Image Uploading?

[Christopher Redinger]

Is there any plan to add image uploading to Panda?

Panda is very similar to a solution I wrote to handle our image and
video uploads but I'm moving to Panda rather than continuing to
maintain my own for video processing. However I'm trying to figure out
how I want to handle images going forward.

[Damien Tanner]

Interestingly I had a conversation about this very thought earlier
today. In my opinion, video and images are very different things. With
video you want a nice upload progress bar, need ffmpeg compiled and
because video takes so long to transcode; a good queueing system.
Images are relativly quick to transform.

I think there's space for another solution just for images. Something
that runs on ec2 and accepts image uploads, then when you do a request
you can specify the dimentions and it does it on the fly and then
caches it.

That being said. Please do fork Panda and start adding images support
if you need it. It may well be that a lot of people are after the
feature!!!

Kind Regards,
Damien Tanner
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On 13 Oct 2008, at 19:57, Christopher Redinger <redi...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Jay Adair]

Cheeky plug, but depending upon what you want, have a look at one of my ventures:

http://motoprofessional.com - we could license that tech to you.

Jay

2008/10/13 Damien Tanner <dam...@new-bamboo.co.uk>

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Yours,

Jay Adair

[Christopher Redinger]

On Oct 13, 6:40 pm, Damien Tanner <dam...@new-bamboo.co.uk> wrote:
> Interestingly I had a conversation about this very thought earlier  
> today. In my opinion, video and images are very different things. With  
> video you want a nice upload progress bar, need ffmpeg compiled and  
> because video takes so long to transcode; a good queueing system.  
> Images are relativly quick to transform.
>
> I think there's space for another solution just for images. Something  
> that runs on ec2 and accepts image uploads, then when you do a request  
> you can specify the dimentions and it does it on the fly and then  
> caches it.

I totally agree with these statements. It's one of the things I've
been struggling with our architecture. The practical argument against
two solutions in our case (and probably others') is paying for 2 EC2
instances when 1 can suffice. Not a huge cost I know, but from the
business point of view "It's just uploading files" :)

[greener]

There is not much of an api posted for integration purposes, but you
may look at http://gomediaplug.com/ . it also lives on ec2 and
handles images. best, rg