most excellent, this 3.5 still uses elgg db correct ?   thanks so much

Yes this will use elgg db. Actual video entities would be saved in the elgg db. The extra overhead of queue has been cut down from elgg db and shifted to sqlite. Easy sql statements to deal with columns instead of thousand of rows. So this would be great move toward optimization. We are working on elgg core to find more feasible solutions to cutdown load from elgg db without messing with elgg db.

sqlite scheme can save lots of resources not for only izap_videos plugin, but for elgg core it self.

I just released this version. Please download from http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/izap/read/385079/izap_videos-35-candidate-release-cut-down-background-database-processing

Thanks

Mark, if your on a shared server, most of them do not have FFmpeg available, mine runs just fine without it, thats the only fail i get in that screen.  The only way in most cases to get connected to that from what i understand is the be on a vps (virtual private server) or a dedicated server all by yourself.  At least that is how my host works and thats the info im getting from other hosts as well.

@Durangod Many thanks for getting back to me.  I have had a little test, and you are right, it all seems to work at the moment... magic!  I am using a Cloud Server, so I guess this is the same as a shared server, so this might well explain the issue.  ( but I am pretty sure it passed on my old standard shared server host).  Thanks again.

@iionly:
Well videos should be deleted from directories. I will see this issue and if confirmed, than i will fix this. In the coming release, we are coming with more control over queue. So many updates and recommended to upgrade version 3.0.

I hope, we will be able to release next week. You can try svn version if you are more curious. Here you can find svn version. http://izapvideos.googlecode.com
Thanks.

Please tell me what a stable version of ffmpeg you're using, and (or) give the download link! Video really is not deleted from the server, I have many users, and even though I have 3 terabytes of memory on the server, but the place is quickly spent, but very difficult to remove by hand! Watermarks I work normally, but if they interfere with correct operation of the queue, then of course they must be removed, some laws relating to cessation of the queue because of some video files I have not watched. In one case, these files are properly converted, but in either case, all froze, as if to load each file separately, they are almost always converted well, so I can not respond because of some files froze all. I'm going to test the work of the video plug on your site. Thank you for your reply!  I look forward to the new version!

@iZAP:

Thanks, I might test out version 3 svn soon, because vazco_mainpage now is ready to embed it on the main page. Though I must say that I'm still a bit worried because of the many comments about queue problems. With version 2.5 I've no queing problems anymore although it was quite difficult to get it running in the first place on my productive server due to some of the default ffmpeg parameters not being accepted by the server (either not at all or only resulting in errors with some files). I had no such problem on my test installation before. The only remaining problem both on the test server and the productive server is the problem with the files not getting deleted from the user upload directories. Although this is quite a valid reason to test version 3 at least on my test installation :-).