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VideoCutTool is a tool to trim, crop, rotate on-the-fly videos in Wikimedia Commons. It is hosted in Wikimedia Toolforge and can be found at https://tools.wmflabs.org/video-cut-tool/

Background

As a feature request, On selecting the required "Step1: Adjust Video Settings" and by clicking on the "Preview" button, VideoCutTool displays the loading spinner and then encode the video in the back-end server.

This might not be as user-friendly as the users might not know how much progress did the video encoding processed.

Task:

• Learn about VideoCutTool from Commons: VideoCutTool
• Implement a standard progress bar that shows the percentage of video encoding which is done by using ffmpeg. Progress could be tracked and estimated by, for example, the current video timestamp / entire duration.
• A web server -> client pushing mechanism for updating the progress is preferred, using for example Socket.IO

Code Repos:

• VideoCutTool-front-end: https://github.com/gopavasanth/video-cut-tool/
• VideoCutTool-back-end: https://github.com/gopavasanth/video-cut-tool-back-end/