Hi Philip,
Lets see if we can get this worked out so you can get videos to convert on the server. There are a few things that i'd like you to try and if you could try these one at a time so we can see if we can find what the problem is
1. The first thing to do is ask you server administrator what the path is to your FFMPEG i notice that there are two /usr/bin/ffmpeg /usr/share/ffmpeg. Normally is would be /usr/bin/ffmpeg but please double check with your server admin. it looks like there is 2 copies on your server.
2. Can you please make a change to the file /components/com_community/helpers/videos.php
around line 279 please change the build FFMPEg code to this
// Build the ffmpeg command
$config = CFactory::getConfig();
$cmd = array();
$cmd[] = $this->ffmpeg;
$cmd[] = '-y -i ' . $videoIn;
/**
+ * @uses Server must compiled with libx264
+ */
$cmd[] = '-vcodec libx264';
$cmd[] = '-acodec aac -ab 64k'; /* Set a lower bitrate (for example "-ab 64k") */
$cmd[] = '-strict -2';
$cmd[] = '-crf 23';
$cmd[] = '-s ' . $videoSize;
$cmd[] = $config->get('customCommandForVideo');
$cmd[] = $videoFullPath;
The command -ab 64k will slow down the bit rate which can be a problem sometimes.
Once you change this code and confirm the path to FFMPEG upload a video and and run the cron. The easeist way is to run it frontend by adding this to your sites URL
index.php?option=com_community&task=cron
so it would be
http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_community&task=cron
then see if the videos convert.
If it doesn't then the next thing to check, and you may need to ask your server administrator to check for you, is that you are not using a custom php.ini file in your root that is missing the line extension = "ffmpeg.so" some versions do not use this so it may or may not be applicable in this situation. If you have a custom php.ini file in the root of your hosting, comment it out to confirm that nothing is missing form the file. Commenting it out will force your site to use the servers master php.ini file which will have all the required information in it.
The next thing to look at is something that you posted previously [libx264 @ 0x84be90]broken ffmpeg default settings detected. While this is a long shot and can often be seen on a server when the bitrate is incorrect, but as we are running out of options have the server admin look into it. your should be able to manually run a video conversion @ terminal using SSH and it should not show any errors.
The last option would be to have the FFMPEG upgraded to a more recent version. Your ffmpeg is 0.65 and the current version is 2.02, so if you are reading this section because nothing else has worked then i would recommend you consider this option. Make sure you get libx264 compiled when they upgrade. The php.ini file will be relevant when you upgrade as the more recent versions do add extension = "ffmpeg.so" into the servers master php.ini file so make sure that they don't upgrade and leave a local copy of the php.ini file in your root.
Let me know how you get on after trying this.
One last thing is can you please edit your first post and update the login information, the details we have are not allowing me to log in so i cannot look / check anything. I know you have sent them by PM to Dimas but he is not on shift now so it doesnt help. this will be important for future support that you do this
