Wednesday, March 21, 2012

[YouTube-API] This one's tough... timing out

Hi,
 
I just created a asp.net app that uploads our clients videos to a youtube account.  The app works great when the upload takes less than an hour or an hour and a half, but any longer uploads the page uploading the video dies with a "webpage not found" (or something to that effect),  type of error.  The page basically stops uploading and dies.  It's hard to believe but these days, a short 5 minute hd video can be as large as 700meg.  I can't ask our client to compress their video.
 
Here is a small sample of the code i am using to do the upload...
 
<form onSubmit=' return DisableButton()' id='submitform' action='https://uploads.gdata.youtube.com/action/FormDataUpload/AIwbFAREghx0-5BiBzazB7qw761ZnA_QgzZjXCaXNmT1HaCjuXTyNXvDjXMha9up5Z_m-Xc86j8e-wEJQMV241lSs1BfFSuCVw?nexturl=done.htm' method ='post' enctype='multipart/form-data'>
 
The above sample is just to show you i am using the standard method youtube suggests in their documentation.
 
I've looked into all types of session state paramaters,  (iis and webconfig type), none seem to help.   I really don't think it's a session timeout issue.. my thought is that it is a client webpage timeout issue... but i can't prove it... or fix it.
 
 
I have no problem uploading the same video through the normal www.youtube interface, oh and by the way, the youtube interface seems to upload the video a good bit quicker than the .net api.
 
So to summerize, I think the upload page is timing out after about 1 and 1/2 hours... is there something i can do to keep the upload going?
 
Thanks!
 
Steve
 

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