ffmpeg on MacMini

Hi,

we have acquired a licensed version of dolphin7 and are trying it out as a kickstarter type platform. We also want to make use of the video modul. Unfortunately the video module requires ffmpeg and we are currently hosting the platform on a Mac mini. I have installed ffmpeg via macports and it works in the terminal, but even after adding the path to the header.inc.php we still receive video upload errors in the fronted.

Has anyone solved the mac ffmpeg issue?

thank you

Rebecca

Cute. Why not run it on the Raspberry Pi?  My suggestion is to wipe the Mac OS from the Mac Mini and put one of the Linux distro on it.  A quick search will turn up instructions for many of the current Linux flavours.

Have you tried linking the installed FFmpeg binary to ffmpeg.exe?

# ln -s /path/to/new/ffmpeg /path/to/dolphin/flash/modules/global/app/ffmpeg.exe

Also, what errors?

Seriously, if this is suppose to be a serious kickstarter platform, then go with the recommendation from Boonex for Dolphin.  If this is just for fun, then go ahead and play with the Mac Mini and the Mac OS.  You have already ran up against one issue and you will probably face many more.  With using the Mac Mini, unless there are a lot of Mac users on here running Dolphin on Apple hardware, you will have limited support for those issues.

You can get static ffmpeg binary for Mac OSX here:

http://ffmpegmac.net

then rename ffmpeg file found in the downloaded archive to ffmpeg.exe and upload it to Dolphin root folder/flash/modules/global/app/ffmpeg.exe, by replacing existing ffmpeg.exe file.

Hello everyone,

actually ffmpeg was working fine. It fills up the error_log, but it was not the culprit. When uploading a video, the categories, tags etc aren't allowed to be 0, since the RayVideo table structure doesn't set a default=null. But categories, tags etc. are not required for example in the aqb blog module, so they were in fact null, but the data base wouldn't accept...

thank you for your help

Rebecca