In my app I already have paperclip for upload images, but requirement changed in order to accept both images and videos. The images are already defined in a model with a belongs_to relationship, called Attachment. Since the video will also be an attachment of the same parent model (in my case, articles) I wanted to reuse the same Attachment model for images & videos. Is this a good idea?
The code of my attachment.rb is:
class Attachment < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :article
has_attached_file :url, :s3_protocol => :https ,
styles: {
medium: "300x300>", thumb: "100x100>", big: "1200x1200>", normal: "600x600>"
}
validates_attachment_content_type :url, content_type: /\Aimage|\Avideo\/.*\Z/
validates_attachment :url, content_type: { content_type: ["image/jpeg", "image/gif", "image/png", "video/mp4"] }
end
But as it is, it's not storing videos on the S3. I get the following in the terminal
Command :: file -b --mime '/var/folders/v_/pf2bsxnj1y37ccd2pjksv7z80000gn/T/f3e2afc957bb9fb2aa3e77e69359c48920160131-13311-pyeez1.mp4'
Command :: identify -format '%wx%h,%[exif:orientation]' '/var/folders/v_/pf2bsxnj1y37ccd2pjksv7z80000gn/T/8dc7385648e2164764b72fda6fd9099a20160131-13311-1l40ccn.mp4[0]' 2>/dev/null
[paperclip] An error was received while processing: #<Paperclip::Errors::NotIdentifiedByImageMagickError: Paperclip::Errors::NotIdentifiedByImageMagickError>
Command :: identify -format '%wx%h,%[exif:orientation]' '/var/folders/v_/pf2bsxnj1y37ccd2pjksv7z80000gn/T/8dc7385648e2164764b72fda6fd9099a20160131-13311-1l40ccn.mp4[0]' 2>/dev/null
[paperclip] An error was received while processing: #<Paperclip::Errors::NotIdentifiedByImageMagickError: Paperclip::Errors::NotIdentifiedByImageMagickError>
Command :: identify -format '%wx%h,%[exif:orientation]' '/var/folders/v_/pf2bsxnj1y37ccd2pjksv7z80000gn/T/8dc7385648e2164764b72fda6fd9099a20160131-13311-1l40ccn.mp4[0]' 2>/dev/null
[paperclip] An error was received while processing: #<Paperclip::Errors::NotIdentifiedByImageMagickError: Paperclip::Errors::NotIdentifiedByImageMagickError>
Command :: identify -format '%wx%h,%[exif:orientation]' '/var/folders/v_/pf2bsxnj1y37ccd2pjksv7z80000gn/T/8dc7385648e2164764b72fda6fd9099a20160131-13311-1l40ccn.mp4[0]' 2>/dev/null
[paperclip] An error was received while processing: #<Paperclip::Errors::NotIdentifiedByImageMagickError: Paperclip::Errors::NotIdentifiedByImageMagickError>
Command :: file -b --mime '/var/folders/v_/pf2bsxnj1y37ccd2pjksv7z80000gn/T/f3e2afc957bb9fb2aa3e77e69359c48920160131-13311-kvb5nr.mp4'
The second question is since I'm using AngularJS for the frontend, can I just take advantage of HTML <video> tag to render the video to the user?
Looks like the issue is that ImageMagick is trying to transcode the video, which it cannot.
The way to handle transcoding of videos within Paperclip is to use the paperclip-av-transcoder gem (formerly paperclip-ffmpeg). I only have experience with the latter:
#app/models/attachment.rb
class Attachment < ActiveRecord::Base
has_attached_file :url, :s3_protocol => :https ,
styles: lambda { |a| a.instance.is_image? ? medium: "300x300>", thumb: "100x100>", big: "1200x1200>", normal: "600x600>" } : {:thumb => { :geometry => "100x100#", :format => 'jpg', :time => 10}, :medium => { :geometry => "300x300#", :format => 'jpg', :time => 10}}}, processors: [:transcoder]
validates_attachment :url,
content_type: ['video/mp4'],
message: "Sorry, right now we only support MP4 video",
if: :is_video?
validates_attachment :url,
content_type: ['image/png', 'image/jpeg', 'image/jpg', 'image/gif'],
message: "Different error message",
if: :is_image?
private
def is_video?
url.instance.attachment_content_type =~ %r(video)
end
def is_image?
url.instance.attachment_content_type =~ %r(image)
end
end