I was wondering if anyone can help me with this issue.
I need help to find a way to make paperclip work with elastic transcoder.
I need to be able to save an uploaded video in S3 Amazon bucket using paperclip and then transcode the uploaded video into 3 different format and save them back in the same bucket.
The issue is can I get all done together?
This issue has been solved by using a gem called 'elastic_transcoder'
Here is a sample of what I have done using elastic_transcoder
First get the url of the video you want to transcode excluding the AWS domain name and bucket name.
url = self.paperclip_video.url.split('/').pop
url = url.drop(3).join('/')
you got the idea the above code varies depending on the url you get you just need the path as I said before excluding the AWS domain name and bucket name.
Then get the path to the original video
input_url = url + '/' + self.paperclip_video_file_name
Then get the filename excluding the extension to user to generate the output url for the transcoded video
file_name = File.basename(self.paperclip_video_file_name, File.extname(self.paperclip_video_file_name))
Then create the output path
output_url = url + '/mp4_' + file_name + '.mp4'
For simplicity I am transcoding to one type which is mp4
Create a new elastic transcoding pipline
pipeline = ElasticTranscoder::Pipeline.new
please note that you need to set first the pipeline on you AWS account moreover you need to set your preset for mp4 conversion on your AWS account.
Initialize your pipline object by passing your pipeline_id which you obtained from AWS
pipeline_front.pipeline '***************'
create a new Jobs object to pass you transcoding jobs to
jobs = ElasticTranscoder::Jobs.new
create new Job
jobs.create_job input_url, output_url, "**your pipeline_id**", "your preset_id", "#{url}/web_thumbnail-{count}"
This will do the job and you can get the video transcoded.