upgrade 7.0.4 directly to 7.1.4 possible?

is it possible to upgrade from 7.0.4 to 7.1.4 directly? or do i need to go through different incremental upgrades?

Not that I am aware of unless someone else has figured out a way to by-pass all the upgrades. You wouldn't have to do the beta versions though. Oh, and before you did anything, if you have custom mods, you will need to make sure those are 7.1.4 compatible and do a backup BEFORE and after (optional) each upgrade is done and verified working.

Here are the upgrades and paths. At 7.0.6, you have a few to do :) 

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/Dol7Upgrade

One approach would be to install 7.1.4 and hire someone to migrate the data and files, database,  from the 7.0.4 site.  Not sure how much this would cost and what the issues might be.

i'm the one that was hired to do it. was just wondering it was possible to make the big leap or have to go through the steps. it appears there are 10 incremental upgrades from 7.0.4 to 7.1.4 not including betas. will get started that way then i suppose

To be clear, you don't need to upgrade to the beta releases.  The Dolphin 7.0.9-7.1.0 patch is a cumulative one - it includes the beta releases.  But as mentioned above, you do need to upgrade to each individual release.

after upgrading everything seems nice except the videos all say "file not found" when i go to Play them... did it delete all my video files???

im also getting this error emailed to me alot

Database error in **********.com

Query:

SELECT * FROM `sys_objects_member_info` WHERE `object` = ''

Mysql error: Table '*******.sys_objects_member_info' doesn't exist

Found error in the file '/var/www/vhosts/**********/public_html/inc/classes/BxDolMemberInfoQuery.php' at line 27.
Called 'getRow' function with erroneous argument #0.

It shouldn't have; those files are not part of Dolphin.  It may be the link got broken in the database.  Go to the directory for the video files and see if they are there.

Check db to ensure the table sys_objects_member_info exists, if not then figure out why it's not there and what data should be in it.

the files are still there. when i test a new upload, that video plays just fine, and the file is same format and in same folder as the ones before it... but all other videos will not play "file not found" is all it says. i did some debugging into get_file.php and function smartReadFile() and it seems these previous videos are in fact NOT returning 404 errors, but the player just keeps saying not found... im confused :S

nevermind. they were flv files i had to make some adjustments. they work now