Attempting to upload a video that succeeds on website but fails on Chunked Video API

grales · 2016-03-02T16:05:05.925Z

Hi all,

Got another head scratcher here. I’ve got an MP4 video that uploads fine on native Twitter (via twitter.com) – https://snd-staging.s3.amazonaws.com/6b8cf261-dffc-11e5-886f-4f6f38c83520.mp4

However, when we try to upload it (via the chunked media/upload endpoint) and send it as a media_id via the API, it fails, with the API firing back “media parameter is invalid”. I’ve tried both our own code and the code that @rchoi was kind enough to write on a post a while back @ http://django-rest-apis.herokuapp.com/media

As far as I can tell, the video meets all the specs expected of it, and the fact that native Twitter accepts it leads me to believe it’s not an encoding issue. Am I missing something? Thanks!

Eric

tushar_io · 2016-03-03T00:01:21.588Z

@grales Your video file is failing because it exceeds max allowed resolution. See https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/uploading-media for video specifications that we support.

grales · 2016-03-03T14:20:26.389Z

Thanks @tushargj – the weird part is that it uploads fine via twitter.com. Does the native Twitter website automatically downscale videos?

grales · 2016-03-03T14:26:54.607Z

@tushargj here’s a tweet with that same video that I posted via twitter.com: https://twitter.com/352Eric/status/705398896458072064

tushar_io · 2016-03-07T17:27:09.107Z

@grales Yes. Twitter native clients downscale video. We are going to make that functionality available to everyone.

tushar_io · 2016-03-07T17:27:18.031Z

tushar_io · 2016-03-14T17:37:14.087Z

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