ffmpeg for gallery 2

any one install ffmpeg on dreamhost server and how ?

any help would be appreciated im using gallery2 and want to have thumbnails of my movies

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any one install ffmpeg on dreamhost server and how ?

any help would be appreciated im using gallery2 and want to have thumbnails of my movies

Do not cross post.

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Do not cross post.

Jeez, Simon, could you possibly be more rude and demanding, and less helpful?!

It's obviously not obvious to some newcomers.

It's not in the Forum Intro/Guidelines. In fact, the Forum Guidelines can easily be interpreted as saying the assorted Forums are separate Forums. Thus, a person looking for answers might reasonably post to a couple different Forums, and they do now and then:

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While the occasional tangent is perfectly fine, please try to stay within the realm of the forum you post to. A special catch-all forum called "Offtopic Discussion" has been created specifically for off-topic posting.

I think this person picked a couple reasonably on target Forums, and ought to be given a break for not being fully aware of what Simon Says about cross posts.

As for the OP, I don't use either, sorry. From a quick look, I'd guess it ought to install/compile OK.

Good luck,

BobS

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Jeez, Simon, could you possibly be more rude and demanding, and less helpful? --
It's obviously not obvious to some newcomers.

I've never come across a forum, message board, bulletin board, or mailing list where cross posting isn't frowned upon in the strongest possible terms. I kept my post brief and informative, because I didn't want to waste my time getting into a netiquette discussion.

You obviously have a personal dislike for me, Bob, though I fail to see why. Why not just ignore my messages? I sometimes wonder that you only post these types of replies to (a) get on my nerves or (b) to get your referral code some more exposure.

Simon Says:
> Why not just ignore my messages?

I should've written: could your post possibly be more rude and demanding, and less helpful?!

It's a subtle difference.

Anyway, I made my point. If you want to further discuss personal issues, let's take it offlist as requested by Jeff, or at least to offtopic.

Regards,

BobS

If memory serves, I just grabbed it from cvs (according to their website) via:
cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co ffmpeg

Then compiled and dropped it in ~/bin, then configured gallery2.

No magic really. Worked out of the box.

hey thanks for the post ok here is where im at maybe you can help me.

first i ftp the zip file of ffmpeg to a dir called ffmpeg

then i unziped it connecting with putty ssh

then from the folder ffmpeg which is in the root of my website here is what i did

./configure
make
make install

then looking in my ffmpeg dir i have a compiled ffmpeg.

my question is how do i get it over to my local/usr/bin directory

what commands and from where can i copy or move the compiled ffmpeg to my local/usr/bin folder???

please help anyone

I hate to bring up old posts but here's an easy way to do this.

set the install path in the configure command

./configure -prefix=/home/username

when you run make install it will put the files in /home/username/bin/

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If memory serves, I just grabbed it from cvs (according to their website) via:
cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co ffmpeg

Then compiled and dropped it in ~/bin, then configured gallery2.

No magic really. Worked out of the box.

how do you compile through SSH?

Above should read:

./configure --prefix=/home/username

when you run make install it should put the files in /home/username/bin/

Ive just tried this but I got permission denied messages for creating bin and lib in my username directory. I created these two folders with write permission and tried make install again, this time I got: "install: cannot change
permissions of `/home/username/bin': Operation not permitted"

anyone know what I can do?

You're substituting your real username for "username", right? (Just double-checking.)

Also, make sure the permissions for your new ~/bin directory are 775.

Last, if the installer is trying to change the permissions on ~/bin, you may have to dig through the makefile to see what it's trying to do. You _may_ have to enable group write for your home directory during the install.

Same for your new ~/lib directory if you see similar errors for it.

-B...

Yes, I was replacing 'username'.

Ok figured it out, had to be logged in as the owner of my install directory.

Summary--> To install ffmpeg:
-Login to SSH as the owner account of your directory.
-enter: "cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co ffmpeg" this will copy the ffmpeg CVS files into the directory ffmpeg
-enter "cd ffmpeg" navigates to that directory
-enter "./configure --prefix=/home/username" replacing username with your username
-enter "make"
-enter "make install"
DONE!

This is going to sound noobish...but I followed your instructions and everything went smoothly. But now I can't figure out what directory to make the script search. =X

I've tried everything I could think of, but it won't detect ffmpeg in any of the directories I set. And I've tried just about everything.

Thanks!

I'm not sure what you mean by script but ffmpeg will be located in:

/home/USERNAME/bin/ffmpeg

replace USERNAME with yours.

Thanks for the reply, I'm pretty sure it's just zOOm gallery not detecting it properly. I tried that and almost everything else and it won't find it. Thanks again.