Title: FFMPEG test encoding failed.
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# FFMPEG test encoding failed.

 *  [jspackiarj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jspackiarj/)
 * (@jspackiarj)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ffmpeg-test-encoding-failed/)
 * I get the following error
    FFMPEG test encoding failed. Possible reasons: permissions
   on the plugins directory, incorrectly configured ffmpeg, etc. The plugin directory
   has been given 775 for group apache and user apache. Is something missed out?
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 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ffmpeg-test-encoding-failed/)
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