Picasa - Video uploaded through googlecl never transcodes

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create an album with movie content:
google picasa create --tags=ADF --src=20040527/*.avi --title=20040527-B 
--date=05/27/2004 --access=public --summary="Taken 5/22-27, posted May 27'th."

Expected:
The resulting album https://picasaweb.google.com/ami.fischman.org/20040527B 
shows 3 video thumbnails, each of which is playable.
Actual:
The 3 uploaded files are left in "processing" state showing the clock thumbnail 
image, and are not playable.

One of the three videos is uploaded here for testing:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B4HRGXO4UN1fYWFiMTNiN2ItZGYzNS00YmUzLWEzZjEtYjM
yNTVmYTRkMTQ4&hl=en_US

Uploading it manually through the web interface works fine: 
https://picasaweb.google.com/ami.fischman.org/ManualVideoUploadTest

This is googlecl 0.9.13 on ubuntu 11.04 (I don't have python-gdata version info 
ATM).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ami@fischman.org on 15 Aug 2011 at 2:16

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FTR, the above was with gdata 1.2.4.
Same happens with gdata 2.0.14, and with album-create and move-upload done 
separately:
google picasa create --title=CreateThenPost --access=public
google picasa post --title=CreateThenPost --src=Downloads/m1.avi
Results in failure to transcode: 
https://picasaweb.google.com/ami.fischman.org/CreateThenPost#5643092726794892242

Original comment by ami@fischman.org on 21 Aug 2011 at 12:06

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There is a post on PWA api [1], I have noticed it after you created this issue. 
But I didn't link to it because it didn't get a reply from Google and still 
didn't.

It says the uploaded videos are in pending state, I don't know what state is 
received in googlecl/gdata. But I am guessing it's pending state, too, since 
the thumbnail on PWA looks like so.

The post also mentions the rough date 8/9-8/10 when this started happening.

I suspect this is a PWA api issue rather than googlecl/gdata. Maybe you should 
head over there and give it a legit bump with your experience and a link to 
this issue.

[1] 
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-picasa-data-api/8e_QPXmWS6A/discussion

Original comment by livibet...@gmail.com on 21 Aug 2011 at 1:58

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I've responded on the above thread in the PWA api forum, and included that 
response here for convenience:

This appears to have been a problem with an update in the underlying file 
system API such that videos were not being written before handing over to the 
servers responsible for processing the video data.  The bottom line is that the 
video data was not saved, so the videos that had been uploaded can be deleted 
from the account and the data will need to be updated again.

The fix for this should push tomorrow, and changes are being implemented to 
ensure that this type of failure will ring loud bells instead of dying quietly.

I will update this thread when the change has been pushed and will monitor the 
system to be sure uploads continue to work as expected.

Original comment by merick...@google.com on 1 Sep 2011 at 7:28

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Thanks, works great now.  Issue can be closed.

Original comment by ami@fischman.org on 3 Sep 2011 at 8:37

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Original comment by szy...@endpoint.com on 29 Dec 2012 at 8:18

• Changed state: WontFix