Media Preview Configuration in Alfresco
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Media Preview 1 in Alfresco Share

Environment : Alfresco 3.4D, Windows Server 2008

Installation and Configuration Steps:

1. Download file media-preview.jar
http://code.google.com/p/share-extras/downloads/detail?name=media-preview-0.2.jar&can=2&q=

2. Create lib directory in "tomcat/shared" directory, so the directory structure will be like this : tomcat/shared/lib

3. Copy "media-preview.jar" to "tomcat/shared/lib" directory

4. Install FFmpeg on Windows, adjust whether you use 32 bit or 64 bit installer.
http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

5. On "alfresco-global.properties" file, add this line:

ffmpeg.exe=C:\Program Files\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe
ffmpeg.base=C:\Program Files\FFmpeg

6. To add the log content for this, add this configuration on file "webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties" :

log4j.logger.org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExec=debug
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.content.transform=debug
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.thumbnail=debug

7. Restart Alfresco

8. Login to Alfresco Share

Environment : Alfresco 3.4D, Centos 5

Langkah-langkah instalasi dan konfigurasi:

1. Download file media-preview.jar
http://code.google.com/p/share-extras/downloads/detail?name=media-preview-0.2.jar&can=2&q=

2. Create lib directory in "tomcat/shared" directory, so the directory structure will be like this : tomcat/shared/lib

3. Copy file media-preview.jar to "tomcat/shared/lib"

4. Install FFmpeg with x264, installation steps:

-    Download x264-snapshot-20110817-2245
-    Chmod +x x264-snapshot-20110817-2245
-    cd x264-snapshot-20110817-2245
-    ./configure --enable-shared
-    ./configure --disable-asm
-    make
-    make install
-    ldconfig

-    yum install subversion
-    svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
-    cd ffmpeg/
-    ./configure --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --enable-shared --disable-yasm
-    make
-    make install
-    ldconfig
-    whereis ffmpeg

5. In alfresco-global.properties add:

### FFMPEG
ffmpeg.exe=/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

6. To add the log content for this, add this configuration on file "webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties" :

log4j.logger.org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExec=debug
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.content.transform=debug
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.thumbnail=debug

7. Restart Alfresco


8. Login to Alfresco
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Reference:
http://code.google.com/p/share-extras/wiki/MediaPreviews

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