Do you know that you have FFMPEG installed on your server? Most servers do not have FFMPEG.
Im not sure if there is !!!
Using Godaddy . Is there anyway to find out if there is FFMPEG ?
And if there isn’t is there any alternative ?
Unfortunately FFMPEG is the best option I’ve found. It’s not easy to use and it takes up too many system resources for most shared hosting plans, but it works. I know that Dreamhost offers FFMPEG on their shared hosting plans.
@kyle your making me cry , I was just in love with the plugin features.
My client has already purchased with godaddy and Im sure they wont be willing to transfer hosts so soon.
I know this is outside the support of your plugin : But do you know of anyway I could just add a default thumbnail for all video posts ?
Yes. There’s an option called “Poster Image” in the plugin settings to do that. Just put the image URL in there and it will set the thumbnail for all your videos.
I really love this plugin. If this works on GoDaddy, then I can save a whole lot of time, which I spend to generate thumbnails to my video blog.
is there any way of manually installing FFMPEG via FTP? If so, where would I find the download for it and is there anything I need to do other than put the files on the server?
FFMPEG must be compiled and installed like any other software running on a server. It also requires a number of different libraries, which have to be installed before FFMPEG is compiled. Most hosting services will not allow you to do any of this, but if you have a VPS or dedicated server, ffmpeg.org has a number of guides for installation. If you’re running CentOS or similar, this one is good: https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/CentosCompilationGuide
