Posted by civicpixel on March 19, 2009 at 9:22pm
Before I forget to post this, these are the instructions I've been following to setup FFmpeg on Ubuntu:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095
These instructions work off the latest SVN copy of ffmpeg, which is a necessity if you want to be able to get any support (first response to any ffmpeg troubleshooting question will be "are you using the latest copy from SVN?")
There are definitely better ways to compile it, but this is a great start -- so anyone with the expertise feel free to suggest improvements.
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Yes I am using the latest copy from SVN - external transcoding
Just a quick little correction for people like me who don't check version instructions.
If you are using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) then the instructions are located here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6963607&postcount=360. There are some additional steps that you need to take in order to install the programs that assist with your compiling.
PCM is setting up their external transcode server (Donated AMD 64bit screamer) this week and we're setting up the FFmpeg wrapper settings to locate the FFmpeg install from a different location.
1) Installed Latest Ubuntu LTS release (Hardy Heron)
2) Installed all universe, multiverse, good, bad and ugly codecs I could find through synamptic
3) Followed the FFMPEG SVN install instructions from the above link
4) Shared the FFMPEG build from the home folder of the Ubuntu server (right click, share, all users)
5) Changed FFmpeg path: from FFMPEG configuration page from /usr/bin/ffmpeg to \Pcmffmpeg\ffmpeg while leaving path to the FFmpeg vhook libraries as /usr/local/lib/vhook
6) Received following error: The vhook directory was not found on the path you specified. Maybe try a different path?
7) Could not save settings with vhook path not found – deleted and saved.
8) Once saved FFmpeg wrapper was happy but there was no “About FFmpeg installation” dropdown – seems like there needs to be either a symbolic link made on the webserver or the FFMPEG installation was not complete or mis-built by me.
9) Reverted FFmpeg Wrapper settings to those listed above but it still would not take the vhook path so I had to leave it blank.
Next steps are to give our Pcmffmpeg box a static IP, map it to our web server with a symbolic link and try to alias the path for FFmpeg into the web server and finally change the FFmpeg wrapper settings to find the external server.
Fingers crossed.
Thanks Pete PO
I was missing the part you specified in step 6 and 7. You saved my time.
You posted this long time back right?now what do you think is the best way to integrate videos in drupal ?
I am planning to stream live videos also later.
An automated install for 8.10
For those who like me wasted days on trying to install ffmpeg on LTS 8.10 there is a brilliant script that compiles and installs all. It can be found @http://code.google.com/p/x264-ffmpeg-up-to-date/