Interesting. I can do that, but I’m always trying to keep everything as simple as I can. What’s your situation? Are you on shared hosting and they provide an installation of FFMPEG that’s old enough that you can’t use the movflags faststart option? And you can’t install your own version of FFMPEG?
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DaveFE
(@davefe)
Wow, you read my mind! That’s EXACTLY the situation I’m in. Using a shared host that actually provides FFMPEG, so that’s good, but it’s 0.6.5 from Jan 2012 and doesn’t support movflags faststart. Support tells me they can’t go to a newer version. I have qt-faststart installed and working, but I’d need to hack your php to get it to use it where it is. I’m willing to do that, but then I have to remember to re-hack when you update.
BTW, your plugin is great. It solved several problems… a need for thumbnail generation and file conversion of some older flv’s. Also is a nice workaround to the bug with WP 4 and height responsiveness that’s broken with the default mediaelement.js.
Oh, I didn’t realize the height was broken for everyone! I assumed it was some customization I was doing that made it not work. I’m glad to be ahead of the curve for once. Those WordPress developers move so fast I have a hard time keeping up.
I’ll come up with a way to make this an option in a future version. If you just want to hack it for now, find line 5621 in the main plugin file
$cmd = escapeshellcmd($options['app_path']."/".$options['moov']." ".$filepath." ".$faststart_tmp_file);
change $options['app_path']." to your local path. For example:
$cmd = escapeshellcmd("/home/davefe/bin/".$options['moov']." ".$filepath." ".$faststart_tmp_file);
I’ve created an issue on Github for this feature request so you can track the progress.
