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Re: [EP-tech] get_mime_type?

For video documents, let's say a user uploads a 1.4 GB video, a QuickTime MOV file.
By default, EPrints will create 2 derivative video files, and place them on like the thumbnails, for example, here:

~/archives/ARCHIVEID/documents/disk0/00/00/79/00/22/video.mp4
~/archives/ARCHIVEID/documents/disk0/00/00/79/00/23/video.ogg

Are there any API calls to find out if these derivative files exist for an item/document?
Are there any API calls to get the URL of these derivative video files?
By default, does EPrints attempt to serve these to the public? 

Tomasz


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From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John Salter
Sent: October-13-16 12:05 PM
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] get_mime_type?

Hi Tomasz,
I don't think I've ever run 'redo_thumbnails' on video files, but for images, it will remove the derivative versions, and re-create them.
The thumbnails are stored as document objects, with a 'relation' defined.

Normally, the new files are stored in the same folder as the original - but in a new 'pos' directory e.g. for eprint 1234:
~/archives/ARCHIVEID/documents/disk0/00/00/00/12/34/01/This is the original.tiff ~/archives/ARCHIVEID/documents/disk0/00/00/00/12/34/02/large.jpg
~/archives/ARCHIVEID/documents/disk0/00/00/00/12/34/03/medium.jpg
~/archives/ARCHIVEID/documents/disk0/00/00/00/12/34/04/small.jpg

...run the redo thumbnails

~/archives/ARCHIVEID/documents/disk0/00/00/00/12/34/01/This is the original.tiff ~/archives/ARCHIVEID/documents/disk0/00/00/00/12/34/05/large.jpg
~/archives/ARCHIVEID/documents/disk0/00/00/00/12/34/06/medium.jpg
~/archives/ARCHIVEID/documents/disk0/00/00/00/12/34/07/small.jpg

If you change the settings for the video thumbnails (e.g. bitrate, or size), redo_thumbnails will get rid of the old ones and make new ones.

You can also configure storage plugins to e.g. save the originals to one pot of storage, and the thumbnails to another (which might be useful if you want to use different backup/archiving strategies for the two types, or want to put the thumbnails on a CDN).

BE WARNED... 
The thumbnailing jobs are added to the indexer queue. If you change settings, but don't restart the indexer, the old configuration will be used! This can be very confusing!  I know, I've been there ;o)

Cheers,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tomasz Neugebauer
Sent: 13 October 2016 16:25
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] get_mime_type?


Thanks, Thomas, $doc->get_value( "mime_type") works! 
Also, thanks, John, I'm familiar with the redo_mime_type command; I think I understand this one:
The one that is more mysterious is redo_thumbnails.
For video documents, if you have FFMPEG and the H264 codec on the server, this transcodes to video to MP4 and OGG.
What does EPrints do with these transcoded files?  Do they get served to the public?  
Where does EPrints put them?  Is there an API call to get these derivative files for the document?

Best wishes,
Tomasz


-----Original Message-----
From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John Salter
Sent: October-13-16 5:35 AM
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Cc: Tomasz Neugebauer <Tomasz.Neugebauer@concordia.ca>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] get_mime_type?

Might be worth mentioning that there is a function in bin/epadmin to redo mime types.

If you upgraded from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2, a suggestion to run this was made, but you can run it if it looks like your mime types are not quite right (and as file type detection improves).

>From the perldoc:
epadmin redo_mime_type repository_id dataset [ objectid, ... ]
    Re-run the file format identification. Dataset may be one of 'document' or 'file'. If 'document' only re-does the identification of the main files in documents.


Cheers,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Thomas Lauke
Sent: 13 October 2016 09:09
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Cc: tomasz.neugebauer@concordia.ca
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] get_mime_type?

Hi Tomasz,

> How would I get the mime_type of a document in EPrints?

refering to ~/Eprints/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/Document.pm imho $doc->get_value( "mime_type" ); does the job!?

Hth
Thomas
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