generate error messages on Transcode failures

[Ironman28]

This clip failed to transcode and then did not respond to a manual transcode command from me:
http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/mlangford/clips/chinatown-sequence-analysis
When clips fail to transcode, should there be a warning or explanation (e.g., file type not allowed; file size over limit, etc.)?
I also note that this clip appears with an image icon - not sure if this is related

[Ironman28]

Okay, so I just had to delete that clip for the user, who admitted that it may have been a bad original file. However, the other clip that did not transcode automatically is still there:
http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/MCIMR/clips/love-and-duration

One difference seems to be that the deleted clip threw a MIME error message, whereas this one might work after doing a manual transcode (i.e., it did not generate a Mime error)

[mgogoulos]

As you can see on the screenshot the file (love-and-duration) is 906 bytes size, it is definitely not a valid video file. Most probably the user uploaded the wrong file, or somehow upload was corrupted. I agree that the system should warn about the fact that it tried to transcode it and has failed for xyz reason. This is one of the most critical tickets that exist in Plumi in my opinion. It is a common scenario that transcoding will fail (wrong video upload, corrupted video, etc) so the user has to be notified in order to upload the correct video! Should be fixed in plumi.content package of Plumi

[ahelme]

so instead we should generate a decent error message for these transcode failures, and an email notification to Steve (Manager role) and the user should be generated

[ahelme]

This would be great for Plumi, it's true!