Last modified: 2014-05-29 23:44:52 UTC
when uploading files UW waits with publishing until all encoding and scaling is done before notifying the user the upload is done, this can take quite some time with large files. i have tested this with unexperienced users, and they were all sure the uploading died and gave up / refreshed. They didn't think of going to the file page and looking if it was in fact uploaded I think it would be best to continue to the publishing phase once the original was uploaded if that is technically possible and continue scaling in backround.
Is this specifically about video? I'm not sure this would be an accurate description of how image uploading works.
It is commons for video, as it is usually bigger in size, but if you upload an image stream from flickr it also takes a long time. there is image scaling in images as well, but i'm not sure what is the flow there. It is definitely worse for video.
Thats not an accurate description of the upload process for either type of file. The delay in "publishing" probably has to do with the round about way the job queue is invoked, and in case of chunked, the task of concatenation (i would guess anyways, as always measuring things would be better than my guess). Scaling should not enter into it.
