hi
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 10:42 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > Andy, Lachlan > > Thanks for you help so far. > > I've installed a new version of MEncoder as suggested and this got me > a bit further - running indytube now generates both the ogg and flv > files in the directory: > > [r...@web3a indytube]# ls /var/www/html/xxxxxx/flv-files/johnh/videos/ > upload_a_file-a58262b17c82d42ad5bd992dd656c039.flv > upload_a_file-a58262b17c82d42ad5bd992dd656c039.ogg > > However even after the transcoding has run (and both files are OK) I > still have these error messages on the site: > > Transcode Status > The transcoding has not started. > You may like to try to re-start transcoding. > If the automatically transcoded movie is corrupted, or poor quality > etc. , you may like to turn off flowplayer and automatic transcoding. > > > and > > However we have detected that there is something wrong with the > transcoding framework. Please get in contact with us and tell us about > this video. > > > Also video is still displayed in the same way (just a still) and > played via quicktime rather than with a flashplayer. I don't get the > "embed" code either which I've seen on some other plumi sites - i.e. > the page is just showing a link to the video rather than embedding it > in the page. Do I have to explicitly activate this somewhere or is it > just because the transcoding framework is broken somehow and the site > cannot "see" the flv file? > The plone code (plumi products) is looking for a html file , next to the uploaded video on the filesystem, inside the plone instance layout. eg a video file is somewhere like /plumiinstance/var/files/Members/<username>/videos/example.mov So no you dont need to activate it explicitly - it sounds like indytube.conf isnt setup correctly for your plone instance install. Can you check it? Also , have you setup the URL correctly for serving your flowplayer SWF? > I assume indytube should be running all the time once it has started > or is it started by a scheduler? I ask because after doing the > transcode it stops with an error and does not restart even after > clicking on the "re-start transcoding" link in the interface. > If you leave it running in the background, its checking in a loop every minute by default. restart transcoding link isnt about restarting indytube, its about deleting the html fragment, produced by indytube, ie html for combining the flowplayer SWF with the newly produced FLV file. > If I run it from the command line a second time (with the transcoded > files still there) the video is transcoded again! Surely this is > wrong...if the files exist then it should see this and bypass the > transcoding. So I know something is wrong somewhere! > Yes, something is misconfigured if thats really the case. > The log file is: > > [r...@web3a indytube]# cat run_indytube.log > [swscaler @ 0x14dfc30]864x648 -> 320x240 > SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 12 -> 12 > SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 12 -> 12 > SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 12 -> 11 > SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 12 -> 11 > [swscaler @ 0x14dfc30]BICUBIC scaler, from yuv420p to yuv420p using > MMX2 > [swscaler @ 0x14dfc30]using n-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance > scaling > [swscaler @ 0x14dfc30]using n-tap MMX scaler for horizontal > chrominance scaling > [swscaler @ 0x14dfc30]using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling > (YV12 like) > [swscaler @ 0x14dfc30]864x648 -> 320x240 > ----> [flv @ 0x128f0e0]Codec for stream 0 does not use global headers > but container format requires global headers > ----> [flv @ 0x128f0e0]Codec for stream 1 does not use global headers > but container format requires global headers > [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x2aaaaad38180]negative ctts, ignoring > Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from > '/opt/Plone-2.5.5/zeocluster/client1/var/files/Members/johnh/videos/upload_a_file.mov': > Duration: 00:02:53.5, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 307 kb/s > Stream #0.0(eng): Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo > Stream #0.1(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 864x552, 24.00 fps(r) > Resize: 864x552 > 0:02:53.54 audio: 64kbps video: 347kbps, time remaining: > 00:00:00 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "indytube.py", line 254, in ? > main() > File "indytube.py", line 248, in main > looperInvoker(indytuber) > File "indytube.py", line 227, in looperInvoker > indytuber.do_transcoding_loop() > File "indytube.py", line 214, in do_transcoding_loop > os.remove(self.ENCODER_LOCKFILE) > -----> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: > '/opt/indytube/plumi-encoder.lock.0' > [r...@web3a indytube]# ./run_indytube.sh > [r...@web3a indytube]# ps ax | grep indytube > 8519 pts/0 S 0:00 python2.4 indytube.py > 8623 pts/0 R+ 0:00 grep indytube > [r...@web3a indytube]# ls /opt/indytube/ > plumi-encoder.lock.0 > > I've marked three lines: > > top 2: is this important? > Looks like output from MEncoder, so its important in the sense of an individual transcode of a video. It could help if you dont like the quality/results of the transcoding. Its not going to stop indytube itself running though. > bottom line: while indytube is running this file DOES exist but is not > there after indytube stops - which is what I'd expect so why the > error? Permissions on /opt/indytube are "plone:root" / 775 > > [r...@web3a indytube]# ls /opt/indytube/ > plumi-encoder.lock.0 > > These lock files sometimes get left around. You can safely delete them then restart indytube. > Any ideas? > > -- > Regards, > > John Hackett > E2BN > t: 020 8764 2663 > f: 020 8764 1318 > m: 07801 231118 > e: [email protected] > w: www.e2bn.org > skype: johh_hackett > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lachlan Musicman" <[email protected]> > To: "John Hackett" <[email protected]>, "Discussion about software > development on Plumi" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, 21 February, 2009 19:10:30 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, > Ireland, Portugal > Subject: Re: [plumi-discuss] problem with indytube install > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for your tips - I'm nearer but not quite there.... > > Hi John, this is good, sounds promising... :) > > > The video is transcoded into ogg (so cortado is working) but not > into flash: > > > > [r...@web3a indytube]# ls > -lah /var/www/html/xxxxxx/flv-files/johnh/videos/ > > total 3.9M > > drwxr-sr-x 2 apache apache 4.0K Feb 21 15:43 . > > drwxr-sr-x 3 apache apache 4.0K Feb 20 10:33 .. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root apache 0 Feb 21 15:43 > > upload_a_file-a58262b17c82d42ad5bd992dd656c039.flv > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root apache 3.9M Feb 21 15:44 > > upload_a_file-a58262b17c82d42ad5bd992dd656c039.ogg > > > > So I think I have my directories correct but somehow the > ruby/flvtool2 bit > > is wrong. > > > > Would the MEncoder version an issue (I have MEncoder > dev-SVN-r22970-4.1.1 > > installed) as there are two options in the indytube.conf file. Is > this an > > "older" one? > > > > Any ideas on what is causing the ERROR messages above? > > > I would say that it is an older version of mencoder and I would > recommend updating. It's quite hard to tell - I've always found the > mplayer/mencoder site hard to read/understand :) > > If we look at the mplayer svn trunk: > http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/ > you can see that the latest revision of mencoder is 28520. > > If you use the tool on the top of that page to look at the revision > you are using, 22970, > http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/?pathrev=22970 , you see that > mencoder is only at revision 22330. > > Also, if you look at the Changelog on the files that are listed as > outdated (v 1.0rc2 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/ChangeLog > ) you can see that this version of mplayer is at r24722 > > I would recommend updating either to the latest packages available to > you system (did you say Centos? see the mplayer download page) or > alternatively, use the latest revision from svn - the mplayer site > recommends this course of action as well. > > Let us know how you go! > > cheers > L. > > > > -- > I believe in revolution _because_ I understand that my hopes are > absurd. > -- Andy Nicholson http://wiki.infiniterecursion.com.au/wiki/ContactDetails
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