Help me test my latest project

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Firstly, note to mods, I'm hoping this is ok as for now it's just a proof of concept, personal challenge, testbed for ideas however there is a possibility it may become a commercial project in the future.

I'm really looking for some kind people to bombard the system with files (preferably videos - especially windows media and quicktime), to report any bugs and to give general feedback on how the system works.

The site currently represents around 10 hours work including configuring the server from scratch - it's running on PHP5 and MySQL 5. I'd say it's around 10% complete but I'm itching to get some feedback, hence this thread. Tomorrow I'll be adding a direct download link for the original unmolested file to the 'view' page. Eventually users will be able to sign up to track, delete, modify their files, upload by FTP, etc, etc.

Without further ado, I present www.filevend.com :).
 
I've only got one .wmv that is currently won't convert (after a good hour playing with different versions) which I'm now going to upload to youtube to see if they know something I don't ;).
 
They both seem ok to me. I should point out that it can take anything upto 5 minutes for an uploaded video to be viewable.

Is anyone finding the videos don't play in IE? I can only recreate the issue on one machine at the moment.

Thanks to everyone who has uploaded :).
 
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If you try to play the video as soon as you upload it, it'll probably stop half way through or not play at all. The videos are encoded in the background and can take a good few minutes to complete. Tomorrow I'll add something to stop users visiting before the videos are ready :).
 
Do you mean there was no confirmation screen? Perhaps it timed out (I'll look into that) but if you didn't get the confirmation screen, where did you get the URL from?

It didn't even occur to me to escape user input since the files aren't publically browsable (yet!). I'll add that to the ever growing list.

Thanks :).

I'm in the DC later this evening so I can test it myself with some properly large files. It gets a bit tedious over ADSL ;).
 
I've already removed that :).

The current upload page is only temporary. On another site I developed which relies heavily on large file uploads I implemented a 3rd party Java frontend which made form posts to the server. This gave a nice file browser, queueing system and progress bar but was very 'clunky'. I'm going to try to create/purchase/steal ;) something in flash this time round offering the plain HTML upload as a backup.
 
Lots more work done today. I think I've addressed all of the issues raised in this thread so far. Some of the files on the 'browse' page are being re-encoded and thumbnailed in the background so might not be available for an hour or so.

More uploads would be appreciated if anyone has the time - the more obscure the better. I've got a surprisingly limited collection of video files.

Thanks everyone :).
 
Yup, already on the to do list.

I'm not sure your .mov has encoded properly - I'll have a look tomorrow.

Thanks for your help. :)
 
Fixed your .mov, we were missing an audio codec. Very useful test file, thankyou :).
 
If you're uploading from the US, you might not be getting a fantastic transfer rate. It could be simply timing out. Was your browser still sending out data when you gave up?

I'm assuming people will use the FTP upload for the really big stuff :).
 
You can if you like but anything over the 2GB limit won't actually generate an error, it'll just dump you back to the main page. Perhaps that's what happened but the button should have reverted to its previous status instead of staying as 'uploading...'

Could you perhaps try a 1.5GB file? That would be a more useful test as the system would then have to deal with it without imploding ;).
 
Doesn't seem to allow upload using Opera.
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Thanks. Is there an error message?

BillytheImpaler, I'm guessing it was you that uploaded that 500MB Star Trek spoof. The CPU is still maxed out encoding it. I guess I'm going to need a dedicated encoding box if I'm to allow files this large ;).
 
I think we've screwed up the aspect ratio a bit though ;). I'm going to do something about that later - I need to add something to my perl script to grab the dimensions of the original from the ffmpeg output then calculate the proper dimensions for the new file.
 
Aspect ratios sorted (I think :p). Thumbnails/links for forums/websites added. Various other bugs fixed. Around 30% complete now I'd say. Thanks again everyone for your help with testing :).
 
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