Comments on: Video Comments Movable Type Plugin

By: Mike Flynn

Mike Flynn — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:57:18 +0000

Thats the #1 problem with this plugin, FFMPEG is a bit of a finicky tart. In the perl plugin file, I assumed that your server would be configured with ffmepg and that it would be in your path so you can just type “ffmpeg …..” and it would work. Possibly ffmpeg IS installed on your server, but its not included in your path. If that is the case, you need to find out where your ffmpeg binary file is located and modify the line

system(“ffmpeg -i $TMP_DIR/$id -ab 64 -ar 22050 -s 320×240 -b 200 -y -v 1 $FINAL_DIR/$id.flv”);

to show where ffmpeg is installed

system(“/path/to/ffmpeg -i $TMP_DIR/$id -ab 64 -ar 22050 -s 320×240 -b 200 -y -v 1 $FINAL_DIR/$id.flv”);

You will also need to do this on the next line where I call ffmpeg again to get the file information.

Let me know if that helps.

By: Mike Flynn

Mike Flynn — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:57:18 +0000

system("ffmpeg -i $TMP_DIR/$id -ab 64 -ar 22050 -s 320x240 -b 200 -y -v 1 $FINAL_DIR/$id.flv");

to show where ffmpeg is installed

system("/path/to/ffmpeg -i $TMP_DIR/$id -ab 64 -ar 22050 -s 320x240 -b 200 -y -v 1 $FINAL_DIR/$id.flv");

You will also need to do this on the next line where I call ffmpeg again to get the file information.

Let me know if that helps.

By: andy

andy — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:05:43 +0000

I'm trying to get this to work on a new vlog I'm setting up for my wife: http://www.edwebproject.org/diaper/ I think I've got everything installed properly, but when I click the post button, nothing happens. Any guesses? I installed the plugin and flash player, and my web server is supposed to have ffmpeg on it somewhere...

By: Mike Flynn

Mike Flynn — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:10:00 +0000

So how did it work for you Mr. Test?

By: test

test — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:11:11 +0000

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By: Mike Flynn

Mike Flynn — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:10:00 +0000

So how did it work for you Mr. Test?

By: test

test — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:11:11 +0000

test

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:35:23 +0000

Sorry. Something must have changed at Dreamhost. The file is there, but it shows a 404. You take the .pl extension off the file and what do you know? …the 404 goes away. Odd don’t you think?

Anyway the link is updated, you will just have to add the .pl extension yourself. I imagine the pilgrims had to do the same thing back in their day.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:35:23 +0000

Sorry. Something must have changed at Dreamhost. The file is there, but it shows a 404. You take the .pl extension off the file and what do you know? …the 404 goes away. Odd don’t you think?

Anyway the link is updated, you will just have to add the .pl extension yourself. I imagine the pilgrims had to do the same thing back in their day.

By: andy

andy — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:54:47 +0000

I just tried downloading the plugin but I get a file not found error. Has it moved?