A.

There's no easy way to say how much memory the app needs, since it's going to depend on what you are trying to upload

As a very rough calculation (which might not be close to reality):

* On iPhone 4S, 1080p video, it's 3 MB per second of video
* That is converted to Base64 for the upload so it grows by 33%: 4MB
* Looking at WordPress code, the request gets duplicated in memory at least once

So that's about 8MB per second of video, plus the usual WordPress memory requirements.

I'm looking at ways to get around providers' tight memory limits, as this is becoming a common problem with phones doing HD video and 8MP cameras.

Alex

one.com gives me 80mb of "memory_limit". Shouldn't that be enough?

How much does the app need? Since there is no way to up the limit @ one.com - this would make me have to change provider.

pls. advise,
Alex

The mobile apps use a different mechanism to upload images and video, and it's more memory intensive

Check this post to see how to configure PHP to use more memory: http://ios.forums.wordpress.org/topic/video-settings?replies=6

Was finally able to get a log file. Took me some time, biut now i've got it. Where can I send it too? Have looked into the file and found following message pertaining to the problem:

"2013-03-24 11:41:54 +0000 Blog returned invalid data (URL: http://www.XYZ123WRLD.de/wordpress/xmlrpc.php)

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 83886080 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 9762990 bytes) in /customers/a/b/7/XYZ123WRLD.de/httpd.www/wordpress/wp-includes/class-IXR.php on line 384"

Obviously some memory error. Interestingly @ 1/10 of the allowed memory. Upload works fine from PC, so physical memory should not be the problem...

I can send the log file, or post it here - pls advise, as it is lenghty.

Greeting, Alex

http://ios.forums.wordpress.org/topic/video-upload-still-fails

I'm disappointed that all of this has to be so hard, but maybe videos on the web are in a transition state now. Hopefully we'll see some standardization and improvements in the future.

In the meantime, I'll give up and go back to YouTube and Vimeo, as you suggested. They seem to take care of the video format, the html, and the browser compatibility, and the iPhone now has integrated support for YouTube in the built-in Photos app. I can upload the video, paste the bare URL into a post using the Wordpress app, and the video player is created automatically by Wordpress when the user views the post. Nice and easy.

Thanks for looking into it, anyway.

It seems that Firefox is getting H.264 support soon, so that's good http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mozilla-firefox-browsers-h264-video,20012.html

In the meantime:

- There is a setting in the app to embed the video using html4, but I think that requires users to have QuickTime installed, so it might be even less compatible
- You could try using some sort of flash player, there are a few plugins at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=video but I haven't tried any of them, and I'm not sure how they'd integrate with the mobile apps
- Or use youtube/vimeo/... for greater compatibility.

I tried a different machine, and found that Chrome 24 on Vista does play the video -- although rotated sideways, as you were seeing. It doesn't, however, play in Firefox or IE9. I don't know why my Win7 machine isn't playing it -- I tried disabling all plug-ins and extensions. But anyway, that's a problem on my machine.

I guess the remaining question is still how to get the uploaded video to display in Firefox, IE, and Opera. (and how to get it to be rotated correctly) At least I've got it working in two browsers now. :-)

Thanks.

Like I said, in previous cases uploading the same video to a different server worked. But the problem is we haven't figured out exactly what breaks it. I know in that case it was related to the web server not handling partial requests correctly, but I don't know what setting triggered that behaviour.

If I send you some credentials for a test blog, are you willing to upload that video there and see if it shows ok on your browser? Is your email at http://ios.forums.wordpress.org/profile/russellg99 correct?

Just because the file plays when dragged into the browser doesn't mean it's necessarily a server problem. There are lots of reasons why it could still be a browser problem, including the fact that the browser might not support the html that's used to play it. In fact, if I create an html link pointing directly to the .mov file, Chrome plays it fine. It just doesn't play it when it's in a video tag. Or at least, it doesn't play it with a video tag when it's in mp4 format -- it plays .webm and .ogv files fine.

I'm not sure that's really a fair test though. When I drag the file in, or when I link directly to the .mov file, the video is displayed inside Chrome using the QuickTime plug-in. Right-clicking in the video produces a popup menu with options like "About QuickTime plug-in".

But when it tries to play it with the video tag, it's completely different. Right-clicking in the blank video space brings up a Chrome menu with options like "Play, Mute, Loop, and Show Controls".

That's probably not really the issue here though, so my apologies for nit-picking.

Anyway, I agree that video on the web is tricky. But right now the iOS Wordpress app is really only supporting uploaded video in one browser, and that in itself seems worthy of a bug report to encourage more investigation into possible solutions.

This problem seems to be a combination of the browser, the type of video being played, and the html tags being used. Since the Wordpress app is running on iOS, which only produces video one way, we can't (easily) change the video on the device, but maybe something can be done on the server side, after the video has been uploaded. Or maybe something can be changed with the html tags produced.

We web developers work around problems like this all the time, so it just seems like we should encourage people to look into improving the current situation with the app. I'm surprised more people aren't complaining about it -- but maybe that's a testament to the number of people using Safari.

The server was not handling partial content requests properly, and browsers got confused about that.

Try copying/downloading the video to your computer, and drag the file to the browser window. If it plays, it's your server. If it doesn't play, it might be the browser or the codecs (but since you say it plays ok in safari, I'd say it's the browser)

Sadly, video on the web is still tricky. That's why we have videopress, and people use youtube/vimeo for their video hosting. They take care of all the server and codec problems for you

iOS supports (a few) other codecs, but I think the best one is still H.264. For any other codec, the app would have to transcode the video (probably very slow, since I think H.264 is hardware optimized on iPhone), and the resulting file would be larger, requiring a slower upload. And you'd probably end up with the same problem anyway.

<video src="http://.../file.mov" controls="controls" width="360" height="640">Your browser does not support the video tag</video>

When I display the blog post in Chrome 24 on Windows 7, I see a blank area where the video should play. The control bar is visible at the bottom of the video, and the progress bar moves when I click play, and I even hear the audio - but the video area is blank. I see the same thing in Opera 12, except it doesn't play at all. In Firefox 18, I see a gray area where the video should be, no control bar, and the message "Video format or MIME type is not supported". In IE 9, I see a black area with a red X in it, and no control bar.

In Safari 5 for Windows, however, it works.

I tried copying the video tag to an html file on a separate web server, and I get the same results - so I don't think it's a server issue. Here's the page, if you want to try it:

http://www.farofflands.com/misc/wp_ios_video_test.html

And the video tag:

<video src="http://www.farofflands.com/test1.mov" controls="controls" width="360" height="640">Your browser does not support the video tag</video>

The .mov file is an 8-second video I shot with my iPhone 5. I didn't do any editing to it, and just uploaded it from the phone to the Wordpress blog using the Wordpress iOS app.

I noticed that in an earlier post in this thread, a bug was created for this, but the bug was then later changed to "trivial" priority with a comment saying it's a server-side issue. I don't think it's a server-side issue, but maybe someone can copy the file to their own server and try it.

When I go to the following page and try the first three videos, Chrome has the same problem with the mp4 file, but it plays the .webm and .ogv files ok.

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/video/basics/

This seems like a problem related to browsers and codecs, but since I can't do anything about the video being recorded or the browsers that people will view it in, the only solution I see is to change what's uploaded by the Wordpress iOS app. Maybe it can convert it to another format (or formats), upload all of them, and include src attributes to all of them in the video tag? Or maybe a plugin can be created for Wordpress itself? Not sure what the best solution is...

Any ideas? Thanks!
Russell

Thanks

Thanks

Yeah same as nachosan1

Thanx,
Alex

What happens if you try to upload a video from the admin in a browser?

I am haviing exactly the same problem. Ihave a 96mb upload limit, nevertheless I can´t get anything but a few seconds uploaded - "upload failed".

Any suggestions from wordpress? Seems like a few people are experiencing this problem. Due to the fact that I am mainly uploading from iOS devices, my possibilities are quite impaired with this problem.

Uploads via Web Interface are not a problem.

Thanx for some answers!,
Alex

I changed the htaccess file, I changed the php.ini file, tried it while in the wp-admin folder, tried it with a single php.ini for the whole site.

When I go to import a wordpress site, I see the 128Megs limit so it's seeing the limit but I still can't upload a little under a minute movie from the app. It seems like this has been going on for a while.

Would there be another "work around" that actually works ?

php_value memory_limit 128M
php_value upload_max_filesize 128M
php_value post_max_size 128M
php_value max_execution_time 120

Upload still fails. It goes all the way to 100% and then says failed - retry?

I'm running the latest Wordpress iOS app, latest wordpress.
I can post pictures and text fine. Single or multiple.

Am I the only one having this problem ?