Well this was a good one, and the solution is insanely easy and simple.  Go and check the path to ffmpeg in your video transcoder setting.  When transfering over from my old server the path was /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg (bsd) and on my current debian server it is /usr/bin/ffmpeg so yeeeaaaa that will screw you up something
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Yet another area where I rejoice for being a linux user as this shit is sooo much easier and faster in linux than it is in windows using a completely unnecessary GUI.  There are two ways to do this but I’ve always found that ffmpeg works best over mplayer.. However I’ll post both of them
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Alrighty, so I was attempting to extract the audio from an .avi file today and was greeted with the following error: Unsupported codec for output stream #0.0 At first I thought this was the result of my missing the libavcodec packages but upon closer inspection and a little forum reading I realized that the error
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I’m pretty certain that I encountered this problem with a previous drupal setup but just forgot to document it so that’s what I’m doing right now for the next CMS I setup.  Everything was working fine with this new setup(after 48 manhours of troubleshooting of course) until I got to this video issue.  couldn’t resolve
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Well we just started uploading videos to a new Drupal installation and I was greeted by lovely 200 error messages that went something like this: 200 Stream not found, NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound, clip: I started doing a little investigating and noticed that when I went to my video admin transcoder setting page I was greeted by a
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If you are having troubles compiling FFMPEG and are seeing errors with LibGL such as: No package ‘x11-xcb’ found You need to do a few things. Firstly upgrade X11: portupgrade libX11. This has been noted to solve a lot of problems so do this first, retry and see if it fixes it. This however might
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