@MontanaMIke

My knowledge about PHP is quite limited, so I don't know what could cause the problem in this line of code. Maybe the reason for the error is not in this line of code after all. I got an idea when I noticed the "exec()" statement in connection with the "Permission Denied". Are you sure that exec() is enabled on your server? You can check it for example on the Server analysis page of the izap_videos plugin. I believe the Tidypics plugin uses exec(), too. Have you installed the Tidypics plugin for image uploads? Does this work without problems?

If you don't have any problems with Tidypics and exec() is shown as enabled both in the Tidypics and izap_videos server analysis, I would guess that the reason for the error is indeed somewhere in the izap_videos plugin code. Then the next version hopefully solves the problem. In case you have also problems for example with Tidypics picture uploads there might be some permission issues with exec() on your server. You might want to contact support then.

@mikejkelley

The supported sites (via "Enter URL") are listed at http://code.google.com/p/izapvideos/. If you Add a video via "Enter Embed Code" many other sites work, too. But it's not possible to give a complete list of these sites. Some sites include parameters in the embed code that are filtered by Elgg due to security reasons and these videos won't work then.

hello,

I installed izap video on elgg 1.5 three months ago. First, i had no problem uploading an converting video. About a month ago,

* when i was uploading no-flv videos the conversion process was not starting a lot (thumbnail was created thouph),

* when i was uploading .flv videos, the upload process was succefull, but the thumbnail was not created.

Furthermore, in the server analysis tab, a have 2 problems,

1. the Simple command returns failure. i used all the possible values for the convertion command. the strange part is that when i browse the data folder, the folder 'server_test' contains and the converted video (test_video.avi). i tested with another .avi video (bigger in size, almost 2MB) and the result was to convert only the 0.29MB (just like the test_video.avi size)

2. the PHP interpreter test returns success, but the another strange thing is that, in the '<TD>' where it should be the php version values, the command "echo $php;" {90} of the server_analysis.php, recreates the whole pages several times until the script returns failure. The result was something like this : "X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.13Content-type: text/htmlX-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.13Content-type: text/htmlX-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.13Content-type: text/htmlX-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.13Content-type: text/htmlX-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.13Content-type: text/htmlX-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.13Content-type: text/html" followed by the whole page!!

The site was hosted in a shared server, so at the begin the server_apalysis tab was returning only 'Internal Server Error', caused by the multiple concurrent php processes. I changed server, and i realized the problem, so i made, the {90} line of the .php file, a comment.

So i ask: Is it possible, a update of the PHP version on the server to cause this errors? (i use now 5.2.13 PHP version)

i expect a response from the shared-server team, if they update the PHP version by the time i had these problems.

The changes i made to the website were not affected the functionality of the plugin.

I also tested new test version of the elgg platform and izap videos plugin and the result was exavlty the same.

Also, is it possible the 1.5 version of elgg to have stability problems with the PHP version (5.2.13) i use?

Forgive me for my englsih, by the way.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for a great plugin.

hello again,

Sorry for my english again..

please if anyone knows how to fix the problems i have, i would be grateful!

Also, if the return value ($return_vlaue) of the exec() ffmpeg command (the command which converts the videos) is '1', what does this means?? I made a simple script (ff_test.php) with this exec() command :

$cmd = "$ffmpeg -y -i $video $new_video";
exec($cmd, $out_array, $return_array);

the video is converted to a specific folder succesfully, but the variable $return_value is not '0', but '1'.  Is this a server issue??

Hi,

Could anybody advise me please?
Which .php file in the izap plugin would I need to edit to remove the link "copy this video to my videos" which appears at the top of a video?

Thanks

@elggfan:

To remove the "Copy this video..." link you have to edit /views/default/izap_videos/video/index.php.

@ Iionly,

Many thanks for your quick reply.
By removing lines 16-20 in /views/deafult/izap_videos/video/index.php, the link "copy this video to my videos" has gone - which is exactly what I wanted.
Once again, thanks for your quick response.

Line 25 (echo $Add;) can also be removed.

@IZAP:

Sorry for asking... but may I ask nonetheless what's going on? I'm slightly confused about the silence regarding updates lately. Maybe not fair to expect it (free software...), but I'm at a loss. First there's some announcement that there will be something new available soon... and then nothing seems to happen. I know that there had been some updates/fixes available on the google development site, but that's also part of the problem.

It seems to me that each new version since 3.0 not only introduced new features but also introduced new issues/bugs/problems at the same time. While some of these issues were fixed with later versions, some new features with new bugs/problems were introduced with these versions yet again.

There are open issues remaining, people asking for support here in their comments... and nothings seems to happen for weeks. Sorry to say that, but it's slightly frustrating. The izap_videos plugin is surely an outstanding plugin and a lot of people want to use it... want to use all features it offers.

Maybe it would help to concentrate on fixing open issues before new features / major changes are introduced. It might help to work on a stable release first (since 3.5 only beta versions have been released). Afterwards, major changes could be included in a development/beta branch again.

@iionly:

Sorry for this unintentional delay. Actually we are moving our office and that's why everything get messed up. We will be settle down by this week. And I will continue to take these issues from the coming Monday.

Thanks

I am using 1.7.1 ver ,with 3 column riverdashboard . Activity river showing only url of video added in izap_video but no video player or any blank box ,I wanna display small video player with every added video in activity river please help me .

Hi, nice plugin :-)

I still have a "there was a problem loading your movie, try again later" on the player when uploading files...

It works with the .avi example file (the funny one :-) but not with others formats like mp4 or MPEG for example. It keeps displaying this error message. The thumbnail is fine and I tested the conversion with ffmpeg in command line and it works ok.

Did I miss something ?

Need help Video player not shown in 3 column riverdashboard activity.

i want to ask.How can i enable pdo_sqlite drivers support.thanks so much

I think that is a server compile issue...I am at the same cross road myself.