Thanks for the update Arne. This issue is specifically about Guix packaging, so to save us losing track of your update, please post it to the dedicated mediagoblin-de...@gnu.org thread we started a couple of months back:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/mediagoblin-devel/2021-03/msg00026.html Thanks again, Ben On Wed, 05 May 2021, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Hi, > > I just added non-flickering video-change to the m3u-player. Attaching > the file. I thought that could be useful for MediaGoblin. The file is > attached. > > > Best wishes, > Arne > > > Ben Sturmfels via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> writes: > >> On Tue, 30 Mar 2021, Ben Sturmfels wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 19 Mar 2021, Ben Sturmfels wrote: >> >>>> 8. Either package RabbitMQ (probably hard) or rewrite MediaGoblin's >>>> processing backend from Celery/RabbitMQ to RQ/Redis. Celery has been >>>> implicated in many bugs anyway, so there may benefits to the project to >>>> doing this anyway. >>> >>> I learnt that Celery has a Redis backend, so maybe we don't need to >>> rewrite just yet. >> >> It turns out that MediaGoblin's Celery-based media processing backend >> work out of the box by simply configuring: >> >> [celery] >> BROKER_URL = "redis://" >> >> (There seems to be an unrelated bug where media is marked as failed after >> restarting Celery, possibly tied to sqlite. We've had reports of this >> with a RabbitMQ broker too though.) >> >> >> This means our shorter to-do list is now: >> >> 1. Upstream our new python-soundfile Guix package from guix-env.scm when >> core-updates is merged. >> >> 2. Upstream our upgraded python-wtforms package. >> >> 6. Convert MediaGoblin's jQuery-based JavaScript to use vanilla JS. >> Video and audio are essentially functional without the NPM installed >> players. Some later refinements perhaps. >> >> 4. Package MediaGoblin itself. The build process is ./configure/make >> which is a bit weird for a Python project. >> >> 5. Get a basic Guix service working, with sqlite3 and without the >> offloaded media transcoding currently using Celery task queue with a >> Redis broker. >> >> 7. Work out why H264 support is missing. >> >> 8. Figure out how to deal with translations. >> >> 9. Add a PostgreSQL database to the Guix service instead of sqlite3. >> >> Regards, >> Ben
