No video thumbnails

[Shadowfied]

Hiya.

I just set up elFinder and I love it. It's great. Everything seems to work great, except that I'm not getting video thumbnails. Picture thumbnails work fine.
I'm running Debian 8.6 Jessie on Linux 3.16.-0-4 64, using nginx and PHP7.

I've Googled and searched but haven't found anyone with the same issue.

What do I do?

[nao-pon]

@Shadowfied Video thumbnail feature require the ffmpeg on the server.

Please try install the ffmpeg into your server.

[Shadowfied]

ffmpeg is already installed.

[nao-pon]

What results do you get of ffmpeg -version on your server shell?

[Shadowfied]

ffmpeg version N-81502-ga13a81a Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10)
configuration: --prefix=/home/shadowfied/ffmpeg_build --pkg-config-flags=--static --extra-cflags=-I/home/shadowfied/ffmpeg_build/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/shadowfied/ffmpeg_build/lib --bindir=/home/shadowfied/bin --enable-gpl --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree
libavutil      55. 29.100 / 55. 29.100
libavcodec     57. 54.101 / 57. 54.101
libavformat    57. 48.101 / 57. 48.101
libavdevice    57.  0.102 / 57.  0.102
libavfilter     6. 58.100 /  6. 58.100
libswscale      4.  1.100 /  4.  1.100
libswresample   2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100

I did build ffmpeg from source and I thought maybe that could be the culprit, but I have a friend who installed ffmpeg straight from pacman (Arch, Manjaro) and he has the same issue - no video thumbs.

[nao-pon]

This is test script. (test.php)

<?php
$tmp = 'test.mp4';
$file = 'test.png';
$ss = 6;
$cmd = sprintf('ffmpeg -ss 00:00:%.3f -vframes 1 -i %s -f image2 %s', $ss, escapeshellarg($tmp), escapeshellarg($file));
$o = array('Results:');
exec($cmd, $o);
echo join("<br>\n", $o);

• test.php
• test.mp4
• test.png -> This will made at the time of success.

[Shadowfied]

@nao-pon
Option vframes (set the number of video frames to output) cannot be applied to input file test.mp4 -- you are trying to apply an input option to an output file or vice versa. Move this option before the file it belongs to. Error parsing options for input file test.mp4. Error opening input files: Invalid argument Results:%

[nao-pon]

Please try from download test.mp4 in the same directory as the test.php.

[nao-pon]

How is $cmd = sprintf('ffmpeg -i %s -f image2 -ss 00:00:%.3f -vframes 1 %s', escapeshellarg($tmp), $ss, escapeshellarg($file));?

[Shadowfied]

I did put the files in the same directory.

It worked with your updated command. Works fine. Got a test.png frame.

[nao-pon]

@Shadowfied OK, I got it. It is a bug. I'll fix it. Thanks! 👍

[nao-pon]

@Shadowfied You can try nightly build until release 2.1.17.

Thanks for your time!

[Shadowfied]

That fixed it. Huge thanks :D