Forum Activity for @brian

Why does the video converter take so long?

Design and Skin Customization

Looks like the conversation moved to another thread:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/new_posts/57175/issue-with-video

Let's follow up there.

Issue with Video

Installation and Configuration

Yeah there's definitely something messing with this on your server - it could be that your PHP processes are limited in how long they can run for. I posted above that any errors are logged to the ACTIVITY LOG but I see you've posted no errors, so I assume there are NO errors in your activity log related to conversion? If there are none then it means the process is being killed by something on your server - outside of Jamroom.

gb.php?

Using Jamroom


Yep - ignore it

Why does the video converter take so long?

Design and Skin Customization

No - 4 hours is way too long - it's likely not even converting anymore and hasn't been for some time. Reset the worker and let it start over. Also - check your activity log. The converter is very good about logging any errors it encounters to the log.

NOTE: If you restart your web server in the middle of a conversion it will fail!

gb.php?

Using Jamroom

There is no "gb.php" file on your server - the blog module has a "default" view which gets loaded in it's place since it does not exist.

Why does the video converter take so long?

Design and Skin Customization

There's multiple answers to this question:

1) First of all, you need to turn down the max conversion workers. This should never be MORE than the number of CPUs in your server, and should likely be no more than 1/2 - so if you have 4 cores, set this to "2". If you have more workers than CPUs the workers will start to compete with each other for CPU time.

2) Setting conversion priority to "highest" is only going to get you a tiny bit faster - I'd recommend setting to "high" as the max. The problem here with it set to "highest" is that EACH worker is now going to try an use ALL processors on your server. Again this will lead to contention for CPU resources between your web server, database, the worker, and any other process running on your server. The only reason to ever use "highest" is if you have a LOT of CPUs or are running a dedicated cluster conversion server.

3) Video conversions are slow - period. There's no way to make them super fast - a 100mb input video is going to take quite a while to be converted to an MP4 version and an FLV version (based on your settings) - I would expect at LEAST 10 to 15 minutes, and that would be with very fast CPUs.

4) Conversion speed is heavily dependent on the CPU speed (higher is better), the amount of free Memory (RAM - more is better) and the speed of the underlying disk system (SSD is best). But even with a screaming fast server it's still going to take quite a bit if time to convert a 100mb video.

Issue with Video

Installation and Configuration

Look in your Activity Log - errors encountered will be logged there.

Working with files in form designer?

Off Topic

No - that's not possible. The "file" form designer field is for uploading files such as PDF's, text files, etc. Templates have to be parsed before they can be used, using either template function (i.e. {jrCore_include}) or the jrCore_parse_template() function.

profiletweaks

Design and Skin Customization

There's nothing in profile tweaks that allows them to change colors and stuff - sorry!

manually adding event coordinates ??

Genosis

GeoLite 2 is a subscription only service - Jamroom already supports it. You need to enter your Maxmind account information into the ACP -> Tools -> Geo Location -> Global Config area.

Let me know if that helps.