Odd ??? Video display / upload question ???

Is there some way to manually upload an .avi or .mp4 file to the website/user profile via FTP, followed by displaying the .avi afterwards to the public? I'm asking because our client tried to upload a rather large video (1 GB) with both, the flash and the regular uploader. The max file size is set to 2 GB so the actual size of the file shouldn't be a problem ... but apparently there's a problem with the length of the conversion process ... ???

With the flash uploader the file was left alone for 24 hours. It never timed out and it never produced any errors on the page, but it never completed either. With the regular uploader the same thing happened, no errors but the file never appeared as having been uploaded. Since permissions are set to approve automatically, that shouldn't be an issue. Nothing in pending or disapproved either. The connection speed of the computer that's doing the uploading is very fast, 5mbps for uploading (40 mbps download speed). It's the fastest available bandwidth aside from commercial speeds.

This is a business site so there are no other groups or users and that's why the client felt he should be able to upload business related videos, even if they're quite large. Any thoughts on how to get that accomplished without too much hassle? Thankyou.

 Unfortunately not..

Now, with 7.1 and the new HTML5 player, our uploaded videos are converted using the .H264 process (which almost never will convert large files), the selection for this is in the Flash>Video module.

If you turn that feature off, you video will most likely process, but will not play in the HTML5 player.. it's frustrating for some with site that need to process large videos..

there are other post about the video conversion process back before 7.1

The only way I can get my site 7.1 site to convert a 1GB video file is to turn that encode feature off..

Thank you. My site is 7.0.9 though, and not 7.1 __ Hmmm, maybe I should have posted this under 7.0 instead, wasn't paying attention. I don't want to upgrade to version 7.1 if I don't absolutely have to. So are you saying that using large video files like that isn't even possible with 7.0.9 or is there something that I can do with that Dolphin version to make large videos work somehow?

that's even better, you can go ahead and turn off the .H264 in flash then..

read towards the bottom of this.

http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/What-s-your-max-video-.htm

That was a great help, thank you. I should probably increase the max execution time in the php.ini file as well. Can you tell me where to find that file? I have a vServer with rot access so once I know where the file is located, changing it shouldn't be a problem.

 Do you have WHM?

Or via SSH run> whereis php.ini