[Enhancement]: Increase video length limit to match other platforms (YouTube) at 3 minutes.

[RSXEnthusiast]

Description

Maybe this is totally out of scope for Loops, but I create my short form content to a 3 minute time limit, as that's what YouTube's limit for a short is. This means that I cannot upload my short form content to Loops. Maybe this could be a server option or maybe it could be the default or maybe, like I mentioned earlier, it's completely out of scope for Loops.

Use-case

This would allow users to upload 3 minute long short form content, as is allowed with YouTube shorts, meaning Loops would potentially see more content crossover from YouTube.

Acknowledgements

Yes

[Barbapulpe]

I suggest making it configurable, either using an env variable, either thru the admin panel.

[Skivling]

If so, when creators are signing up they should easily be able to see what the length limit is before they join.

[joergi]

I uploaded that one, which has 2:58. Maybe reduce yours to 2:59 and it will work?

https://loops.video/v/bNEkgbjKrj

[RSXEnthusiast]

@joergi I was also able to upload a 3 minute long video (2:58 or something), but when I watched it back it'd been automatically trimmed to just be the first minute.

[joergi]

I uploaded the video again,to verify if it's a new bug and out still works.

https://loops.video/v/bZkcQWVxhK (I will delete this video in a few days)

I used an already compromised video for the upload, the 2:58 min are only having 30mb

So for me, on loops.Video it's working.

[RSXEnthusiast]

That's incredibly strange, considering that this ^ is what loops.video tells me when uploading.

Here's the video I uploaded:

https://loops.video/v/bZle17QnhT

And here's the original on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/shorts/A-X-1NFPQcU

I uploaded the same 1.7GB file to both. I wonder if it's a bug/workaround to upload longer videos if you compress it first, instead of allowing Loops to compress it for you. I might have a try at compressing the video to under 40MB before uploading.

[joergi]

Try to send this video yourself via signal (pretty good commissing) or download the video via yt downoader in a small resolution....

But yeah, maybe the error handling here is something you can have a look again @dansup ?

[RSXEnthusiast]

Alright, I've done more testing and have not been able to successfully bypass the 1 minute limit.

I first tried compressing it by rendering at a super low bitrate in DaVinci resolve. This resulted in a 33MiB file, which Loops.Video would not accept:

I then did as you suggested and compressed it with Signal, but that only got it to just under 60MB which was, again, cut off after a minute when uploaded to Loops.video:

https://loops.video/v/bZoWLBNmiC

I then used a crappy online video compressor to half the size of the 60MB file, resulting in a 36MiB file which, again, Loops.video chopped down to 1 minute when uploaded:

https://loops.video/v/bZp4NIFMiG

I just don't seem to be able to bypass the length restriction as you have, maybe it's different for landscape video or something?

Edit: Thought I'd try a random 4+ minute landscape video just to see, and this is what happened (no video, just audio), so that can't be intended... But it is still chopped to 1 minute long.

https://loops.video/v/bZpoZ5xSi-

[joergi]

@dansup - maybe you can help?

[dansup]

Done!