How Do I... Add Large Video

wildweaselmi · May 27th, 2009, 02:57 PM

I have a 30 minute clip of my son graduating Pre-K and I would like to post it to my site but not sure how.

The logical choice is in the gallery (photopost) and I see that video is supported.

I first exported the movie as an .mp4 but I quickly realize its not the best format for "streaming" and that I should export it as a .mov with hinted streaming enabled. (So I am doing that now)

I tried to FTP the 300M file to /gallery/uploads and then click on Upload Photos and scrolled to the bottom (Admin Section) and entered the path /gallery/uploads/ and clicked Upload/Submit and it appeared to be working (no errors) but I don't see it anywhere and I would assume it would take a bit longer to import 300M video file. Of course this was all with the .mp4 so I zipped it thinking PhotoPost needed to see a .zip file and uploaded that to the same area and same results, then I thought it had to be in a subdirectory like /gallery/uploads/1/ so I moved both files to the subdirectory with the same results.

I haven't tested with .mov but figured while I wait for this monster movie to be created I would post the question.

Chuck S · May 27th, 2009, 03:19 PM

Well if you have allow multimedia uploads turned on and your ftping the file. try ftping it to the uploads/1 folder which should be your uploads folder and simply hit skip upload and process files in your uploads folder checkbox and hit submit

wildweaselmi · May 27th, 2009, 03:20 PM

Does it matter the format? .mp4, .mov, wmv, .swf, etc..

Chuck S · May 27th, 2009, 03:32 PM

whatever formats you want to process need to be listed under allowable multimedia types in upload options in admin.

wildweaselmi · May 27th, 2009, 03:38 PM

Sounds good, I will give it a shot. Thank You for your quick reply and continued support

Chuck S · May 27th, 2009, 03:44 PM

glad to assist if you need anything else let me know

wildweaselmi · May 27th, 2009, 09:04 PM

Finally finished compressing the movie into a .mov file and uploaded it to /gallery/uploads/1/ and imported it.

All I saw was Quicktime Movie thumbnail (which I know i can update). For some reason clicking on the Quicktime Movie would not launch the movie.

I am wondering if the file is just too big to play through the Gallery (more then 100M but less then 200M)

I'm retrying another compression technic (Fast Start versus Hinting for streaming settings)

Chuck S · May 27th, 2009, 09:38 PM

You also have set to play multimedia in showphoto options? It could be whatever compression your using or how your making it which prevents it from playing sure.

wildweaselmi · May 28th, 2009, 07:04 AM

Okay, I finally have the perfect compression setting for streaming my video over the internet.

I have it as a .mov file which is an acceptable multimedia file in Photopost.

I have verified that embedding multimedia is allowed.

I have confirmed that I can play the movie from the link that Photopost provides.

But it won't play inside photopost. I have searched all options for "play" and nothing is found to reference playing the movies.

I'm sure I am doing something wrong.

As a side note, I did learn that you can not bulk upload (ftp a file to the gallery/1/ folder) if you have flash upload enabled. Once I turned that off then the option displayed for me to "Skip upload and process the files already in your upload directory"

Chuck S · May 28th, 2009, 10:12 AM

It might be the size of the file that makes it unplayable in the embedded player but I did not write the quicktime plugin so I am not too sure all I can do is quess.

if the file is processed and shown and you can download it and it works then photopost is configured and working correctly.

Does smaller videos upload and play in your player?