Panda dashboard - Upload a test video

[spezam]

Hi guys,
I followed the 'Installing Panda locally' documentation to deploy a
local version of Panda on my linux machine.
I used the filesystem storage option and also emulate SimpleDB
locally.

I managed to populate the simpleDB database with all the profiles and
to access the web interface.

The problem is, when I click on 'Upload a test video' no form is
popping up, only a blank page with a button that says "Continue to
upload form".
I would like to test the transcoding from there before starting to
integrate with the API.

Do you have any idea why this happens?

thanks,
Matteo

[Martyn Loughran]

Matteo,

That's expected. After clicking that button you should be redirected
to the upload form. If you don't check the url - if it's got something
like #<UUID:0x510658> in the url you've hit a little bug with the
incompatible versions of the UUID gem.

sudo gem uninstall uuid
sudo gem install uuid -v 1.0.4

will get you running.

I'm just going to push a fix to this if you wait a moment.

Apart from this did the install instructions work ok for linux? I only
tested locally so if there are any niggles do let me know!

Martyn

[spezam]

Martyn,
thanks for the quick answer. I tried to uninstall and install the gem
you mentioned but I still have the same problem.
The page I'm redirected is
http://spark:99/videos/new
but the form seems incomplete.

About the instructions, I tried them on a Linux Centos 5.2
installation and was bit of a pain.
Had to compile ruby and rubygems because the repository version was
too old.
Also I had to compile and install Python 2.5 in a different folder
(otherwise yum stops working) because of the SimpleDB emulator.

Still, I'm not to the bit where I can say everything is working fine.

If you're interested I can write down some notes as soon as I finish,
so you can include in the documentation.

We're trying to deploy this solution and test it against a big
project. We would like to get rid of the third party transcoding
provider we're using for video and audio (we already have our internal
solution for images).

.m.

[spezam]

Martyn,
sorry I was in the wrong form page, now I can see the transcoding
form.

I'm trying to run some transcoding jobs but the status is always
'Queued'. All I can see from the console is:

merb : worker (port 4001) ~ Started request handling: Fri Oct 17
12:37:14 -0400 2008
merb : worker (port 4001) ~ Params: {"format"=>nil,
"action"=>"upload", "iframe"=>"true", "id"=>"c12e2020-7e97-012b-
b9c8-001ec9ff8581", "controller"=>"videos", "file"=>{"size"=>1243134,
"content_type"=>"video/x-ms-wmv",
"filename"=>"GTI_UnpimpYourRide_Catapult_123_456_123_165_456_723_123_343_fdasfdfasfasdsa.wmv",
"tempfile"=>#<File:/tmp/Merb20081017-5384-1f2euwi-0>}, "X-Progress-
ID"=>"c12e2020-7e97-012b-b9c8-001ec9ff8581"}
merb : worker (port 4001) ~ c12e2020-7e97-012b-b9c8-001ec9ff8581:
Reading metadata of video file
merb : worker (port 4001) ~
{:dispatch_time=>0.070163, :after_filters_time=>2.0e-05, :action_time=>0.054325, :before_filters_time=>1.7e-05}
merb : worker (port 4001) ~

merb : worker (port 4001) ~ Started request handling: Fri Oct 17
12:37:15 -0400 2008
merb : worker (port 4001) ~ Params: {"format"=>nil, "action"=>"done",
"id"=>"c12e2020-7e97-012b-b9c8-001ec9ff8581", "controller"=>"videos"}
merb : worker (port 4001) ~
{:dispatch_time=>0.017544, :after_filters_time=>1.0e-05, :action_time=>0.017134, :before_filters_time=>0.016776}
merb : worker (port 4001) ~



Any idea what I should check?

.m.






On Oct 17, 5:31 pm, spezam <spe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Martyn,
> thanks for the quick answer. I tried to uninstall and install the gem
> you mentioned but I still have the same problem.

> The page I'm redirected ishttp://spark:99/videos/new

[Martyn Loughran]

Getting close! Looks like you haven't started the encoder. You'll need
to start that in a different terminal

merb -r lib/encoder.rb

[spezam]

mmmh, now I get an exception

root@spark /usr/local/www/panda $ merb -r lib/encoder.rb
Loading init file from /usr/local/www/panda/config/init.rb
Loading /usr/local/www/panda/config/environments/development.rb
~ Parent pid: 5544
~ Compiling routes...
./config/aws.rb:2: warning: already initialized constant BASE_PATH
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-0.9.9/lib/merb-core/rack/adapter/
runner.rb:21: undefined local variable or method `lib' for main:Object
(NameError)

[Martyn Loughran]

Oh - if you've checked out the master branch the encoder moved to
bin/encoder.rb. Is that it?

[spezam]

Great, that was the problem.

Now need to do some testing with some videos and check the results.

Thanks
.m.