hi, guys. I have one question about auto-encode. First let me describe briefly what I want to accomplish:

I have an app that accept user upload, convert the video, and save it in s3. So I use heywatch api. First I transfer the video to heywatch in an upload form. And then having another action(I’m using rails) invoke the Job api to convert the video, adding a logo and upload it to s3, finally notice my server. Everything works good. Now I suddenly figured out that heywatch can auto-encode the uploaded file(Sorry, I didn’t see the doc very well). So my question is whether I can set encoding parameters when uploading the video, so that the auto-encode process can pick up those parameters and use those while encoding the video. Thanks

Snow

Will Discover api do the magic?

Ok, after some digging around the forum and api, I now figure out that I can do that directly in the upload form, cool. However, there is still one thing I want to do: I assign s3_directive in the upload form, but I want to name the encoded video the same as filename returned by encode video callback xml. So I am expecting something like this: s3_directive: ‘s3://key:secret@mybucket/videos/some_hash/filename’ How can can do that? What should I set in s3_directive to let it use my customized name + encoded filename to form my s3 file name? Thanks

You shouldn’t put the s3_directive in the upload form for obvious security reason. You should stick with your first solution:

• Upload the file to HeyWatch via the upload form
• Receive the ping after transfer
• Create the job with the parameter s3_directive with custom name

There is no easy solution to give the same filename like that. You have two choices:

• You set the filename at the upload form via the parameter “title”, so the encoded video will have the same filename
• At the job request, generate the filename randomly

Hi, Bruno. It is clear, thanks for the response.