Video upload failing with unknown error

[ianhyzy]

I'm trying to upload a 2.5GB video to PeerTube. When I do, it upload to about 25% and then fails with "Unknown error". There's some old GitHub posts that say it's an nginx config change that can help but it's not clear: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/1359

[girish]

@ianhyzy Cloudron's nginx does not have a upload limit (client_max_body_size is 0 i.e unlimited). So, this is either coming from the app or maybe it's just taking a long time to upload 2.5GB. Are you able to upload smaller videos say 500MB and then 1GB and so on? Might be a good idea to time the uploads as well as I suspect it is probably hitting some peertube frontend timeout.

[ianhyzy]

@girish I uplaoded a small 3MB video as a test with no issues

[ianhyzy]

@ianhyzy this is what shows up in the dev console. It was roughly 60 seconds so it may be a timeout thing.

[girish]

@ianhyzy I tried to upload a big video file here ~600MB (big buck bunny) and this takes forever. What I recommend is to maybe upload it to some file server and then import via URL - https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use-create-upload-video . If you don't have a file server, you can install surfer and scp the file into it's data directory and then surfer will give you a public link that you can put inside peertube. Somehow, I don't think browsers are meant to upload such large files reliably.

@nebulon how did you manage to import the large videos in our peertube instance?

[nebulon]

@girish actually I just uploaded via the browser. Depending on upstream bandwidth it takes a bit, but I just left it in the background. None of those videos were over 1Gb though.