#13 - add flag to get video time from its metadata

bin/etc/python/vars_register_media.py

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def sha512_from_uri(uri: str) -> str:
     p.unlink()  # Delete the file
     return checksum
 
-def main(camera_id: str, deployment_id: str, uri: str):
+def main(camera_id: str, deployment_id: str, uri: str, extracttime: bool=False) -> None:
     vam_url = os.environ["VAMPIRE_SQUID_URL"]
     vam_secret = os.environ["VAMPIRESQUID_CLIENT_SECRET"]
     vampire_squid = VampireSquid(vam_url)
@@ -49,8 +49,12 @@ def main(camera_id: str, deployment_id: str, uri: str):
         print(f"Reading video metadata from {uri}")
         video_metadata = ffprobe.ffprobe(uri).video_metadata()
 
-        start_time_utc = timeutil.datetime_from_name(uri)
-        time_str_full = start_time_utc.isoformat()
+        if extracttime:
+            start_time_utc = video_metadata.created
+        else:
+            start_time_utc = timeutil.datetime_from_name(uri)
+
+        time_str_full = start_time_utc.isoformat()  
         time_str_compact = start_time_utc.strftime("%Y%m%dT%H%M%S.%fZ")
 
         mime_type = media_type(uri)
@@ -102,5 +106,6 @@ def main(camera_id: str, deployment_id: str, uri: str):
         type=str)
     parser.add_argument("uri", help="The URL to the media file e.g. http://my.servername.org/media/D1234_20190201T120000Z.mp4", 
         type=str)
+    parser.add_argument('-e', '--extracttime', action='store_true', help="Extract the creation time from the video metadata. Default is to parse the filename" )
     args = parser.parse_args()
-    main(args.camera_id, args.deployment_id, args.uri)
+    main(args.camera_id, args.deployment_id, args.uri, args.extracttime)

bin/etc/python/vars_register_medias_on_web.py

@@ -11,11 +11,14 @@ def readDirListing(url: str) -> List[str]:
     cwd, listing = htmllistparse.fetch_listing(url, timeout=30)
     return map(lambda x: f'{url}{x.name}', listing)
 
-def main(camera_id: str, deployment_id: str, url: str):
+def main(camera_id: str, deployment_id: str, url: str, extracttime: bool=False) -> None:
     urls = readDirListing(url)
     for uri in urls:
         print(f"Processing {uri}")
-        vars_register_media.main(camera_id, deployment_id, uri)
+        try: 
+            vars_register_media.main(camera_id, deployment_id, uri, extracttime)
+        except Exception as e:
+            print("An exception occured: {e}")
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
@@ -25,5 +28,6 @@ def main(camera_id: str, deployment_id: str, url: str):
         type=str)
     parser.add_argument("url", help="The URL to the video directory e.g. http://my.servername.org/media/D1234_EX1234", 
         type=str)
+    parser.add_argument('-e', '--extracttime', action='store_true', help="Extract the creation time from the video metadata. Default is to parse the filename" )
     args = parser.parse_args()
-    main(args.camera_id, args.deployment_id, args.url)
+    main(args.camera_id, args.deployment_id, args.url, args.extracttime)

bin/media_metadata.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams "$1"