• If you are still using CentOS 7.9, it's time to convert to Alma 8 with the free centos2alma tool by Plesk or Plesk Migrator. Please let us know your experiences or concerns in this thread:
    CentOS2Alma discussion
  • Inviting everyone to the UX test of a new security feature in the WP Toolkit
    For WordPress site owners, threats posed by hackers are ever-present. Because of this, we are developing a new security feature for the WP Toolkit. If the topic of WordPress website security is relevant to you, we would be grateful if you could share your experience and help us test the usability of this feature. We invite you to join us for a 1-hour online session via Google Meet. Select a convenient meeting time with our friendly UX staff here.

Issue Help with FFMPEG

alkemy007

New Pleskian
Server operating system version
Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Plesk version and microupdate number
Obsidian Version 18.0.59
Hi guys. I'm trying to get FFMPEG installed on my VPS.

Basically, I need FFMPEG installed, as the custom MP3 player I use for my website can generate audio previews, but needs FFMPeg installed on my server to do so. A friend of mine is helping me with the management of the server, but we can't seem to get the audio previews as an option. We have contacted IONOS (who I bought the VPS off) and Sonaar (who make the MP3 player), and they say FFMPEG may not be installed correctly. As it's a self managed server, my support with IONOS is very limited.

The steps we have done so far are:

01: Installed FFMPeg on the server. It says to change the path in the MP3 player settings, to reflect the installation path, which we did (/usr/bin/ffmpeg).

02: Once FFMPeg was installed on the server, we made sure the server allowed shell_exec() function, and changed the "Raise max_execution_time" and "max_input_time to 900" as per the instructions from Sonaar.

But we still don't have the option to add audio previews on the MP3 player, and the developers are adamant that it must be a problem with either the installation, or we may need to do something else, as we are using Plex Obsidian, but myself and my friend are out of ideas.

Apologies if this post is a bit vague guys, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Back
Top