Hello HWD Family,

I have a problem that i just can't seem to understand after a week of trying to figure it out i give up and have come here for the fix!! lol,

basically when i upload a video, everything uploads great with no issues at all. In the uploads folder i get a converted flv and mp4 version of the file and the actual original upload does go to the original folder. But nothing never gets converted for some reason and displayed on site, it simply sits at Qeueud For Conversion, and if i do go to manually convert it, it still does not convert but status changes to converting.

That is my issue, not sure if a path is off somewhere or a small setting is not set. Everything is going great as far as the files making it to my server in the upload folder.

I Also get:

Method 1 [Direct Background Execution] This method does not work on your server.
Method 2 [WGet Background Execution] This method does not work on your server.
Method 3 [WGet Background Execution] This method does not work on your server.

Setup:
Windows 2008
Wamp(Apache)

Thanks So Much N Advance

Make sure that the paths to the PHP command interpreter (php-cli) and wget are correct in General Settings. Aditionaly check in Joomla Help -> PHP Information that safe_mode is set to OFF and the exec function is not disabled

Thanks For Quick Response,

I went and checked and safe mode is set to off and disabled_functions says none. One thing im not 100% which may be the problem is when i look in the php information it states:
Configuration File (php.ini) Path C:/Windows

But i thought PHP was located in the wamp folder which is the directory i have for PHP, should i change this to C:Windows as the PHP directory for hwdvideo setting??

Also, not sure if it matters but for Mencoder i left the settings at:
/usr/local/bin/mencoder

I didnt think that wasnt needed at all since using ffmpeg.

eazy4u wrote:
I went and checked and safe mode is set to off and disabled_functions says none. One thing im not 100% which may be the problem is when i look in the php information it states:
Configuration File (php.ini) Path C:/Windows
But i thought PHP was located in the wamp folder which is the directory i have for PHP, should i change this to C:Windows as the PHP directory for hwdvideo setting??

It is ok that the php.ini is in C:/WINDOWS altough the php executable is in other path. If PHP is installed within the path folder look for a php.exe executable, that should be the path to php-cli you have to set in Server Settings -> Path to PHP
Also, not sure if it matters but for Mencoder i left the settings at:
/usr/local/bin/mencoder
I didnt think that wasnt needed at all since using ffmpeg.
Right, it does not matter as long as you set ffmpeg to perform the conversion

I went and actually looked back at settings and saw i was missing a letter for the wget path, and when i upload a video now i get a message after upload stating:
movie.wmv has been processed. Your video is now being processed...

Before it just stated the video was queued for conversion.

Also page goes to white blank page if i let it sit at video being processed message.

And now the actual status goes straight to converting where before it was Queued For Conversion. The file i uploaded is about 20MB, is it now maybe working and ijust need to wait for conversion?? When i go to manual convert like i have in past it shows 0 videos queued and waiting for conversion, but it does say i have one video being converted....seems like im close i think.

Is the method 1 enabled? If it is I suggest you to use it instead wget.

If automatic conversion is working, after the video is uploaded in the task manager you should see that ffmpeg is running and using a great deal of the CPU. A few seconds after ffmpeg is finished the video status should go to Approved. If the conversion takes too long (and HD encoding may take some minutes), the PHP process may time out, so you need to increase the value of the max_execution_time directive. I suggest you to start testing small files and disable HD encoding to leave the timeout factor out, and it they are converted ok then try HD.

All this time i have had it on method 3 not realizing it, i changed it to 1 and after upload i got the message:
Your video is queued for conversion and will appear on our website once this is complete.

On option 3 i get message:
video has been processed. Your video is now being processed...