Upload videos to Picasa albums

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I would be great if you could also upload videos to Picasa albums.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mscurte...@google.com on 17 Jun 2010 at 8:27

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Agreed.  I think the Picasa desktop application does transcoding, so we'd 
probably have to replicate that in googlecl for it to work.  Youtube uploads 
work great, however.

Original comment by jh...@google.com on 18 Jun 2010 at 7:01

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Transcoding would be nice, but even without it. As a first step you can expect 
the video to be in the right format. You can use some other tool to do the 
transcoding first.

Right now on Linux you cannot upload videos at all, the Linux Picasa desktop 
does not do that.

Original comment by mscurte...@google.com on 18 Jun 2010 at 7:14

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I agree that this would be very helpful. On a semi-related topic, it would be 
helpful to be able to upload videos to google docs. I purchased additional 
storage, and can store any file types now. But the CL upload doesn't allow it 
while the web version does.

Original comment by otheracc...@zivan.com on 18 Jun 2010 at 10:49

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The Picasa Web API supports video upload, and doesn't require pre-transcoding.

http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/docs/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#Po
stVideo

Original comment by j...@gmail.com on 19 Jun 2010 at 2:07

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Issue 148 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by tom.h.mi...@gmail.com on 22 Jun 2010 at 4:51

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Original comment by tom.h.mi...@gmail.com on 22 Jun 2010 at 5:40

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Issue 125 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by tom.h.mi...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2010 at 3:19

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This issue was closed by revision r350.

Original comment by tom.h.mi...@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2010 at 2:41

• Changed state: Fixed

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This should be possible with r350 in the trunk using the same command as 
uploading photos

$ google picasa post --title mixed_album ~/Photos_and_videos/*

The video will take a little while, maybe 10 minutes, to transcode during which 
time you'll see a clock icon instead of a video. But after that, you should be 
good!

As always, let me know via this issue if anything doesn't work as expected.

Original comment by tom.h.mi...@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2010 at 2:44

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Issue 234 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by tom.h.mi...@gmail.com on 1 Aug 2010 at 2:15

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Works fine. But the upgrade requires a newer python-gdata and rm -r 
~/.googlecl/ for me.

Original comment by D.G.Jan...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2010 at 3:28

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The same filename issue is same as in Issue 409 and I have submitted a patch 
[1].

Basically, it can summarize down to

a) videos aren't playable, (b and c are certainly issues when a happens.)
d) the filenames are all set to the last file's name.

I don't think there is any fault in googlecl, it only sends file untouch to 
picasa. What video and audio codecs were used in your .avi video file?

Most important troubleshooting question is, Does manual upload work?

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/issues/detail?id=409#c5

Original comment by livibet...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2011 at 5:45

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I got "Oops... there's nothing to see here. Either you do not have access to 
these photos, or they don't exist at this web address. Please contact the owner 
directly to gain access."

And is that possible you send me an original file (smaller if you have one), so 
I could test and look into this issue. (Though I am not sure if I could do 
anything about this issue)

Original comment by livibet...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2011 at 6:18

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I couldn't get it working, either. Try a mpeg, same result.

I traced the code and everything looked fine. The mime, the multipart, all 
looked good to me.

Trying to find a uploader and see if any could work, but I couldn't find one. 
The Official Picasa Web Albums uplodaer is outdated for Linux. Ant it only is 
32bit, can't use Wine to run Windows' version. I can't find any other uploaders.

gdata Python client doesn't have sample for Picasa, I am checking out Java 
client, it does have.

If you know any other programs (like some via phone), maybe you can try and see 
if it works. If it does not work, it might be Picasa Data API's issue.

Also, I think you should create a new issue. This one is closed. I think it's 
fine since this is about adding video upload, and it seems it did work at the 
time when it was added. Now, it's broken for some reason, you should create new 
issue.

Original comment by livibet...@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2011 at 4:27

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#17: thanks for trying.  I filed new issue 415 with the details from here.  (I 
had initially followed up here b/c of #9's request to do so, but have since 
regretted it :)).  Since all the info from here is replicated in issue 415 I'm 
going to de-clutter this bug by deleting my comments from it.

Original comment by ami@fischman.org on 15 Aug 2011 at 2:17