How to Post Videos to the Forum

[peepeep]

an alternate title:

Posting Videos from the Wyze App to the Forum

(including Captured on Wyze!)

About the Captured on Wyze category

All those videos you caught on Wyze that you love and think others will love… Or even if you don’t love them and want to inflict them on us anyway. This is the place for that. We listened to you and brought it back because you wanted it #captured-on-wyze: Post anything caught on Wyze that you would like to share with the community … within Community Guidelines of course.

 
A new user generally:

Creates a Wyze Account
Installs the Camera via the Wyze app
Accepts the 14-day Cam Plus trial (for longer clips)
Adjusts the settings to record Events
Accesses them via the Events tab

From the Events tab:

Select and PLAY an Event
Select either or from the displayed Event video

You can’t post directly from the Wyze app to the Forum

Easiest
If you’re ok with Sharing all your stuff to Youtube (privacy, etc) file size won’t matter. Once shared, copy the link and paste it into your Topic on the Wyze Forum.

A little harder
Download the Event to the System Gallery of your device

From there you can determine the size of the file

• Videos up to 5.86 MB can be uploaded to the forum
  Sign-in to the Forum, Create a New Topic, choose a Category, upload your video into the Topic

• Videos of ANY SIZE can be shared to Youtube from here as well (see ‘Easiest’ above)
  A Youtube link will appear ‘inline’ as a video on the Forum - and on most other platforms!

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Some things to know:

-You cannot post directly from the Wyze app to the Forum
-You can only post a single Event at a time
-You must select and PLAY an Event to access the needed controls
-The size of the Event determines how you can post it
-You can drag-and-drop a file directly into a post
-A new user of the Forum may need to have a moderator upgrade their initial trust level to upload
-A Youtube link will appear ‘inline’ as a video on the Forum - and on most other platforms!
-Some say Google is evil.

You cannot determine the size of an Event until you save it to the System Gallery (nowhere within the app, including the Events tab and the Album, is the file size of an Event or other saved clip discoverable.)

Videos up to 5.86 MB can be uploaded to the forum
Videos of ANY SIZE can be shared to Youtube and its link manually posted to the forum.

In Progress…

Comments, corrections, welcome…

[peepeep]

A depiction:

 

 

And here’s what I was able to find in Wyze Help:

 

 

I’m an atypical user so it was useful for me to walk through this.
Thanks @secondary_2g @SlabSlayer !

[peepeep]

Footage Recorded Locally to the SD Card
How to retrieve and post

A good demo:
 

@Antonius

I have to edit and shorten most of the V3 videos since the max size here is 5 MB. The videos from the WCO cameras are only 12 seconds so they load here just fine.

Trash panda eating my bird seed

For the V3 camera videos I just view playback of the event on the SD card, tap record to start and stop to get a small clip. That short video is then saved in my iPhone/iPad photo album. I either post from the phone/iPad or email it to myself and post via my PC. [SD Play]

Trash panda eating my bird seed

I am using a V3 camera and do not need to take the card out to view play back and record. If you are using the battery powered WYZE Cam Outdoor you need to take the card out. For the V3 this is what I do. Step 1.Open the events page on the app and tap on an event video. [1] Step 2. When the video starts to play or even when it ends just tap play back at the bottom of the page. [2] When the video is playing back from the SD card tap record button to start and stop, video is saved to iPhone…

[peepeep]

Bug Note/Workaround:

Footage Recorded Manually in the App
Not cloud Event files

@Seapup

…A bug exists in the Wyze app (perhaps Android only). Downloaded cloud events are properly encoded and play without error. But using the Wyze app to manually record a video (from SD playback, time lapse, WCO scheduled recording, etc.) results in an improperly encoded video. When these improperly encoded videos are subsequently uploaded to this forum and viewed in most browsers, they won’t play…

Amazon Delivery Guy Grabs some Goodies

If you’re not familiar with video formatting tools, the easiest solution is to blindly convert manually recorded footage via an online tool. 123 Apps has lots of cool tools, they are free to use and safe. 123 Apps’ Online Video Converter is extremely quick, efficient and most important… simple. You do not need to create a 123 Apps account to use the tools. Even if your file is already .mp4 or .mov, go to Online Video Converter from a browser. Either navigate to and select your source video fi…

Or…

@carverofchoice

You can try to open it in another video program, then ask that program save it as a different file, and see if it will do the proper re-encoding. Some people do this with something like VLC on their computer for example. There are probably countless other ways to do it too.

Or you can just tag Seapup to fix it for you. He’s been VERY nice and accommodating in helping to fix it so the rest of us can see the videos easily, and he’s a nice guy.

Details:

@Seapup

When the Wyze app creates the mp4 file, the mp4 container is correct, but there’s something wrong with the encoding. I suspect it’s a bug in whatever they use to encode. There must be 2 different code plug-ins used because a standard Event file displays correctly, but a manually recorded video does not…

@Seapup

When converting, the output video stream codec needs to be “H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part10) (avc1)” to work in Chrome and most other browsers. The audio stream doesn’t really matter.

[hv.lewis]

I tried to submit a post, but it demand I add 2 tags, whatever that means??
How do i do that???

[peepeep]

As you create a new Topic, provide a Title, choose a Category (1), select the first Tag (2), and another list will open for you to select the second (3).

[tc10]

this is great thanks. I also create a video by using iPhone or iPad screen capture and then upload it to youtube, save it private and share the link. Works great as well for longer videos.