Comments for Kyle Gilman's Camera Noise Productions

Comment on Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator WordPress Plugin by Alex

Alex — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:14:50 +0000

Everything is working perfect! Thank you very much for your time!

Comment on Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator WordPress Plugin by Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:02:05 +0000

Success! I will release a patch pretty soon, but for now if you want to edit the plugin you should be able to get it working by making these changes: find this line:

$cmd = escapeshellcmd($options['app_path'].'/'.$options['video_app'].' -i '.plugin_dir_path(__FILE__).'/flash/skin/images/PlayNormal.png '.$uploads['path'].'/ffmpeg_exists_test.jpg');

and replace it with this:

$cmd = escapeshellcmd($options['app_path'].'/'.$options['video_app'].' -i '.plugin_dir_path(__FILE__).'/images/sample-video-h264.mp4 -vframes 1 -f mjpeg '.$uploads['path'].'/ffmpeg_exists_test.jpg');

Then find this line:

$ffmpeg_options = '-y -ss '.$movieoffset.' -i "'.$moviefilepath.'" '.$movie_info['rotate'].' -qscale 1 -vframes 1 "'.$thumbnailfilename[$i].'"';

and replace it with this:

$ffmpeg_options = '-y -ss '.$movieoffset.' -i "'.$moviefilepath.'" '.$movie_info['rotate'].' -qscale 1 -vframes 1 -f mjpeg "'.$thumbnailfilename[$i].'"';

If you want to encode any H.264 videos make sure you turn on the two FFMPEG legacy options in the plugin settings page. They're designed to help older versions of FFMPEG work.

Comment on Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator WordPress Plugin by Alex

Alex — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:54:28 +0000

Lucky me. Here’s the response:

[petercop@koko /]$ /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i /home/petercop/public_html/wp-content/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/images/sample-video-h264.mp4 -vframes 1 -f mjpeg /home/petercop/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ffmpeg_exists_test.jpg
FFmpeg version SVN-r14473, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: –prefix=/usr/local/cpffmpeg –enable-shared –enable-nonfree –enable-gpl –enable-pthreads –enable-liba52 –enable-libamr-nb –enable-libamr-wb –enable-libfaac –enable-libfaad –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libtheora –enable-libvorbis –enable-libx264 –enable-libxvid –extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cpffmpeg/include/ –extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cpffmpeg/lib –enable-cross-compile
libavutil version: 49.7.0
libavcodec version: 51.62.0
libavformat version: 52.18.0
libavdevice version: 52.0.0
built on May 15 2009 18:29:24, gcc: 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0xa03a2d0]negative ctts, ignoring
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0xa03a2d0]Could not find codec parameters (Data: tmcd / 0x64636D74)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from ‘/home/petercop/public_html/wp-content/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/images/sample-video-h264.mp4′:
Duration: 00:00:01.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 91 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 960×540, 23.98 tb(r)
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: libfaad, 48000 Hz, stereo
Stream #0.2(eng): Data: tmcd / 0x64636D74
Output #0, mjpeg, to ‘/home/petercop/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ffmpeg_exists_test.jpg’:
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: mjpeg, yuvj420p, 960×540, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 23.98 tb(c)
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
frame= 1 fps= 0 q=6.2 Lsize= 13kB time=0.04 bitrate=2618.2kbits/s
video:13kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000000%

Thanks,

Comment on Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator WordPress Plugin by Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:49:43 +0000

Apparently you've managed to find an incompatible version of FFMPEG. I should be able to fix this though. Let's try another command. /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i /path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/images/sample-video-h264.mp4 -vframes 1 -f mjpeg /path/to/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ffmpeg_exists_test.jpg

Comment on Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator WordPress Plugin by Alex

Alex — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:39:53 +0000

Here is the response:

[petercop@koko /]$ /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i /home/petercop/public_html/wp-content/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/images/sample-video-h264.mp4 -vframes 1 /home/petercop/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ffmpeg_exists_test.jpg
FFmpeg version SVN-r14473, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: –prefix=/usr/local/cpffmpeg –enable-shared –enable-nonfree –enable-gpl –enable-pthreads –enable-liba52 –enable-libamr-nb –enable-libamr-wb –enable-libfaac –enable-libfaad –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libtheora –enable-libvorbis –enable-libx264 –enable-libxvid –extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cpffmpeg/include/ –extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cpffmpeg/lib –enable-cross-compile
libavutil version: 49.7.0
libavcodec version: 51.62.0
libavformat version: 52.18.0
libavdevice version: 52.0.0
built on May 15 2009 18:29:24, gcc: 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x935d2d0]negative ctts, ignoring
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x935d2d0]Could not find codec parameters (Data: tmcd / 0x64636D74)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from ‘/home/petercop/public_html/wp-content/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/images/sample-video-h264.mp4′:
Duration: 00:00:01.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 91 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 960×540, 23.98 tb(r)
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: libfaad, 48000 Hz, stereo
Stream #0.2(eng): Data: tmcd / 0x64636D74
Unable to find a suitable output format for ‘/home/petercop/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ffmpeg_exists_test.jpg’

Thanks again.

Comment on Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator WordPress Plugin by Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:34:01 +0000

My mistake. The command should be this /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i /path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/images/sample-video-h264.mp4 -vframes 1 /path/to/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ffmpeg_exists_test.jpg

Comment on Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator WordPress Plugin by Alex

Alex — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:24:27 +0000

Didn’t even see the new command..

Here is the response I got from it:

[petercop@koko /]$ /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i /home/petercop/public_html/wp-content/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/images/sample-video-h264.mp4 /home/petercop/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ffmpeg_exists_test.jpg
FFmpeg version SVN-r14473, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: –prefix=/usr/local/cpffmpeg –enable-shared –enable-nonfree –enable-gpl –enable-pthreads –enable-liba52 –enable-libamr-nb –enable-libamr-wb –enable-libfaac –enable-libfaad –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libtheora –enable-libvorbis –enable-libx264 –enable-libxvid –extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cpffmpeg/include/ –extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cpffmpeg/lib –enable-cross-compile
libavutil version: 49.7.0
libavcodec version: 51.62.0
libavformat version: 52.18.0
libavdevice version: 52.0.0
built on May 15 2009 18:29:24, gcc: 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x88af2d0]negative ctts, ignoring
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x88af2d0]Could not find codec parameters (Data: tmcd / 0x64636D74)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from ‘/home/petercop/public_html/wp-content/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/images/sample-video-h264.mp4′:
Duration: 00:00:01.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 91 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 960×540, 23.98 tb(r)
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: libfaad, 48000 Hz, stereo
Stream #0.2(eng): Data: tmcd / 0x64636D74
Unable to find a suitable output format for ‘/home/petercop/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ffmpeg_exists_test.jpg’

Thanks.

Comment on Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator WordPress Plugin by Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:00:29 +0000

Yikes. Do not pay for that. Did you try the new command I posted?

The plugin doesn’t find FFMPEG on your server because it looks indirectly. Simply checking that the path /usr/localbin/ffmpeg exists doesn’t work because some servers hide those folders and on Windows everything is different. So in order to “find” FFMPEG the plugin executes a command that I thought would work with any build of FFMPEG. However, it does not work with your build, so it fails the test.

Comment on Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator WordPress Plugin by Alex

Alex — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:51:43 +0000

The rebuild was an option given by support – a $65 an hour option. So you’re saying zlib is not required to make the plugin work?

I’m still trying to figure out why the plugin can’t see FFMPEG on my server..

Thanks again.

Comment on Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator WordPress Plugin by Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:31:30 +0000

Well, there you go. One more thing I had no idea about. FFMPEG does appear to require zlib to open PNG files. FFMPEG isn’t supposed to require you to turn it on manually though, so that indicates that when FFMPEG was compiled your server didn’t have zlib enabled or because you’re using that ancient version then FFMPEG didn’t include it automatically. Out of curiosity, if you’re able to rebuild FFMPEG, why are you using that 5-year-old version?

I will work on an update to avoid using PNG files in my test, since they aren’t actually required for the rest of the plugin. I just had no idea it was possible to make a version that couldn’t read them.

ETA: Can you try this out on the command line?

/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i /path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/images/sample-video-h264.mp4 /path/to/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ffmpeg_exists_test.jpg