Change Output location on Transcode

[gkrizek]

Is the output location of the video when you transcode it a temporary directory or permanent?

Are you able to change the directory to something that is temporary or permanent, depending on what you want?

Thanks

[gkrizek]

Any ideas here? I would like to be able to write these transcoded videos to a temporary location that automatically gets cleaned out.

I could just create my own way of clearing them, but it would be much easier to just write to a temp directory.

[selsamman]

It seems that the API places the file in the same directory as the input file. Can you not just move the file after you transcode it? That was the way I approached it my app.

[gkrizek]

Hmmm. My original file is in: /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/22054F35-31B1-41F7-9257-61A4E9E3B3F4/tmp/capture-T0x146d14a40.tmp.JnGasA/capturedvideo.MOV and my output file goes into: /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/22054F35-31B1-41F7-9257-61A4E9E3B3F4/Library/Caches/38Rza4wk2eSG2qkGh.mp4

Are those the same thing just sym-linked or something? Yes, I could just move it. But adding the ability to specify where it is written seems like a good and efficient feature.

[selsamman]

Sorry about that. I didn't realize this because I always move the file afterwards :-)

[Redmage3555]

+1, it'd be great if we could choose to transcode to the temp directory rather than to the library or not. (where does it save the file when not saving to library? - the code isn't very clear and my app is broken at the moment)