Issues with MD5 Hash on Batch Upload

[mizdflop]

Hello, 

For the last 6 months or so we've been creating multiple mp4 renditions and batch uploading. We created a PHP script that made our XML manifest. Until a couple of weeks ago all was working fine. But recently we've been getting errors that the MD5 hashes we create don't match those created on the BC servers. e.g.:

'XXX.mp4': The hash computed for the uploaded file does not match the hash reported for the file before upload. 

As always we've been using the MD5_file() function in PHP. We're running the PHP through the command line module on an OS X box.

Any thoughts on how we might trouble shoot? Or any idea why this might have started happening recently?

thanks.  

[BC-dongsheng]

hi, could you share with me two things: an erroe message you have got, and the php script you are using?

You can sent that to my email dwang at brightcove.com. I will get back to you as soon as I can.

ds

[Ashoka]

It may help to include in both the webpage and the function description that files with same sizes are checked first, before their hashes are computed. -It may help to optionally simply provide a list of the duplicates along with the original files, instead of deleting them. -It may help to provide an option where the duplicate file with the older date gets deleted.

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[BC-Terran]

Has this been resolved yet? You may want to try using md5 directly from the command line and see if the results are the same as your perl script.

[cgranier]

Would it be possible to get a copy of this script? I'm about to write my own, but would love to save some time if possible.

Thanks!

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mizdflop wrote:

Hello, 

For the last 6 months or so we've been creating multiple mp4 renditions and batch uploading. We created a PHP script that made our XML manifest

[mizdflop]

Yeah, I'm happy to share. Email me at jayhuntsfish ATSIGN gmail.com

I'll send it 

[cgranier]

Thanks, I really appreciate it. Sent you an email from my pongalo.com address.

[BC-ChrisD]

I know it's only been a day but if you find a resolution to this can you post it back to the forums? I understand you might not want to share all of your code but it would likely be beneficial to others as many are using PHP to generate their Batch manifests.

Thanks

[aw]

I have the same problem. My md5 hash code seems to be different from the BC server. I use the PHP md5_file($filename) function, the result is the same like i checked it with the  MD5 für windows tool (that you recommend in your docs).

The same is with the filesize (filesize($filename). Its the correct filesize, but the BC  size its a little bit different. So i can't upload the videos.

Do you have any ideas?

[Deckard]

Same problem here with Java code under Ubuntu. md5sum tool returns the same hash code computed by code.

Tell me if I'm right : XML manifest must be uploaded after video upload is complete ?

Lets's say, XML manifest is uploaded before the end of video upload, could the problem come from the fact you check hash code before the end of video upload ? So the md5 sum is wrong ?