My use case involves uploading thousands of full quality photo and video files using browser to S3 and Wasabi storage accounts. Currently we are compression it on client's browser and right now we did it using dropzonejs which handles uploading. Right now its compressed before being uploaded to server.
However, that's what we need to change. We need to upload original quality photos and that's where it gets stuck as we cannot upload files more than 3-4 Gbs using Dropzonejs. Not sure what prevents it but we are struggling to find solution for this. We face problem randomly with memory limit in Chrome which crashes and need to restart process again. With original quality photo we assume this would not work as we will be talking for at least 10 to 15 gbs of data at least.
What would you recommend for this kind of use case where we need to upload video & photos in original quality sometimes a single photo could be taking as much as 40Mbs+. And video several Gbs.
How does Google photos manages this? We need something like that.
Do not compress on client side. It actually increases memory usage on the browser session. To my experience uploading original image from the browser uses least amount of memory as the browser should only read enough from the file to send the data, as long as you're not loading the picture locally to show the thumbnails.
I was able to upload GBs of images to S3 with client side compression turned off. I was able to upload a single 20GB video file to S3, upload 200 videos totaling over 13GB using S3 Chunk upload. Chunk upload should increase, not decrease browser memory usage and was implemented to hand transmission failures for large files.