Confused about video. Still can't seem to get them to show up

mrm · March 13, 2022, 3:47pm

Ah! I didn’t realize the videos might be enormous. I bet the transcode operation is getting timed out, so the asset fails to import.

If you don’t need it transcoded, you can tell PhotoStructure not to bother. There are three settings you can pay with:

github.com

photostructure/photostructure-for-servers/blob/1f6d907769fd2b01900eb88ce64bf0d732998aa0/defaults.env#L1977

      
        
            # in this list will be copied into your originals directory.
            #
            # Note that mimetypes can include an asterisk to do glob-matching.
            #
            # See the related system setting "copyAssetsToLibrary".
            #
            # PS_COPY_TO_LIBRARY_MIMETYPES="[\"image/*\",\"video/*\"]"
            
            

            
# +-----------------------------+
            # |  doNotTranscodeAudioCodecs  |
            # +-----------------------------+
            #
            # Videos are transcoded when the "transcodeVideos" is set to true and is not
            # one of the following audio codecs. The audio codec is stored in the
            # "AudioCodec" tag.
            #
            # PS_DO_NOT_TRANSCODE_AUDIO_CODECS="[\"mp4a\",\"sowt\"]"
            
            

            
# +---------------------------+

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photostructure/photostructure-for-servers/blob/1f6d907769fd2b01900eb88ce64bf0d732998aa0/defaults.env#L1988

      
        
            # +-----------------------------+
            #
            # Videos are transcoded when the "transcodeVideos" is set to true and is not
            # one of the following audio codecs. The audio codec is stored in the
            # "AudioCodec" tag.
            #
            # PS_DO_NOT_TRANSCODE_AUDIO_CODECS="[\"mp4a\",\"sowt\"]"
            
            

            
# +---------------------------+
            # |  doNotTranscodeMimetypes  |
            # +---------------------------+
            #
            # Videos are transcoded when the "transcodeVideos" is set to true and is not
            # one of the following mimetypes. See
            # https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#video for a
            # complete list. If you are setting this via an environment variable, you can
            # separate the values either like a PATH (like "video/quicktime:video/mp4") or
            # use JSON encoding (like "['video/quicktime','video/mp4']").
            #
            # PS_DO_NOT_TRANSCODE_MIMETYPES="[\"video/quicktime\",\"video/mp4\",\"video/mpv\",\"video/mp2t\"]"

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photostructure/photostructure-for-servers/blob/1f6d907769fd2b01900eb88ce64bf0d732998aa0/defaults.env#L2002

      
        
            # one of the following mimetypes. See
            # https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#video for a
            # complete list. If you are setting this via an environment variable, you can
            # separate the values either like a PATH (like "video/quicktime:video/mp4") or
            # use JSON encoding (like "['video/quicktime','video/mp4']").
            #
            # PS_DO_NOT_TRANSCODE_MIMETYPES="[\"video/quicktime\",\"video/mp4\",\"video/mpv\",\"video/mp2t\"]"
            
            

            
# +-----------------------------+
            # |  doNotTranscodeVideoCodecs  |
            # +-----------------------------+
            #
            # Videos are transcoded when the "transcodeVideos" is set to true and is not
            # one of the following video codecs. The video codec may be stored in the
            # "VideoCodec", "CompressorID", or "CompressorName" tags.
            #
            # PS_DO_NOT_TRANSCODE_VIDEO_CODECS="[\"avc1\"]"
            
            

            
# +---------------------------------+

I’d use either the first or last one.

You can see these tag values with exiftool:

exiftool -VideoCodec -CompressorID -CompressorName -mimetype /path/to/file.mov