Media Upload - 800MB and FTP plus errors when laptop sleeps during upload

Thanks for your replies Daniel.

I think the size is rather small; a 4K source file will blow through that cap well before a neat edit point arrives. Down-coverting works, whilst stripping sharpness from the footage — and we have some detailed screen work to convey. It would not be such an issue if split videos ‘tripped’ from one to another without requiring a user click, but I don’t think I can trigger that action.

I’ll have a crack at Vimeo streaming to test my workflow. I wonder if it is a direct pass-thru’ from Vimeo or YT or if it is squeezed via Docebo’s own hosting? Are they are any official technical documents regarding the media/stream management offered @Docebo?

Best,

Phil

Hi @FitzySol 

I feel your pain. I put some videos into Docebo for the first time today and I am not impressed with the  performance. My videos are short so for now at least I’m OK with the limit. I suspect I will gradually move toward that limit over time however. The fact that users aren’t automatically notified if new or revised media is uploaded to an existing course is a major hit for me. I created a mock up with 2 videos, after I completed the first one, reports marked me at 50% and in progress. When I completed the second one it marked 100% and complete… a good thing. But now I added a third video to the group...simulating adding additional content. When I checked the course report report it still showed me at 100%  complete but 66% progress on the individual user line, even though the individual video records clearly showed I had only viewed 2 of the 3. In addition, from the learners perspective it continued to show completed so as a learner I would never know new material was added unless I opened the course and saw the incomplete object. The individual user report showed me at 66% and appeared to be correct. I did not try to overwrite a video with another version, but I did notice in all instances that the version line was empty.  Another problem is that the record provides a course score on the overall course dashboard  for each learner and it does not on the individual learner dashboard. (when you click a learners name to open their individual record.) These mare NOT SCORM objects… why is there a score of  0 sitting there?? These things are probably small to Docebo but they are a big deal to me, primarily because they make my job of administrating the courses/videos much harder. In there defense they do have a little eyeball icon that lands on the course records page to make identifying people who registered a completion before a new object was added a bit easier, but it would be nice if they carried that info a bit further and pushed something out to the user. They need to set the default playback to the highest quality and not “automatic”. The videos I used in this test were done at 1080. I had to select that manually during playback. To be honest, I don’t think I saw 4K on it, so maybe the best they do is 1080?? Not sure.

My overall assessment is that Docebo has some homework to do!

As for the original question, the other icon is Wistia. You can bring videos into Docebo via YouTube, Vimeo, or Wistia. I have quite a few customers who use Vimeo to avoid the 800MB file size limit on Docebo but I do agree with some of the previous advice that compressing videos is good to help with playback anyway and generally on devices most users access training from, you’re really not going to get the 4K quality anyway. Just my opinion.

Hope this helps!

If you are using an SSO and your video platform also uses it, you can still iframe embed without the security concern, I get not all users, but not always an issue. 

Straight iframe for informational content in html widgets and such on pages, if going into a course, easier enough to make a simple scorm wrapper and include the video and manage the video controls if you are worried about such things and then use that. The reality is, unless you’re using a platform that allows the video to communicate based on playing time….all videos are essentially complete once you start playing (even if you force the user to play all the way through, that’s just security theater).

Especially in the day of rise courses and similar, it is easy enough to make like a ‘video course template’ drop your frame in and go. Also helps with the ‘We added/updated more videos” problem too.