Adding Large Videos

With uwosh.flash, videos should normally upload without trouble; however, we restrict the size of the video to just 100MB. If there are exceptions where a client needs a larger video on the site, for now it is advised to upload the file to the FSS in a sub-directory that corresponds to the site name and then manually set the settings on the plone site. Here is an example:

• upload the video to the FSS in a directory that fits the current structure. For instance, if the site name is "uwosh," upload to a directory "/flash/adobe/fms/applications/vod/media/uwosh"
• On the site, create a Multimedia object stub to put the FSS settings into
• fire up a client in debug mode
  ./bin/client3 debug
• Issue a sequence similar to this
  

  import transaction
  from AccessControl.SecurityManagement import newSecurityManager
  user = app.acl_users.getUser('myusername')
  newSecurityManager(None, user.__of__(app.acl_users))
  obj = app.restrictedTraverse('/path/to/site/and/path/to/multimedia')
  obj.streaming_url = 'uwosh/name-of-video.flv'
  obj.original_content_type = 'video/x-flv'
  transaction.commit()
  app._p_jar.sync()  # this maybe isn't necessary

That should be it. The video should now be streamable :)

Kim's note: the above did not work for me.  See the related item below for a workaround that did.