Transcode not working

The transcode plugin isn't working for me. I downloaded and am using the latest updates from supersidr's site. The weird thing is that I uploaded via web browser a couple of small WMV clips and it did work, converted to FLV and play fine in the Flash player. Then I tried importing a bunch of larger WMV files from local server and then transcoded them manually using 'Edit Movie' ----> Transcode - i get the progress bar and then it just redirects to a complete blank white page. If i set it to 'transcode' upon request, the Flash player loads with the thumbnail of the video but I click play and nothing happens.

Weird how it did work on small WMV clips i uploaded via my browser off my hard drive and now that doesn't even work when I try to repeat the same thing.

thanks for any advice

hi, yes i downloaded the ffmpeg module and transcode module from your site and replaced the old ffmpeg folder with yours.

i've managed to get it to transcode FLV's with small WMV files, small as in about 1 MB, 4MB WMV's no luck - and the WMV's i wanted to import into Gallery2 are much larger, 50MB and some larger. I am using the upload using local server and selecting to transcode later, which I do, it's doing something, it produces the Flash player with the thumbnail in the Flash player but the FLV doesn't play, I click the Play button, the screen goes white and rapidly the blue progress bar goes across the player . No matter how long I wait. Where in Gallery2's directory do transcoded FLV's get stored?

looking in the source of the HTML page of the transcoded FLV

<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
var so = new SWFObject("http://www.mysite.com/modules/flashvideo/lib/G2flv.swf", "IFid2", "100%", "100%", "9.0.28.0", "ffffff");
so.addParam("flashVars","flvUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mysite.com%2Fd%2F92806-1%2F5_chunk_1.flv%3Fg2_GALLERYSID%3Dda60c6a6f55df8292038981d9964d913&Width=0&Height=0&title=5_chunk_1&thumbUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mysite.com%2Fd%2F92804-2%2F5_chunk_1.jpg%3Fg2_GALLERYSID%3Dda60c6a6f55df8292038981d9964d913&langDownload=Download&langFullscreen=Fullscreen&langNormal=Normal&langPlay=Play&langPause=Pause&langForward=Forward&langRewind=Rewind&langMute=Mute&langUnmute=Unmute&langShare=Share");
so.useExpressInstall("http://www.mysite.com/modules/flashvideo/lib/expressinstall.swf");
so.addParam("allowScriptAccess","always");
so.addParam("allowFullScreen","true");
so.write("soContent");
// ]]>
</script>

thanks

Are you on a shared host?
Can you transcode from commandline?

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if you have shell access to your server try executing:
ffmpeg -y -i full_path_to_input.wmv -r 23.98 -ab 96k -ar 44100 -b 1200k full_path_to_output.flv

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i tried that and it works fine from shell

yes the resulting video is playable and it's one of the large videos that fails when I try to transcode from within Gallery2.

output from ffmpeg? where would I see that?

i have my web host increase the upload size and time limits on the advice of a friend - didn't help. i still can't upload a WMV video from my hard drive or my web server to Gallery2 and then use Transcode to get an FLV version.

hi, i had a programmer try to troubleshoot the problem with Transcode today, he gave it a good shot but he couldn't figure out the problem. He also installed Gallery2 on his own server, downloaded your files off Flashyourweb and had the same problems I'm having on my server.

he left me two debug files http://www.bratcash.com/debug2.html and http://www.bratcash.com/debug3.html

my server is running php4 but he checked out the documentation here and didn't think that was the problem.

thanks

doh - sorry

http://www.bratcash.com/debug2.htm http://www.bratcash.com/debug3.htm

any suggestions on what I should do? should I get my hosting company to roll back to ffmpeg 0.4? if so, is there anything I need to do myself with Gallery2?

With the right access to your server and G2 I'm sure I could get this working.

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http://www.flashyourweb.com/profiles.php?uid=3

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