[media_server] Some minor issues

[cdondrup]

Some quick feedback after trying the web interface, copied from here: strands-project/aaf_deployment#20 (comment)

• Having to click upload after choosing the file seems redundant. Just automatic upload after choosing it would be nice.
• I can only select single files, being able to select multiple and then automatically upload them would be great.
• I uploaded music but it doesn't show in the options for creating a music set.
• Images are autorotated to landscape
• downloading creates a file with the internal id instead of the filename. 54fd79cecd82ea7718a53014.mp4 is not a really speaking name.

[nilsbore]

I'm also having some troubles. I uploaded a few music files to the webpage. When I query for all Music sets using the python interface I get (u'aaf_walking_group', 8, ObjectId('54fd8eed71ad041b160dce7e')), which looks correct. However, when I want to get the files in that set via mc.get_set("Music/aaf_walking_group"), I get this error: bson.errors.InvalidId: Music/aaf_walking_group is not a valid ObjectId. Any ideas?

[cburbridge]

You need to do mc.get_set("54fd8eed71ad041b160dce7e"), which is the id you found for that set. There are a lot of improvements that could be made to this clumsy API :-)

[nilsbore]

But if you look at the guide: https://github.com/strands-project/strands_ui/tree/hydro-devel/mongodb_media_server and the API it looks like you should be able to get it both ways?

[cburbridge]

Sorry, I wrote that imagining that I would go back and add that call later but have not done yet. I'll add it to the list of improvments, but can't do it today...

[nilsbore]

Ok, thanks. I'm able to get what I want now.

[cdondrup]

Are there in news on the issues I mentioned, @cburbridge? Still cannot create a music collection because it does not show me the music files I uploaded.

[nilsbore]

@cdondrup It works for me. Does the files not show at all? I think you need to create a music set and when you click it you can see the files which are available to add.

[cdondrup]

[nilsbore]

Hmm, weird... I get them there in the second screen. Maybe it's some weirdness with the filenames.

[cdondrup]

Tried renaming and re-encoding as wave files... Nothing works. Problem is that I cannot test the system if there are no music files in the media collections. I'll try adding some manually for now.

[marc-hanheide]

Just tried myself... I don't see music files when creating a playlist. @cburbridge

[cburbridge]

Sorry missed this. How are you running/hosting the media_server ?