Configuration and Usage

Importing Videos

This creates a video model for each file being imported:

cd /var/www/html/api
php artisan video:import /path/to/import user-id

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Make sure files in the import and destination path are writeable by the running user, e.g. http/www-data.
Make sure videos can be played in the browser/target device as they aren't being encoded (yet).
Make sure there is enough space on the disk to import and process the media.
See app/Console/Commands/Video/ImportCommand.php for details.

This creates a caption model for each file being imported:

cd /var/www/html/api
php artisan video:import-captions /path/to/import video-id

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Make sure files in the import and destination path are writeable by the running user, e.g. http/www-data.
Make sure caption files contain valid WebVTT as they aren't being validated (yet).
See app/Console/Commands/Video/ImportCaptionsCommand.php for more details.

This creates a clip model for each file being imported:

cd /var/www/html/api
php artisan video:import-clips /path/to/import video-id

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This can be used to provide multiple resolutions/bitrates of videos.
Make sure files in the import and destination path are writeable by the running user, e.g. http/www-data.
Make sure videos can be played in the browser/target device as they aren't being encoded (yet).
Make sure there is enough space on the disk to import and process the media.
See app/Console/Commands/Video/ImportClipsCommand.php for details.

cd /var/www/html/api
composer install --optimize-autoloader --no-dev
php artisan optimize

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