Videos not converting

I have been having this problem ever since I moved to a Debian server.  I upload a 2MB test file and it converts just fine. But if I upload a 19MB or 25MB video file, it gets stuck in "Processing" and never converts.... How do I debug this??  It's not a PHP upload size error that is set to 1,024MB as is post_max_size... and the "Maximal size of one file (in Megabytes)"  setting is set to 500

I really need this debugged and working ASAP... running ffmpeg.exe from SSH command line works just fine, so I'm really stumped as to what could be causing this...

If you are absolutely positive that your upload file size settings are correct, I would see if disabling the H264 codec will help.

You can do this by going to Admin Panel > Modules > Flash Apps > Video Player Settings and remove the checkmark that says 'use H264 codec.

Sometimes with it enabled, it can cause problems OR can cause extremely long conversion/processing times.

 how would this be related if it works for a 2MB file... is there any place i can debug and see what may be going wrong?

also extend your timeouts in php

Make these settings to your php.ini, I just didn't want to deal with errors for max issues.

nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

max_execution_time = 30

changed to

max_execution_time = 3000

max_input_time = 60

changed to

max_input_time = 6000

memory_limit = 8M

changed to

memory_limit = 512M

post_max_size = 8M

changed to

post_max_size = 1000M

upload_max_filesize = 8M

changed to

upload_max_filesize = 1000M

save and exit that file

those settings were all already set higher than that... it's not php related i am quite sure... it all worked fine on CentOS it completely stopped working properly when i changed to Debian which doesnt really make sense to me..

Well you could try looking over my setup, this is for my home server.

AlexT stated that the ffmpeg was the best part, so maybe there was a step missed.

http://www.boonex.com/n/this-is-what-i-did-to-get-d7-x-working-on-a-server

could it be related to suexec/suphp (no 777 needed)?

it appears as though the videos are just staying stuck in Processing mode and FFMPEG is not even getting triggered... it's not a php setting there are no banned functions or anything like that....