audio and video files do not play

[hannahfrost]

Created a work for an MP3 audio file and another work for an MOV video file.

On each work's show page, the file is listed and it is clear that has been successfully uploaded. The default media player appears, but clicking on play results in no response.

For a fleeting moment, the download arrow was displayed for the audio file. When I clicked on it, the browser responded with an error: "Failed - no file found"

Links to sample files:
video
https://salad.demo.hydrainabox.org/concern/generic_works/b8eb3733-008e-40c4-80ae-72995c75a98a?locale=en

audio
https://salad.demo.hydrainabox.org/concern/generic_works/c8cc206c-11b0-44fc-b1a1-1ffa332e02df?locale=en

[jcoyne]

@hannahfrost It was my impression that we purposely excluded audio and video from the beta. As far as I can tell, we haven't installed ffmpeg on the worker machines, which would be prerequisite for this.

[hannahfrost]

@jcoyne That was never my intention. I wish I had caught this issue earlier.

[mjgiarlo]

@jcoyne Could you estimate the level of effort for this ticket? (Do we need DevOps folks to chime in on this too?)

[jcoyne]

@mjgiarlo this is completely a dev ops concern if we want to use ffmpeg (like local hydra). If we want to use elastic encode, it might be a week of work.

[mjgiarlo]

@bbranan @eefahy @cbeer @dbernstein How much would it take to add ffmpeg to our AWS deployment? Alternatively, would folks prefer to use Elastic Transcoder? (FWIW, the hydra-derivatives gem now includes support for the latter but I don't yet have a sense of how costly it'd be to make Hyrax's transcoding work with it.)

[bbranan]

I'd prefer to see us use Elastic Transcoder here if possible. We have enough issues already with capacity planning on the workers with FITS and ImageMagick, I'm not inclined to add ffmpeg to the mix. That said, is there any reason to not simply allow these files to be downloadable (like other generic files) in the meantime?

[cjcolvar]

I'd be willing to help on an effort to support Elastic Transcoder in hyrax. Avalon has this work planned but I have been bogged down in local migration to Avalon 6.x and will be for the next week or two.

[mjgiarlo]

Great, @cjcolvar. Glad to hear this!

[mjgiarlo]

@bbranan 💬

That said, is there any reason to not simply allow these files to be downloadable (like other generic files) in the meantime?

They should already be downloadable. If not, that's a 🐛!

[hannahfrost]

@mjgiarlo @bbranan These files are downloadable from the Action dropdown menu under the file list for each work.

[mjgiarlo]

@cjcolvar Are you still interested in taking this on?

[cjcolvar]

@mjgiarlo Interested yes, but I'm still stuck in production land for another week at least.

[mjgiarlo]

@cjcolvar OK, no problem. Good luck in production land!