I am using the YouTube API to upload videos chunk by chunk (see the code below). However, the upload sometimes fails with larger files (+1GB), but not always. The upload is shown to be complete but only a couple of minutes can be played and the rest is truncated. I did some research but with no apparent success. My question(s) now:
- Is there a possibility to contact YouTube directly (seeing logs of what's really going on)?
- Is this some encoding issue?
- Can the error be caught/detected via the API (at the moment, no exception is thrown)
- Can this happen if you are uploading different videos at once (in parallel, that is) ?
- Has anyone else encountered this issue?
Any help/lead in the right direction is much appreciated. I'd even call out a bounty of 500 points as this is driving me crazy (just done that...)
Appendix: The script is run on a command line, through a Gearman Server, with set_time_limit(0); set. The code/function is just an extract (and runs great with smaller files, sometimes even up to 10GB).
EDIT: According to aergistal's and GeorgeQ's comments above, I have changed the while loop to read chunks directly (no feof() anymore) and save the status to the database.
/*
Uploads one file to youtube chunk by chunk
*/
function uploadFile($dbfile) {
$client = $this->client;
$youtube = new Google_Service_YouTube($client);
$htmlBody = "";
try {
// Create a snippet with title, description, tags and category ID
// Create an asset resource and set its snippet metadata and type.
// This example sets the video's title, description, keyword tags, and
// video category.
$snippet = new Google_Service_YouTube_VideoSnippet();
$snippet->setTitle("SO Example");
// Numeric video category. See
// https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videoCategories/list
$snippet->setCategoryId("22");
// Set the video's status to "public". Valid statuses are "public",
// "private" and "unlisted".
$status = new Google_Service_YouTube_VideoStatus();
$status->privacyStatus = "private";
// Associate the snippet and status objects with a new video resource.
$video = new Google_Service_YouTube_Video();
$video->setSnippet($snippet);
$video->setStatus($status);
// Specify the size of each chunk of data, in bytes. Set a higher value for
// reliable connection as fewer chunks lead to faster uploads. Set a lower
// value for better recovery on less reliable connections.
$chunkSizeBytes = 1 * 1024 * 1024;
// Setting the defer flag to true tells the client to return a request which can be called
// with ->execute(); instead of making the API call immediately.
$client->setDefer(true);
// Create a request for the API's videos.insert method to create and upload the video.
$insertRequest = $youtube->videos->insert("status,snippet", $video);
// Create a MediaFileUpload object for resumable uploads.
$media = new Google_Http_MediaFileUpload(
$client,
$insertRequest,
'video/*',
null,
true,
$chunkSizeBytes);
$media->setFileSize(filesize($dbfile->localfile));
// Read the media file and upload it chunk by chunk.
$status = false;
$handle = fopen($dbfile->localfile, "rb");
while (!$status && ($chunk = (fread($handle, $chunkSizeBytes))) !== FALSE) {
$status = $media->nextChunk($chunk);
$data = array("filename" => $dbfile->localfile, "status" => print_r($status, true));
$db->saveLog($data);
}
/* the old code
while (!$status && !feof($handle)) {
$chunk = fread($handle, $chunkSizeBytes);
$status = $media->nextChunk($chunk);
}
*/
fclose($handle);
// If you want to make other calls after the file upload, set setDefer back to false
$client->setDefer(false);
$log = array("success" => true, "snippet_id" => $status["id"]);
} catch (Google_ServiceException $e) {
$log = array("success" => false, "errormsg" => $e->getMessage());
} catch (Google_Exception $e) {
$log = array("success" => false, "errormsg" => $e->getMessage());
}
return $log;
}
