FFMPEG not detecting (yes i have ffmpeg)

Have you run the command line test with an output path in your wp-content/uploads/2015/06 folder? Part of the detection method is testing that FFMPEG can output to the uploads folder.

sorry for the late reply.. i hired someone to fix my ffmpeg. its ok now.

is it possible to create the video images first before converting the videos?

im using a front end post form and a plugin to select first image as featured image.. the problem is.. if there no image created before post is published,so there’s no featured image to select.. its just blank.

can you suggest a plugin or something i can do to fix this..

Have you turned on automatic thumbnail generation? It’s in the FFMPEG Settings tab of the plugin settings page. When you upload a video, the plugin will automatically generate a thumbnail and set it as the featured image.

yes i did.. but it always gets attached to the video.. 3 images all attached to the video.

Set generated video thumbnails as featured images = YES
Attach thumbnails to = POST

Ok, so we’ll have to break down the order of operations to figure this out. As I understand it, a user uploads a video from a front-end form. That form creates a media attachment in WordPress. My plugin is set to create three thumbnails as soon as the media attachment database entry is created. Then there’s also a post item created. I don’t know when or how that happens because I don’t know what this other plugin is, but it sounds like the post is not set as the media attachment’s parent before the thumbnails are created, so the plugin doesn’t know which post to attach them to. Can you verify that the posts you’re expecting to have thumbnails attached to are set as parents of the media attachments eventually? You can see that in the Media Library if you switch to list view (wp-admin/upload.php?mode=list) and look in the column called “Uploaded to”. If your video called “Video 1” is shown as uploaded to “Post 1” then I’ll have some thinking to do. If it’s “(Unattached)” then we know why the thumbnails aren’t associated with a post.

im using WP User Frontend Pro
https://wedevs.com/products/plugins/wp-user-frontend-pro/

the post can be submitted and created only when the attachment is uploaded completely.

Can you verify that the posts you’re expecting to have thumbnails attached to are set as parents of the media attachments eventually?

yes, the video is attached to the post after it is created.
and all the video images are attached to the video.

So I think it’s a timing problem. The post isn’t created until after the thumbnails. I’ll see if I can come up with a way to use the wp_update_post hook so whenever the parent of an attachment changes, the child thumbnails are modified to be children of the post. That’s going to take a few weeks. I created a GitHub issue if you want to track my progress on that.

In the meantime, you could modify your theme to display the attached video’s featured image rather than the post’s featured image. It should be a relatively simple query. Rather than the_post_thumbnail( $size, $attr ); or whatever your theme currently uses, it would be something like this (not tested!!!)

$args = array( 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'post_status' =>'any', 'post_parent' => $post->ID );

$attachments = get_posts( $args );

if ( $attachments ) {

	foreach ( $attachments as $attachment ) {

		$video_thumbnail = get_the_post_thumbnail( $attachment->ID, 'thumbnail' ); //adjust size as needed

		if ( !empty($video_thumbnail) {
			echo $video_thumbnail;
			break; //only display the first video attachment thumbnail
		}

	} //end loop

} //end if attachments

Thanks for the great support.. ill wait for that update. ??

the code didn’t work but this small edit did. it didnt loop on all the images.

foreach ( $attachments as $attachment ) {
echo  get_the_post_thumbnail( $attachment->ID, 'thumbnail' );
	}

Btw.. is it possible to manually set the quality of the player?
like for example ill be showing 360p only.
do_shortcode( '[KGVID quality="360"]' )
what i want to do is disable HD or every higher quality for my guest.

im really sorry for asking too much. The site im building will depend mostly on your plugin.

If you want to feel less sorry about asking for support, you can always donate money to show your appreciation.

There is no shortcode attribute for limiting embedded formats. I can see how it would be useful for some people. I created an issue on Github to track my progress on that feature. I can’t promise it will be in the next release.

ill surely donate on my next pay.. your plugin is awesome.

it doesn’t have to be a short code. sorry i didn’t mention that.
any ways to detect the videos would be nice.
i tried it but all i got was 1 video, i couldn’t get the other formats.

the code is messy but i finally got the videos out..
i wish there was an easier way i could use, like saving the video IDs on the post meta and attachment meta.

how do i use wp_get_attachment_metadata.. i would like to detect the dimensions of the videos.

<?php
$args = array( 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'post_status' =>'any', 'post_parent' => $post->ID );
$attachments = get_posts( $args );
if ( $attachments ) {
foreach ( $attachments as $attachment ) {
$video_thumbnail = $attachment->ID;

if ( get_post_mime_type( $video_thumbnail ) == 'video/mp4' ) {

$video_hd = $video_thumbnail;
}}} ?> 

<?php
$args = array( 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'post_status' =>'any', 'post_parent' => $video_hd );
$attachments = get_posts( $args );
if ( $attachments ) {
foreach ( $attachments as $attachment ) {
$video_thumbnail = $attachment->ID;

if ( get_post_mime_type( $video_thumbnail ) == 'video/mp4' ) {
$video_low = $video_thumbnail;
}}} ?> 

<?php
echo $video_low;
echo ('(LQ_');
echo get_post_mime_type( $video_low );
echo (')  |  ');

echo $video_hd;
echo ('(HD_');
echo get_post_mime_type( $video_hd );
echo (')');
 ?> 

(<?php wp_get_attachment_metadata( $video_hd, 'width' ); ?>)

I’m not totally following everything you’re doing in that code block, but it might help you to know that every child format of the original video has a post_meta entry called _kgflashmediaplayer-format that will tell you what kind of video it is. The possible entries are

1080 (1080p H.264)
720 (720p H.264)
mobile (up to 360p for 16:9 videos)
webm
ogg
custom_h264
custom_webm
custom_ogg

And this is not related to my plugin, but you can get the dimensions of most videos if you request the full attachment metadata. Something like

$video_meta = wp_get_attachment_metadata( $video_hd );
if ( $video_meta['height'] > 360 ) { do something }

thank you for the quick reply.. the code worked great ??

Hey thanks for the new update. it works perfectly now. I’ve donated btw. its not much but hope it helps..

And thank you for the donation!