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[SOLVED] Videos5: Can't encode videos - permissions error

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:35 am
by cweydig
eI've just reinstalled Fedora 14 and the HDA, and things are going very smoothly this time around, except for one thing...

When I attempt to encode movies in Videos5, I get the following:
Can't encode all videos.
apache user can't write in the following directory:
/var/hda/files/movies
I had fixed this on my last install by setting the chown of that folder to apache:apache, but then I couldn't get access to the folder. I'd like to fix it correctly this time (last time I just tried without asking first... and since I'm quite the newbie, that was silly of me)...

There aren't any errors in the log.

Re: [SOLVED] Videos5: Can't encode videos - permissions err

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:43 am
by cweydig
In case anyone else is looking...

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chmod 777 [path to your movies share]

Re: [SOLVED] Videos5: Can't encode videos - permissions err

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:00 pm
by radioz
I don't use Videos5, but another solution would have been to sudo chown apache:user <path>. This avoids making it writable by anybody (only those that are members of the 'user' group).

Glad you got it working.