FastCGI Error The FastCGI Handler was unable to process the request. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Error Details: The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly Error Number: -2147467259 (0x80004005). Error Description: Unspecified error HTTP Error 500 - Server Error. Internet Information Services (IIS)

This sounds pretty terminal, our server was down and we could no longer use moodle. I hadn't changed any settings in php.ini. What had happened was I had manually cleared the php.log file sitting in C:/temp/ without the log file it no longer wanted to serve webpages...(?!). restoring that file, brought the server back up.

Other moodle 2.2 missing features

Moodle 2.x no longer uses the section anchors that were present in 1.9  For example

Take me to <a href="#sectionblock-1">Course Materal</a>

<a name="sectionblock-1"> the page anchor it links to
used to link to the first section block.  We've had to recode several sections to add our own anchors, which is a little annoying

Moodle 2 CRON issues

We upgraded from 1.9 to 2.2 and our CRON tasks stopped working.  It turned out that we should have use php-cgi.exe and NOT php-win.exe

get_iplayer hd and convert to avi

get the video:
get_iplayer --vmode=flashhigh --pid ####### --force

converting flash video with ffmpeg, first get a terminal to the folder with the .flvs in it.  Then run the following:

//this copies


ffmpeg -i "Sing2.flv" -vcodec copy "Sing2.avi"


//this converts


ffmpeg -i "Sing2.flv" "Sing2.avi"     


//this copies


ffmpeg -vcodec copy -acodec copy -i INPUT.flv OUTPUT.mp4