Optional Installs¶

FFMPEG_EXECUTABLE for audio/video file support¶

mdid3 uses ffmpeg to process audio & video media files. The current repo includes a windows installer, although a newer version may be available. Other platforms have to install the software and edit settings_local.py in order for a/v files to be processed.

The setting in settings.py is:

FFMPEG_EXECUTABLE = os.path.join(install_dir, 'dist', 'windows', 'ffmpeg', 'bin', 'ffmpeg.exe')

which won’t work on linux installations, naturally.

Linux admins should install ffmpeg if it isn’t installed and add the correct path (get with which ffmpeg) to settings_local.py, for example on RHEL/Centos:

FFMPEG_EXECUTABLE = '/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg'

Links to the latest version for most platforms covered in this guide can be found at http://ffmpeg.org/download.html

Installation on RHEL 5 & 6 can follow this guide if a yum package is not available for your specific version & architecture: http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/CentosCompilationGuide

PDF support¶

RHEL 5¶

To install gfx (for pdf thumbnails) for rhel5, (probably similar names on ubuntu) you need to -

Add the rpmforge repo (for lame)

sudo rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Get the dependencies:

yum install zlib-devel libjpeg-devel.x86_64 freetype-devel giflib-devel fftw3 lame zziplib

In a scratch/source/temp directory

 curl http://www.swftools.org/swftools-0.9.2.tar.gz -o swftools-0.9.2.tar.gz
Make, build, clean
tar -xzvf swftools-0.9.2.tar.gz
cd swftools-0.9.2
./configure
make
make install

And finally, move the .so files made during the build process in swftools-0.9.2/lib/python to your python site-packages directory:

sudo cp lib/python/\*.so /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/

Now this should work:

python -c 'import gfx'