Setting cronjob for batch video processing

[SportsGamingTV.com]

or is this my cpanel username?

Yes

[karlmay]

I've creaed the cron -- but in the "username" portion of the script:
/usr/bin/php -q /home/username/public_html/cron.php

Am I to put the username of the vhsare user I want to post the cids to.. or is this my cpanel username? Also,,, when it sends "where do you want emails sent" , and you have "video" -- Am I to put "video" there as u have or my real email address?

FYI, if you put your email address, you need to know that it will spam your email box, in 2 days i had almost 800 emails from the cron job :roll:

[admin]

FYI, if you put your email address, you need to know that it will spam your email box, in 2 days i had almost 800 emails from the cron job :roll:

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php -q /path/to/cron.php > /dev/null &

The last part > /dev/null & will disable any email.

If you removed that part, it will send you one email for every 5 minutes.

[admin]

There are several (all coming from youtube)
some examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVXUMHinJR4

Bugfix for youtube import available at

http://forums.buyscripts.in/viewtopic.php?t=1423

You need to apply this bug fix only if you downloded vshare before 27 Aug 2007 and having problem with youtube video import.

[devarioj]

How do I set up cron jobs in PLESK?

[admin]

For Plesk, use

*/5 * * * * cd /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.extn/httpdocs;  /usr/bin/php -q cron.php  > /dev/null &

[devarioj]

For Plesk, use

*/5 * * * * cd /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.extn/httpdocs;  /usr/bin/php -q cron.php  > /dev/null &

I could not find cron jobs in plesk...can you give some info as to where it could be found

[sydawn]

Time for me to return the favour:

- Login to your panel

- select domains

- choose the domain you require

- goto the hosting section

- there, IF ACTIVATED, you should see CRONTAB (has an alarm clock icon if you have latest pleask)

- Select the user you wish to put the cronjob under

- select the "schedule a task for (username)"

- put in the parameters :wink:

[nightmage]

I am trying to use the cron to convert about 200 vids. It seems that each time the cron is kicked off, it sets 2 of the vids in the process queue to "start download". That is going to take forever!

Is there someway to set it to check if any of the vids have been set to "start download". If they have, then convert them first. If none of them are in the "start download" status, then get more vids...

Shantul.

[admin]

I am trying to use the cron to convert about 200 vids. It seems that each time the cron is kicked off, it sets 2 of the vids in the process queue to "start download". That is going to take forever!

cronjob will do one process at a time.

That is download a video or convert a video and add it to the site.

When it start downloading a video, its status is set to "start download", when finished, it will set to "finish download".

If you need to speed up the process, you need to run cron job more often, by default it run every 5 minutes, if you need you can run it every 1 or 2 minutes. But this will increase server load as processing video need a lot of CPU time and memory.

Is there someway to set it to check if any of the vids have been set to "start download". If they have, then convert them first. If none of them are in the "start download" status, then get more vids...

This is done alternatively, that is if cronjob downloaded a video, next time it will convert a video if a video is available for convert, not not it will start next download.