Topic: Development / Creating Formats

Awesome, Bruno! Thanks! Going to run some tests now. :)

Topic: Development / Creating Formats

That’s not quite what I mean. I can’t always know what the original size is, but I know I always want 480 wide out and I want to respect the aspect ratio. The system would interpolate the height based on the file’s aspect ratio.

It seems I would have to create a new format on the fly for each video.

Topic: Development / Creating Formats

Is it possible to create a format which keeps the aspect ratio of the raw file? That is, regardless of aspect ratio, could I give it a maximum height and then the system determines the width based on the aspect ratio of the raw file.

Topic: Development / Amazon S3

Working on implementing this stuff now. Thanks for the hard work, Bruno.

Topic: Development / Amazon S3

Right, our buckets would be created not for each upload, but for the different competitions we hold. The buckets would be pre-existing, so it shouldn’t be too much of a worry.

We are looking at maybe 10 buckets total into which the videos would be saved based on what competition they are for.

Topic: Development / Amazon S3

I can understand how that would be complex. We are discussing now if we really need different buckets for different files.

At any rate, we can build a page that parses the XML for the videoid and then post back a job request. That gives us a little more control, too, so it may be a better idea.

Thanks for all of you help!

Topic: Development / Amazon S3

That’s really all that is needed. It’s a pretty straight-forward and simple system to use. We host all of our video there and it’s been great.

I would suggest now that there should be the ability to automatically transfer any encoded video to S3.

To do that easily, have just the access key and secret key in the account settings. Let the external upload API set the correct bucket as you have done with filename. That way, my system could tell HW what the bucket should be dynamically as well as the filename. Then, the user uploads a video and it is encoded automatically and automatically transferred to the specified bucket at S3 with no intervention from my system past the initial upload.

I’ll think more on it, but I think you pretty much have it down pat.

Topic: Development / Amazon S3

Are there any plans to allow automatic moving of encoded videos to Amazon’s S3 service? We are building a system on our side to do this now, but it would be awesome if it was handled directly from HeyWatch.

Topic: Issues / Auto-encode and FTP

Awesome. I am testing this now as well.

Topic: Feedbacks / Upload Filenames

Thanks Bruno. I am testing it now.

I am impressed with the response and appreciate your hard work.

Topic: Feedbacks / Upload Filenames

It would be nice if the Upload API would allow the uploading system to specify a filename for both the raw video to be saved and the encoded video. The issue is that if/when the files are FTPed back to my server, the possibility of them having the same filenames means that some may get overwritten.

Topic: Issues / FTP User Problem

That works perfectly. Thanks!

Topic: Issues / FTP User Problem

I am trying to use the auto FTP function but my FTP username looks like “heywatch@host.com” and the form tells me that my ftp path is invalid when I use this user name. An example is: ftp://heywatch@host.com:password@host.com:21/

Topic: Development / Getting Video ID

How does one get the VideoID of a video which has just been uploaded via the API? So, my user uploads his video directly to HW via a form on my site. I want to show him an encode link, but I need to know the VideoID for that video. How do I find it out if there are several other raw videos which have been uploaded by other users?

Topic: Issues / Auto-encode and FTP

Aahhh, so uploading my videos won’t do it. Is there any work to make the auto-encode happen for all videos?

Topic: Issues / Ajax Upload

I had the redirect working, but I was hoping to use the finish method and be able to create the “encode” link right there in the same page. Basically, I was expecting it to work just like it works on HeyWatch’s own site.

Thanks for the help!

Topic: Issues / Ajax Upload

I am using the Ajax Upload. The problem I have is that when the upload is complete, the “finish” method seems to not get triggered. Instead, the browser seems to want to direct to “http://heywatch.com/upload?upload_id=UPLOAD_ID” which is the action on the form. Instead, the Ajax should catch the finish state and call the finish method.

I am using the code almost directly from the wiki.

Topic: Issues / Auto-encode and FTP

I have set the options for my account to auto-encode the videos I upload. I also have the settings for auto-ftp setup as well. However, when I transfer a video, the encoding process never starts and then the FTP process does not start.