Plugin can't find FFMPEG even with correct directory

That seems to execute correctly from the command line, but try updating the output path to the current uploads directory so we can verify that you can write to that path. So, rather than uploads/2013/10/ make it uploads/2015/12. If it works this might also have the effect of tricking the plugin into thinking everything is working.

Thanks for your reply,

I have done this and gotten this result:

/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i https://gaelbhratach.ie/wp-content/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/images/sample-video-h264.mp4 -vframes 1 -f mjpeg https://gaelbhratach.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ffmpeg_exists_test.jpg
ffmpeg version N-77270-g0bdf84b-syslint Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 4.8.5 (GCC) 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
  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      55. 11.100 / 55. 11.100
  libavcodec     57. 17.100 / 57. 17.100
  libavformat    57. 20.100 / 57. 20.100
  libavdevice    57.  0.100 / 57.  0.100
  libavfilter     6. 21.100 /  6. 21.100
  libswscale      4.  0.100 /  4.  0.100
  libswresample   2.  0.101 /  2.  0.101
  libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'https://gaelbhratach.ie/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: 0.021333, 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 (default)
    Metadata:
      handler_name    : VideoHandler
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 2 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      handler_name    : SoundHandler
[swscaler @ 0x238f720] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly
Output #0, mjpeg, to 'https://gaelbhratach.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ffmpeg_exists_test.jpg':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : isom
    minor_version   : 512
    compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
    encoder         : Lavf57.20.100
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: mjpeg, yuvj420p(pc), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      handler_name    : VideoHandler
      encoder         : Lavc57.17.100 mjpeg
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (h264 (native) -> mjpeg (native))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
frame=    1 fps=0.0 q=7.6 Lsize=      42kB time=00:00:00.04 bitrate=8211.2kbits/s
video:42kB audio:0kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 0.000000%

It hasn’t seemed to have the effect of tricking the plugin though,

still getting this:

FFMPEG is not executing correctly at /usr/local/bin/. You can embed existing videos and make thumbnails with compatible browsers, but video encoding is not possible without FFMPEG.

Error message: sh: /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg: No such file or directory

Any ideas?

Thanks,

David

Unfortunately this is where I get to the end of my ability to configure other people’s servers. As far as I can tell the problem is that your user can run FFMPEG fine, but PHP doesn’t have permission to access /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg but I don’t exactly know why.