YouTubeFS -- libav* decoder is giving garbage

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Wendell said not to, but hey I found an excuse for my cyber law class.

Status right now is it can encode and upload (given secrets.json) files encoded as YouTube videos. Data density hasn’t yet been optimized, but more importantly I can’t seem to get frame decoding working. Unfortunately, #ffmpeg has no interest in code problems right now.

The issue is in decode.cpp:decodeVideoToFrames().

Once this is done, I’m hoping there’s an easy way to treat these videos as arrays of disks and throw proper file systems on them.

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Shameless Bump

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I'm not sure what the point of this is.

Why don't you make a readme.md on the repo that actually explains what the function of this software is.

Is this designed to store normal data within youtube videos, or is it designed to create a representation of youtube videos as files?

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Sorry -- didn't think of it.
It is to stores regular files in youtube videos.

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Oh cool. So, it sounds like it's having issues with the downloads?

I'm not familiar with this sort of software, I'm more web-based, but I hope it all turns out well for you.

Once this is done, I'm hoping there's an easy way to treat these videos as arrays of disks and throw proper file systems on them.

Theoretically, it is possible, but not recommended. It's best practice and more efficient for your software to be an implementation of FUSE, from what I've read.

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Downloading is done. Decoding is failing.

FUSE can operate of an array of disk without problem and is actually separate from filesystems. FUSE just loads them in userspace through an appropriate software layer, Like sshfs.