Video Components

The Video Component allows you to place a video element on a page. (Note that for proper transcoding to occur, you must install FFmpeg separately; see below.)

If you drag and drop the Video Component from the sidekick to a region on a page, then doubleclick the component, a dialog will appear:

To configure the component, drag a video asset onto the drop zone (indicated by the dotted lines).

The video's native size (width x height in pixels) will appear in the boxes next to Size (see above). Manually enter width and height dimensions here if you wish to override the video's native dimensions.

Click OK to dismiss the dialog.

The Video Component relies on the third-party open-source product FFmpeg for proper transcoding of videos that can be downloaded from http://ffmpeg.org/.

On Windows:

1. Download compiled binary as ffmpeg.zip

2. Unzip to a folder

3. Set system environment variable PATH to <<your-ffmpeg-location>>\bin

4. Restart CQ

On Mac OS X:

1. Install Xcode  (http://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/xcode.html)

2. Install X11 (see "Optional Installs" on the Snow Leopard DVD)

3. Install MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/)

4. Run sudo port install ffmpeg in the console and follow the instructions

Note that FFmpeg needs to be in PATH so CQ5 can pick it up via command line.

Using the precompiled version for OS X 10.6:

1. Dowload the precompiled version

2. Extract it to the /usr/local directory

3. From terminal, sudo ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/0.6/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg