www.thewall.net/view/2/test/

There's a thumbnail, and it THINKS the flv file is there, but it's not.

IF anyone has any ideas what I should be looking at, I'd really appreciate it.

It seems there is problem with mencoder installation on your server, check if your server can run the conversion command with out errors

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/usr/local/bin/mencoder /home/thewall_net/public_html/video/7.mpg -o /home/thewall_net/public_html/flvideo/7.flv -of lavf -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=500:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:l ast_pred=3 -srate 22050 -lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_fram es

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You can ask the server admin to run the command on SSH prompt or try running it from PHP script as described in

http://forums.buyscripts.in/viewtopic.php?t=351

Here's what I tried while logged in as root (copied from debug.txt)

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/usr/local/bin/mencoder /home/thewall_net/public_html/video/9.mpg -o /home/thewall_net/public_html/flvideo/9.flv -of lavf -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=500:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:last_pred=3 -srate 22050 -lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames

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Here's the error I got:

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MPlayer was compiled without libmp3lame support.
-lameopts is not an MEncoder option

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Meanwhile, if I locate libmp3lame.so:

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[root@clicker1 lame-3.97]# locate libmp3lame.so
/usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
/usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0
/usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
/usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so

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AND when I ./configure mplayer, I see this:

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Checking for libmp3lame (for mencoder) ... yes
Checking for mencoder ... yes

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Real head scratcher.....

Well, the problem with the above, was that I did not configure libmp3lame as shared.

I uninstalled both programs, then recompiled libmp3lame with shared enabled, made and installed, did same with mplayer (for mencoder)

Now it does something more than it did before, but not much.

I get a zero-byte flv file.

Here's the command line feedback:

[root@clicker1 flvtool2-1.0.6]# /usr/local/bin/mencoder /home/thewall_net/public_html/video/12.wmv -o /home/thewall_net/public_html/flvideo/12.flv -of lavf -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=500:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:l ast_pred=3 -srate 22050 -lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_fram es
MEncoder dev-SVN-r23322-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x88443
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
VIDEO: [WMV3] 320x240 24bpp 1000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:6 fourcc:0x33564D57 size:320x240 fps:1000.00 ftime:=0.0010
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 88.1 kbit/6.24% (ratio: 11015->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
================================================== ========================
** MUXER_LAVF ************************************************** ***************
You have certified that your video stream does not contain B frames.
REMEMBER: MEncoder's libavformat muxing is presently broken and will generate
INCORRECT files in the presence of B frames. Moreover, due to bugs MPlayer
will play these INCORRECT files as if nothing were wrong!
************************************************** *****************************
OK, exit
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
DMO dll supports VO Optimizations 0 1
DMO dll might use previous sample when requested
GetOutput r=0x0 size:230400 align:1
StreamCount r=0x0 1 1
Decoder supports the following formats: YV12 YUY2 UYVY YVYU RGB8 RGB555 RGB565 RGB24 RGB32
Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x1b)
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
videocodec: libavcodec (320x240 fourcc=31564c46 [FLV1])
[VE_LAVC] High quality encoding selected (non-realtime)!
Selected video codec: [wmv9dmo] vfm: dmo (Windows Media Video 9 DMO)
================================================== ========================

Exiting...
[root@clicker1 flvtool2-1.0.6]#


It looks to me like it thinks it did the job...

if any ideas, would be thankful.
I've tried this with wmv, mov, and mpg, same results. I get a thumbnail of any of them, but a zero-byte flv file.

thanks for any help that might find it's way here :)

I don't know why it is not working for you. You can ask in mplayer mailing list to find a solution or use ffmpeg for converting video.

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Originally Posted by admin

I don't know why it is not working for you. You can ask in mplayer mailing list to find a solution or use ffmpeg for converting video.

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Yah, that's a good idea. I did sign up on their mailing list and will send in the question.

How would I tell the script to use ffmepg?

in include/settings/video_conversion.php

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<?php

$cmd_ffmpeg = "$config[ffmpeg] -i $video_src -acodec mp3 -ar 22050 -ab 32 -f flv $video_flv";
$cmd_mencoder = "$config[mencoder] $video_src -o $video_flv -of lavf -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=500:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:last_pred=3 -srate 22050 -lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames";

$cmd_all = $cmd_mencoder;


$convert_3gp = $cmd_all;
$convert_mp4 = $cmd_all;
$convert_mov = $cmd_all;
$convert_asf = $cmd_all;
$convert_mpg = $cmd_all;
$convert_avi = $cmd_all;
$convert_mpeg = $cmd_all;
$convert_wmv = $cmd_all;
$convert_rm = $cmd_all;
$convert_dat = $cmd_all;

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Find

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$cmd_all = $cmd_mencoder;

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Replace with

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$cmd_all = $cmd_ffmpeg;

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Originally Posted by admin

in include/settings/video_conversion.php

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<?php

$cmd_ffmpeg = "$config[ffmpeg] -i $video_src -acodec mp3 -ar 22050 -ab 32 -f flv $video_flv";
$cmd_mencoder = "$config[mencoder] $video_src -o $video_flv -of lavf -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=500:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:last_pred=3 -srate 22050 -lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames";

$cmd_all = $cmd_mencoder;


$convert_3gp = $cmd_all;
$convert_mp4 = $cmd_all;
$convert_mov = $cmd_all;
$convert_asf = $cmd_all;
$convert_mpg = $cmd_all;
$convert_avi = $cmd_all;
$convert_mpeg = $cmd_all;
$convert_wmv = $cmd_all;
$convert_rm = $cmd_all;
$convert_dat = $cmd_all;

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Find

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$cmd_all = $cmd_mencoder;

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Replace with

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$cmd_all = $cmd_ffmpeg;

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Admin, which is better? $cmd_mencoder or $cmd_ffmpeg

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Originally Posted by admin

in include/settings/video_conversion.php
Find

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$cmd_all = $cmd_mencoder;

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Replace with

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$cmd_all = $cmd_ffmpeg;

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WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That works! Thank you SO much admin... appreciate you looking at this!

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Originally Posted by spun2u

Admin, which is better? $cmd_mencoder or $cmd_ffmpeg

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Spun2u, I've heard that mencoder does better, but this sure works fine for me. Some day I'll get mencoder working again, but this works just dandy.

Thanks again admin.

mencoder support more video formats than ffmpeg. It is told mencoder take less system resource to do the video conversion.

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Originally Posted by admin

mencoder support more video formats than ffmpeg. It is told mencoder take less system resource to do the video conversion.

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Thanks for the info.