Is there some kind of messaging or response when transcoding is done?

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Posted: Wed, 2012-02-08 13:16 ariestav

Hi There,

Once a file is uploaded to the BOTR server via the API, I assume it enters a queue for processing. When the processing is complete, is there any type of message or response we can get from your server that can notifies the application code? Is it necessary to actively poll the status of the BOTR servers in an application in order to know the status of the files progression? Does it, for example, send an email out?

For my needs, it would be useful to upload the file, and along with the file send a url to a script that gets called when the file is complete. Is that possible with the API?

Thanks for your time and help!

Posted: Thu, 2012-02-09 09:06 remco

The is no outgoing messaging when a video completes, you would need to poll with e.g. a /videos/show call. Please choose a responsible interval when doing this in order to avoid hammering our API (like once per minute).

Posted: Thu, 2012-02-09 17:22 ariestav

What if there we 50 videos that were uploaded programmatically. It just doesn't make sense to poll for the status of those videos every minute. Hopefully you'll implement a callback solution soon.

Thanks!

Posted: Fri, 2012-02-10 05:00 remco

The /videos/list call will return states of videos too and it is even possible to filter this call by state.

There are no short term plans for implementing callbacks.

Posted: Fri, 2012-02-10 11:28 ariestav

So setting up that code within a cron job that takes place every minute is okay with BOTR?

Posted: Fri, 2012-02-10 12:08 remco

Yeah, that should be fine.

Is there some kind of messaging or response when transcoding is done?

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