Need Step By Step Tutorial For FFMPEG Hardcoded Watermark

[zelda180]

Hi,

Great your FFmpeg version is the same as mine so far we are on the right page. Lets start with the first question...

1. Is ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php different ?

FFmpeg and FFmpeg-php are separate software however FFmpeg-php dose rely on the php software and FFmpeg video library to function. VShare uses FFmpeg-php to create thumbnail images from movies. More info is at http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/

2. For thumbnails I have three options, I chose ffmpeg.
Should i select ffmpeg-php ?

I personal use menplayer because some say it gives better results. It dose not really matter witch one you choose you can always switch the settings and recreate the thumb nails in the admin section.

3. As per my understanding,
The only line i have to replace with the code u gave is:
$cmd_all = $cmd_mencoder;
Right ?

Yes just replace the code with the one I gave you. If you want to just past the video_conversion.php code and I will past the new code.

4. Most of the videos uploaded on my site are .FLV

Please let us know the changes to be done in the vShare script.

Just to let you know I am using a heavily modified version of vShare 2.8 how ever this should work on vShare 2.7, I don't see why not.

You would need to edit 2 files

• /include/settings/video_conversion.php
• /include/functions_upload.php

Add this code to the end of video_conversion.php

$convert_flv = $cmd_all; 

The easy way for the functions_upload.php file would be if you were to upload the file as an attachment and I will upload the changes, or you can change the coding. Just find the following code below ( it is past the middle of the page )

if ($flv_metadata != 'none' && $file_extn == 'flv') 

and replace the $file_extn == 'flv' with a non video extention like txt. It should look like this.

if ($flv_metadata != 'none' && $file_extn == 'txt') 

Again I am using this code from vShare 2.8 so it may be better if you upload the video_conversion.php file. I hope this helps.

~zelda180~
www.80TOONS.com

[vetty]

The easy way for the functions_upload.php file would be if you were to upload the file as an attachment and I will upload the changes, or you can change the coding. Just find the following code below ( it is past the middle of the page )

Thank you very much @zelda180

background transparency must be the same size as the converted videos EG. 320x240 --> My Player setting is 600x500 --> But i have made a watermark 300x240 !

Every thing went smooth, except i couldn't find the above said code in my functions_upload.php as I'm using vShare 2.7

I have uploaded the required file for version 2.7.

Thanks again.

[bplex]

Just a couple of notes:

Great your FFmpeg version is the same as mine so far we are on the right page. Lets start with the first question...

ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php do not necessarily follow the same version numbers. Most hosts install ffmpeg from SVN which does not have a version number at all. Generally speaking, if your ffmpeg was built after 2008, it does not have vhook.

I personal use menplayer because some say it gives better results.

This used to be true for a few file types (specifically WMV and FLV files). However, this is no longer the case. I would argue that ffmpeg actually gives you better still thumbs than does mencoder. Today, the only real thing that mencoder has over ffmpeg is speed (mencoder can generate files faster than ffmpeg). But, with that speed comes considerable quality loss, which is why I prefer to use ffmpeg for all conversions altogether.

[zelda180]

I would like to first thank bplex for your input, a lot of your previous posts has helped me out when I was having trouble with this script. So thanks again.

As for the functions_upload.php file. I have uploaded the new file and I did test it and it converted the .flv file with the watermark with no issues. I have delete the code below

**REMEMBER TO BACKUP YOUR FILES**

        
        if ($file_extn == 'flv' || $file_extn == 'mp4')
        {
            $log_text = "<h2>MOVING UPLOADED FLV: $video_src => $video_flv</h2>";
            write_log($log_text, $log_file_name, $debug, 'html');
            
            if (! copy($video_src, $video_flv))
            {
                $log_text = 'ERROR: moving uploaded file failed';
                write_log($log_text, $log_file_name, $debug, 'html');
            }
            
            if ($file_extn == 'flv')
            {
                if (get_config('enable_flvtool') == 1)
                {
                    $cmd_flvtool = $config['flvtool'] . ' -U ' . $video_flv;
                    $tmp = exec($cmd_flvtool, $exec_result);
                    $log_text = "<h2>Running flvtool2: $cmd_flvtool</h2>";
                    write_log($log_text, $log_file_name, $debug, 'html');
                }
            }
        }
        else

This tells vshare to skip the encoding process for .flv files and only insert the meta data in to the .flv file. Now vShare wil convert all .flv files and add the watermark to all uploaded videos.

Please let me know if this did or did not work. Thanks

[vetty]

Thank you zelda180,

I have uploaded the file and made the necessary changes.

/home/YOUR_USERNAME/public_html/include/settings/flvid.log 2>&1 "; 

I don't have a file named flvid.log include settings.
The only files inside are upload.php, video_conversion.php and watermark_flvideo.png
I have changed YOUR_USERNAME in TWO instances of the code given (ie., cpanel username)

After uploading a video, It said uploaded successfully.
Previously it used to give a message as:



This time it was different:- It gave as, pl refer image.

Below is the result:



Admin Panel:



Edit Video:


Uploaded videos was not published on the site.Where i went wrong ???

[zelda180]

It sounds like there is something wrong with your video_conversion.php file. That is also why you recived the "uploaded successfully" message. Can you copy and past the /include/settings/video_conversion.php code or upload the file so that I can check.

Also....

1. What dose the status say in your Process Queue in your admin panel?

2. Did you add the code below at the end of your video_conversion.php file?

$convert_flv = $cmd_all;

3. The /include/settings/flvid.log file is a more detail conversion log that is created during the video conversion and for some reason it is not being created.


This is my video_conversion.php file code

<?php

//ffmpegflv - ffmpeg codec 11-2-10 converts to .flv With Watermark
$cmd_ffmpegflv = "$config[ffmpeg] -i '$video_src' -s 320x240 -f flv -b 600k -acodec libfaac -ab 16k -vf 'movie=0:png:/home/YOUR CPANEL NAME/public_html/include/settings/watermark_flvideo.png [wm];[in][wm] overlay=1:0:0 [out]' $video_flv > /home/YOUR CPANEL NAME/public_html/include/settings/flvid.log 2>&1 ";

$cmd_all = $cmd_ffmpegflv;

$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;
$convert_flv = $cmd_all;

[vetty]

Sure i will do it right away.