Debugging video conversion can be a real problem, especially on Windows platform.
Before proceed make sure that you have ffmpeg.exe binary for windows. To get all the time latest ffmpeg build for windows refer to the following url:
http://tripp.arrozcru.org/
Or download from BoonEx:
http://www.boonex.com/ffmpeg_win.zip
after you get ffmpeg.exe binary put it to "/flash/modules/global/app/" folder, overwriting default one.
To run cron manually create "run.bat" file in "/periodic/" folder, and put the following contents into it:
c:\change-to-real-path-to\php.exe -q -c c:\change-to-real-path-to\php.ini cron.php
Change "change-to-real-path-to" to your actual path to the files, path to "php.ini" file can be found on phpinfo page:
Dolphin Admin Panel -> Tools -> Host Tools -> Phpinfo
To run this file open DOS prompt navigate to your "/periodic/" folder and type "run.bat" in command prompt, the cronjob will be run and output will be printed right-away into your DOS prompt.
Now you know the way how to run cronjobs manually, but now the problem is that video conversion job isn't always run. It is because video conversion is configured to run every 5 minutes, it means that video conversion will be run if you run any hour and 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, … minutes. To debug it more easily we will make it to run every minute, just run this SQL query:
UPDATE `sys_cron_jobs` SET `time` = '*' WHERE `name` = 'bx_videos';
Clear "DB Cache" after this SQL query is executed.
Now you can upload video files and run "run.bat" file manually to see how video conversion goes.
After you complete debugging you need to revert back cronjob to run every 5 minutes, just run this query and clear "DB Cache":
UPDATE `sys_cron_jobs` SET `time` = '*/5' WHERE `name` = 'bx_videos';
