Requirements

Apart from what is assembled by the buildout, the following dependencies must be installed manually for the transcoding scripts to work:

• ffmpeg with x264 support

• ffmpeg2theora

The daemon has been tested with Python2.4 and Python2.6.

Installation

The instructions below are for setting up a standalone transcode daemon.

If you want a complete transcoding solution for the Plone CMS use collective.transcode.star

The best way to install a standalone daemon is to use zc.buildout and the buildout.cfg file provided

python2.6 bootstrap.py
./bin/buildout
...
./bin/transcodedaemon fg
Initializing
Launched http channel
Launched TranscodeDaemon scheduler thread....

Configuration

You can edit the following options in buildout.cfg:

listen_host
    hostname to listen

listen_port
    port to use

videofolder
    relative path of folder where transcoded videos are stored

secret
    a secret shared key used for authentication and encryption

profiles
    a python list of dicts specifying the supported transcoding profiles

Don’t forget to run ./bin/buildout after editing buildout.cfg

You can also customize the transcoding scripts inside the scripts directory.

0.12 (2012-12-03)

• download videos from inside the transcoding scripts to prevent daemon unresponsivenes [dimo]

• get child output after sleep, improves error reporting [dimo]

• increase socket timeout [mgogoulos]

0.11 (2012-11-17)

• fix stripping of ‘#’ in file paths [mgogoulos]

• add timeout for urlretrieve [dimo]

• add yasm in ffmpeg buildout [dimo]

• update ffmpeg & transcode scripts [dimo]

0.10 (2012-01-05)

• fix getDuration [dimo]

• add video/x-matroska to supported mimetypes [dimo]

• increase sleep cycle [dimo]

0.9 (2011-12-17)

• fix negative time bug [mgogoulos]

• add tests [dimo]

• track transcode progress [dimo]

• add ffmpeg to daemon buildout [dimo]

• update dependencies [dimo, cpsaltis]

• improve error handling [dimo]

• nicer buildout formatting [cpsaltis]

• set video/webm as default content-type in videofolder [dimo]

• updated default transcode scripts [dimo, cpsaltis]

• moved to github [garbas]

0.8 (2010-05-10)

• add timeout to scheduler queue to avoid possible transcoder freeze [dimo, mgogoulos]

0.7 (2010-11-23)

• use a proper tempfile before transcoding [clopy]

0.6 (2010-10-21)

• remove version pins in setup.py to prevent version conflict errors [dimo]

0.5 (2010-10-09)

• delete support [clopy]

• support for creating DVD iso files when combined with collective.transcode.burnstation [clopy, cpsaltis, dimo, mgogoulos]

0.4 (2010-08-03)

• cleared up codebase [cpsaltis]

• removed dependency on twisted.web2 [cpsaltis]

• removed dependency on minitage.recipe [cpsaltis]

• simplified buildout.cfg [cpsaltis]

0.3 (2010-07-23)

• Better normalizing [dimo]

• Add hashlib to dependencies for python 2.4 compatibility [cpsaltis]

0.2 (2010-07-22)

• First stable release [dimo]

0.1 (2010-02-18)

• Initial release [dimo]