How to upload a video picked from user into firebase? - flutter

Question

Im trying to upload a video into firebase .But theres a problem ,the more videos I upload, the more space a video needs. Im only uploading one video the same time . The video is picked from user . And when user picked the first video and when video duration is about 2 seconds long, it gets very fast uploaded. Then on the next also 2 or 3 seconds duration it takes a bit more time then the first but still ok . And then like on the 4 video ,its need very much time. And the video ist again 2 or 3 seconds recording but storage like 13 minutes . And im not getting why. This only is resolved when im using a new android emulator. it dont care when im deleting all data from firebase and like recording the first video into it .
Hope anyone can example why this error happen.
Heres my code
final allvideos = FirebaseStorage.instance.ref().child('allvideos');
final allimages = FirebaseStorage.instance.ref().child('allimages');
uploadVideo() async {
setState(() {
isuploading = true;
});
try {
var firebaseuseruid = FirebaseAuth.instance.currentUser.uid;
DocumentSnapshot userdoc = await FirebaseFirestore.instance
.collection('meinprofilsettings')
.doc(firebaseuseruid)
.get();
var alldocs = await FirebaseFirestore.instance.collection('videos').get();
int length = alldocs.docs.length;
String videourl = await uploadvideotostorage("Video $length");
String previewimage = await uploadimagetostorage("Video $length");
FirebaseFirestore.instance.collection('videos').doc("Video $length").set({
'username': userdoc.data()['username'],
'uid': firebaseuseruid,
'profilepic': userdoc.data()['url'],
'id':"Video $length",
'likes': [],
'commentcount': 0,
'sharecount': 0,
'hashtag1': hashtagcontroller.text,
'hashtag2': hashtagcontroller2.text,
'hashtag3': hashtagcontroller3.text,
'videourl': videourl,
'previewimage': previewimage,
'ratings': [],
});
Navigator.pop(context);
} catch (e) {
print(e.toString());
}
}
}
Heres how I upload it
the picture is for preview picture
getpreviewimage() async {
final previewimage = await flutterVideoCompress.getThumbnailWithFile(
widget.videopath_asstring,
);
return previewimage;
}
compressvideo() async {
if (widget.imageSource == ImageSource.gallery) {
return widget.videofile;
} else {
final compressvideo = await flutterVideoCompress.compressVideo(
widget.videopath_asstring,
quality: VideoQuality.MediumQuality);
return File(compressvideo.path);
}
}
uploadvideotostorage(String id) async {
final video = await allvideos.child(id).putFile(await compressvideo());
String url = await video.ref.getDownloadURL();
return url;
}
uploadimagetostorage(String id) async {
final video = await allimages.child(id).putFile(await getpreviewimage());
String url = await video.ref.getDownloadURL();
id=url;
return url;
}

Answer 1

Use something like this to generate your random ID:
import 'dart:math';
import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
String generateId() {
int randomNumber = Random().nextInt(9999999);
String now = DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch.toString().substring(7);
String formatted = DateFormat('MMdh').format(DateTime.now());
return randomNumber.toString() + formatted + now;
}
Change your upload function to look like this:
Future<String> uploadvideotostorage(String id) async {
final video = await allvideos.child(id).putFile(await compressvideo());
String url = await video.ref.getDownloadURL();
return url;
}
When you create a video, assign it a random id like this:
String randomlyGeneratedId = generateId();
Finally, to get your download URL back:
String finalVideoURL = await uploadvideotostorage(randomlyGeneratedId);