To get working on our debugging, I copied the video files to the virtual machine using a USB stick, which turned out to be very slow and laborious.

I did not have time to resolve the error, as I needed to look at problems found with video encoding. A second attempt yielded the same result.

However, I got an error when trying to install the Extensions. To try it out, I opted to install the Extensions for the one month trial period. Then, I discovered that I would have to buy a licence, to use the Extensions beyond the trial period, as only VirtualBox itself is open source. To enable this, I had to install the VirtualBox Extensions. My first thought was to use Virtual Box’s file sharing feature. I needed to copy the source video to my VirtualBox virtual machine. Initially, I copied the data onto the Windows host from a memory stick. To facilitate debugging some problems with encoding large video files using open source software running on Linux, I decided to run the encoding software on a virtual machine.

Send files to virtualbox