Last modified: 2013-04-22 16:14:30 UTC
Creating thumbnails from videos on backends without POSIX access is expensive since a local copy of the video has to be created in /tmp first. TMH should create thumbs from the public http url and seek using http range requests instead. avconv supports http so that part should be possible. One open question is if the public url is the best one or if we can use a swift url instead.
TMH part https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/31666/ depends on core change https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/32102/