😭 for nearly a year i've had nothing but problems uploading videos to my instance. about 25% of the time it would work after a dozen retries. other times it would fail completely.
i knew it had something to do with ffmpeg, but upgrading ffmpeg to the latest version made no difference.
painful lessons learned:
/live/app/models/media_attachment.rb (line 101) - 'loglevel' => 'fatal' can be changed to 'verbose' to reveal more output from the sidekiq log
while it is true you have the latest version of ffmpeg installed, no one promised that mastodon would see it
i had a ten-year-old ffmpeg 2.x install lurking in /opt/local that mastodon was using, and completely ignoring my more recent version, all thanks to an errant PATH in my ancient bash_profile 😩
@vga256 Can you send your post to the .social admins? 😄 Their problem is probably the load but what you wrote accurately describes my experience posting videos.
Useless to send to .social admins. They admin and moderate the .social website. (yes, I know, there is some dev crossover, same people, two hats.😉 )
Best, if someone wants to have an issue dealt with to notify devs, is to do so on GitHub where the devs and troubleshooting community are, filed under issues or discussions.
With that said, I am doublechecking my paths, esp old config files. 😂
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