Encode Selected blanked out?

That means either you don’t have FFMPEG installed on your server or you haven’t pointed the plugin to the path where FFMPEG is installed on your server.

Thanks for the fast response.

I have disabled ‘When possible, use the browser’s built-in video capabilities to make thumbnails instead of FFMPEG.’ and the thumbnails generate ok. I monitored the server at the FFMPEG started.

The test output also seems to work fine..?

ffmpeg version 0.9.1-syslint, Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Apr 15 2015 15:26:57 with gcc 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/cpffmpeg --enable-shared --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-decoder=liba52 --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cpffmpeg/include/ --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cpffmpeg/lib --enable-version3 --extra-version=syslint
  libavutil    51. 32. 0 / 51. 32. 0
  libavcodec   53. 42. 4 / 53. 42. 4
  libavformat  53. 24. 2 / 53. 24. 2
  libavdevice  53.  4. 0 / 53.  4. 0
  libavfilter   2. 53. 0 /  2. 53. 0
  libswscale    2.  1. 0 /  2.  1. 0
  libpostproc  51.  2. 0 / 51.  2. 0
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/home/goservco/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/images/sample-video-h264.mp4':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : isom
    minor_version   : 512
    compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
    encoder         : Lavf55.33.100
  Duration: 00:00:01.02, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 123 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 109 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 11988 tbn, 47.95 tbc
    Metadata:
      handler_name    : VideoHandler
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 2 kb/s
    Metadata:
      handler_name    :
[buffer @ 0x1164c00] w:1920 h:1080 pixfmt:yuv420p tb:1/1000000 sar:1/1 sws_param:
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] using SAR=1/1
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] frame MB size (120x68) > level limit (1620)
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] DPB size (3 frames, 24480 mbs) > level limit (0 frames, 8100 mbs)
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] MB rate (195644) > level limit (40500)
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] using cpu capabilities: none!
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] profile Constrained Baseline, level 3.0
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] 264 - core 146 r2538 121396c - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2015 - https://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=0 ref=3 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x1:0x111 me=hex subme=7 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=0 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-2 threads=1 lookahead_threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=0 weightp=0 keyint=250 keyint_min=23 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=40 rc=crf mbtree=1 crf=23.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00
Output #0, mp4, to '/home/goservco/public_html/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/sample-video-h264-1080.mp4':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : isom
    minor_version   : 512
    compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
    encoder         : Lavf53.24.2
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (![0][0][0] / 0x0021), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=-1--1, 2997 tbn, 23.98 tbc
    Metadata:
      handler_name    : VideoHandler
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (@[0][0][0] / 0x0040), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 160 kb/s
    Metadata:
      handler_name    :
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (h264 -> libx264)
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (aac -> libfaac)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
frame=   24 fps=  7 q=28.0 Lsize=      16kB time=00:00:00.95 bitrate= 132.5kbits/s
video:13kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 12.591228%
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] frame I:1     Avg QP:11.37  size: 12191
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] frame P:23    Avg QP:13.17  size:    35
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] mb I  I16..4: 97.7%  0.0%  2.3%
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] mb P  I16..4:  0.0%  0.0%  0.0%  P16..4:  0.0%  0.0%  0.0%  0.0%  0.0%    skip:100.0%
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% inter: 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] i16 v,h,dc,p: 98%  0%  2%  0%
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 37% 16% 25%  5%  2%  6%  2%  6%  2%
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] i8c dc,h,v,p: 100%  0%  0%  0%
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] ref P L0: 85.2% 14.8%
[libx264 @ 0x115b460] kb/s:103.79

Unless I’m mistaken? I don’t count myself as a linux master by any stretch of the imagination.

That all looks like it’s in order. Looking closer at the image it seems like you’re using the Embed video from URL tab, so it’s most likely a JavaScript error. Can you open the developer console in your browser and check for errors? Does encoding work for videos that you have in your Media Library? What’s the URL of the video you’re trying to encode? Do you see a popup message when you hover the cursor over the faded out area?

1. No browser error

2. Have used ‘Add from server’ to place into library and the encoding option appears and begins successfully!
2a… Do I have to keep the browser open to complete the action or can I change pages etc?

3. URL is within the server and no popup message when hover over the cursor area.
3a… The file is around 700mb so maybe it doesn’t ‘like’ the URL method?

There’s no need to keep the browser open once encoding starts. Everything happens in the background.

I don’t think the size of the file should matter. I’d like to figure out what’s going on with the Embed from URL method. Can you give me the URL of the video?

No problem, thanks for your help.

Unfortunately I cannot provide it, it is a local link to the server and at the moment there may well be many vulnerabilities as I have not made anything secure.

I’ll hopefully be able to update you with the link in the next 24/48 hours though.