How do you make this thing work?

[Ace25]

Ok, been a week straight. Support has been no help what so ever. All I ever get is "I will need to speak with a developer about that" whenever I ask a question... So I figured why not ask here even though by the looks of things this place isn't updated all that often either.

Here is my situation.
I purchased FlixEngine for Linux. I have a webserver running CentOS. I installed all the prereq's and then installed FlixEngine successfully....

So now what? I have no clue what is supposed to happen next and it appears neither does tech support. When I ask how it is supposed to function I get the run around. Obviously by other peoples post on here it does work.. but how? I have tried all the test scripts and nothing seems to happen. I can get the Flix2_sample.php to load, I input a .avi file I uploaded, and click the button and all I get is process_sample.php version 1.2
Loading flix: flixengine2.php on a white screen and thats it.

The only tip I received from tech support was to add this after starting the engine so it looks like this: /etc/init.d/flixengine start --logfile /tmp/flixd.log --loglevel 3 to create logs of any errors.. problem is, I haven't seen a single log file from this.

Can anyone help or point me to a guide (as their home page makes it incredibly difficult to find any type of support/docs) that can show me what I am supposed to be doing?

Thanks!

[jbarros]

well, I've only used the CLI, but you must specify an output file somewhere. Check to see where it's trying to write the output file and go from there.

-- James

[skwerl]

you still there? i had this problem and solved it...
the problem is it's not including flixengine2.php, because its location (mine is in /usr/lib/php/) is probably not defined as an include path in php.ini.
so i changed the flix2_sample.php (and process_sample.php) script like so:

include ('/usr/lib/php/flixengine2.php'); // full path to engine
$prefix = "/var/www/html/"; // webroot
$indir = $prefix."conv_in/"; // folder full of videos
$outdir = $prefix."conv_out/"; // output folder, be sure to check for write permissions!
$overlaydir = $prefix."conv_overlay/";

a "better" but more time consuming solution is detailed here:
http://www.on2.com/support-resources/on2-flix-faq/enginefaq-linux/#2-2

this almost got it working... my it guy had to make sure the conversion daemon was running ok. after he took care of that, the flix2_sample.php started converting video fine.