Title: Queued videos not encoding Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Queued videos not encoding * [mrengy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrengy/) * (@mrengy) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/queued-videos-not-encoding/) * Thanks for the plugin contribution! * I uploaded a video to a post on my staging site, and I clicked the “encode selected” button. Three formats are checked and show the status of “Queued”. However, they are not converting. I did this last night, and checked back, and the three other formats still show a status of “Queued”. I clicked “encode selected” again, same result. * Not sure if this makes a difference, but the site is restricted with htaccess. I entered the username and password in the “htaccess login” fieldset in the FFMPEG settings. Double checked it, and it worked fine in the browser. * Post is at [http://www.stage.emandminbeantown.com/video-test/](http://www.stage.emandminbeantown.com/video-test/) htaccess username: guest htaccess password: stackexchange * My FFMPEG settings are: 3 simultaneous encodes 1 thread “run nice” unchecked * Here is my FFMPEG test output. * ``` ffmpeg version 0.8.16-4:0.8.16-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the Libav developers built on Sep 16 2014 18:33:49 with gcc 4.6.3 The ffmpeg program is only provided for script compatibility and will be removed in a future release. It has been deprecated in the Libav project to allow for incompatible command line syntax improvements in its replacement called avconv (see Changelog for details). Please use avconv instead. Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/home/mrengy/stage.emandminbeantown.com/wp-content/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/images/sample-video-h264.mp4': Metadata: major_brand : isom minor_version : 512 compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41 encoder : Lavf55.33.100 Duration: 00:00:01.02, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 123 kb/s Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 109 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 11988 tbn, 47.95 tbc Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 2 kb/s [buffer @ 0x300aba0] w:1920 h:1080 pixfmt:yuv420p [scale @ 0x300b240] w:1920 h:1080 fmt:yuv420p -> w:640 h:360 fmt:yuv420p flags:0x4 [libx264 @ 0x3008a20] using SAR=1/1 [libx264 @ 0x3008a20] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast FastShuffle SSEMisalign LZCNT [libx264 @ 0x3008a20] profile Constrained Baseline, level 3.0 [libx264 @ 0x3008a20] 264 - core 120 r2151 a3f4407 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2011 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=0 ref=1 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x1:0x111 me=hex subme=6 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=0 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=0 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-2 threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=0 weightp=0 keyint=250 keyint_min=25 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=30 rc=crf mbtree=1 crf=23.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=10 qpmax=51 qpstep=4 vbv_maxrate=10000 vbv_bufsize=10000 crf_max=0.0 nal_hrd=none ip_ratio=1.41 aq=1:1.00 Output #0, mp4, to '/home/mrengy/stage.emandminbeantown.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sample-video-h264-360.mp4': Metadata: major_brand : isom minor_version : 512 compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41 encoder : Lavf53.21.1 Stream #0.0(eng): Video: libx264, yuv420p, 640x360 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=10-51, 2997 tbn, 23.98 tbc Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: libvo_aacenc, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 96 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 Stream #0.1 -> #0.1 Press ctrl-c to stop encoding frame= 1 fps= 0 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=10000000000.00 bitrate= 0.0kbits/s frame= 3 fps= 2 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=0.09 bitrate= 4.5kbits/s frame= 5 fps= 3 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=0.17 bitrate= 2.2kbits/s frame= 7 fps= 3 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=0.28 bitrate= 1.4kbits/s frame= 10 fps= 3 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=0.38 bitrate= 1.0kbits/s frame= 12 fps= 3 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=0.47 bitrate= 0.8kbits/s frame= 14 fps= 3 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=0.55 bitrate= 0.7kbits/s frame= 16 fps= 3 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=0.64 bitrate= 0.6kbits/s frame= 18 fps= 3 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=0.73 bitrate= 0.5kbits/s frame= 20 fps= 3 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=0.81 bitrate= 0.5kbits/s frame= 22 fps= 3 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=0.90 bitrate= 0.4kbits/s frame= 24 fps= 3 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=0.96 bitrate= 0.4kbits/s frame= 24 fps= 2 q=28.0 Lsize= 6kB time=1.00 bitrate= 48.2kbits/s video:4kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 41.915745% frame I:1 Avg QP:17.97 size: 2916 [libx264 @ 0x3008a20] frame P:23 Avg QP:27.92 size: 14 [libx264 @ 0x3008a20] mb I I16..4: 94.3% 0.0% 5.7% [libx264 @ 0x3008a20] mb P I16..4: 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% P16..4: 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% skip:100.0% [libx264 @ 0x3008a20] coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 3.3% 0.0% 0.0% inter: 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% [libx264 @ 0x3008a20] i16 v,h,dc,p: 95% 0% 5% 0% [libx264 @ 0x3008a20] i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 32% 17% 26% 3% 3% 7% 3% 6% 3% [libx264 @ 0x3008a20] i8c dc,h,v,p: 100% 0% 0% 0% [libx264 @ 0x3008a20] kb/s:25.85 ``` * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/) Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/) * (@kylegilman) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/queued-videos-not-encoding/#post-6655687) * Have you tried temporarily disabling the htaccess protection to see if that helps? * Also, your test output indicates you have LIBAV installed rather than FFMPEG. Try switching the encoding program to LIBAV. * If that doesn’t fix the problem, enable [WP_DEBUG_LOG](https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress#Example_wp-config.php_for_Debugging) and check for error messages in `wp-content/debug.log` * Thread Starter [mrengy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrengy/) * (@mrengy) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/queued-videos-not-encoding/#post-6655748) * Thanks for the reply. * Temporarily disabling htaccess protection worked. How can I get the plugin to work with htaccess protection in place? Is this a bug? I did notice when I changed the htaccess username and password under FFMPEG settings, after updating the fields, the new password I entered replaced the username field, which was weird: [http://screencast.com/t/qQPRRDhDxD1D](http://screencast.com/t/qQPRRDhDxD1D) * Plugin version 4.5.5 , Chrome 46.0.2490.71 , Mac OS 10.6.8 * Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/) * (@kylegilman) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/queued-videos-not-encoding/#post-6655890) * I did some testing on my own server with htaccess protection enabled and I was reminded that when things are working correctly the plugin doesn’t use the login/ password. It uses the file path rather than reading the file through http. That’s what’s happening when you encode the sample video on the settings page. Are you hosting your videos on a different server like Amazon S3? * Did you enable [WP_DEBUG_LOG](https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress#Example_wp-config.php_for_Debugging)? 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