README

Transcoder plugin for Craft CMS 4.x

Transcode video & audio files to various formats, and provide video thumbnails

Note: The license fee for this plugin is $59.00 via the Craft Plugin Store.

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 5.0.0 or later.

Installation

To install Transcoder, follow these steps:

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    cd /path/to/project
   

2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    composer require nystudio107/craft-transcoder
   

3. Install the plugin via ./craft install/plugin transcoder via the CLI, or in the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Transcoder.

You can also install Transcoder via the Plugin Store in the Craft Control Panel.

Transcoder works on Craft 4.x.

You will also need ffmpeg installed for Transcoder to work. On Ubuntu 16.04, you can do just:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

To install ffmpeg on Centos 6/7, you can follow the guide How to Install FFmpeg on CentOS

If you have managed hosting, contact your sysadmin to get ffmpeg installed.

Documentation

Click here -> Transcoder Documentation

Transcoder Roadmap

Some things to do, and ideas for potential features:

• Add a console command for doing encodings via console
• Figure out a way to reliably do multi-pass video encoding
• Add audio normalization via loudnorm http://k.ylo.ph/2016/04/04/loudnorm.html

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