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Bounty: Video acquisition via url
State: obtaining balance
| Value | 350.00 | ||
| Pledged | 350.00 | 100% | |
| Paid | 350.00 | 100% |
| User | Pledge | % | Paid | Due | Abandoned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| chbn | 350.00 | 100 | 350.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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Task description
The video field in OpenPackage Video should optionally allow the user to specify a url for the video to be acquired from instead of uploading the video directly.
The url would be interrogated during field validation so that the users can be notified immediately if there is a problem. The file would then be acquired during cron before being transcoded.
Currently, if the user has a url for the video they can do one of two things:
- Download the video to their local machine and then upload it via the op_video video field. This is much more time consuming than is necessary as broadband connection speeds are considerably slower than direct server to server connections, especially for upload.
- If the user has the correct administrative access to the site, they can pull the video onto the server using a utility like wget and then insert the video into a node using the op_video filepath interface.
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