Jot Messenger Video
We have added a few improvements for video files uploading feature in Jot Messenger. Now if you record the video and your browser that supports MediaRecorder with mp4 container with h256 codec, file will be encoded using this codec to send video to the server. Since mp4 format is supported by most modern browsers the video will play immediately without delays for processing.
In case if your browser's MediaRecorder doesn't support mp4, video will be converted to webm with v8/v9 codecs and all members in your talk with browsers supporting this format should also see the video immediately and other viewers who need mp4 will get the video after ffmpeg processing - it will be loaded automatically to the talk history and used as fallback format.
The same rules work for videos are uploaded through the simple Files Uploader.
Please test and let us know if you find any problems. 😀
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Great! This takes care of the annoying wait we have to deal with when video message is sent and is still transcoding. If this implementation is successful, we can use similar approach for attached videos in Posts, Timeline Updates, Videos and Albums.
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It sounds great, so we can test this now Alexey ?
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I went to studio > apps market > updates and there were no updates. My version of jot messenger is v9.0.6 is it the correct version Alexey ?
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We just updated it here on una.io to test - Alexey will push JOT Messenger app update shortly.
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We have to test more we can only test across multiple browsers, screens and OSs (via browserstack.com) but we may miss some formats - so it'd be great if more people try it live.
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Ok, thanks for clearing.
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Update is available now on una.io and online.me
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Will this uptaed automatically in case users have a cloud/pro plan and autoupdate enabled?
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Great, a small step for the man, a big step for the humanity :-) Works well for me, on firefox and Opera on Linux. On the other hand, I note that the vignette of the video does not seem to be displayed on FF.
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Hello Baloo,
Yes, there is not poster of the video, because to create poster we also need to use ffmpeg and it takes some time to create it, thus we will have delays again (but not so big as for video transcoding)
We have a couple ideas for posters and checking them ;)
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Sure enough, she's coming to the end of treatment, as Andrew says, if similar system applied to all videos, it'll make things a lot more enjoyable.
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Of course Peter , you will get it if auto-update enabled automatically, if disabled, it will be in the "update" section of the apps module. But as explained above, a little later after tests here.
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Are there any known problems with iPhone + videomessenger uploads? In my case 6S, iOS 11.2.5, their is no videobutton to record a viedeomessage, only the attach doc one.
@baloo thx:)
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Yes, Peter these buttons are hidden for IOS and Mac, because for video recording we are using WebRTC and MediaRecorder which were not supported by Apple and not so long ago they have finally added support for WebRTC streaming, but didn't add support for MediaRecorder.
We hope they solve this problem in the nearest versions.
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@alexey, thx
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Alexey, there is always the slight disadvantage that the chat window does not open on the most recent intervention, you have to go down manually. You will fix that?
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Hi Baloo,
Sorry, I don't understand, can you please describe in more details?
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I mean this, it depends on what the conversation contains, whether objects such as video or link, like our discussion Alexey.
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Hello,
Preload data for video should work now. It means you may see image from video as video's background.
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Hello, yes I confirm ! splendid !
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For some reason my video does not work, meaning the video takes a while to play?
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Hi Will Monte,
Do you mean it takes some time before to start to play? What size of the video approximately and did you record it using messanger recorder or uploaded from PC?
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Uploaded from my phone, yes takes about a minute to play. Video is 30 sec long
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Delay is linked with internet connection speed and video's size.
Video is loaded from the server after you send it and thus browser should get some part of the video before to play, it takes some time.
