Uploading a GIF (From Linux) leads to error: "Media could not be displayed"

[jetley]

Hi,

I'm working on a bot where it randomly uploads media (still images or gifs) to Twitter. It works fine whne it's a still image, but when it's a GIF, the GIF can't be shown on Twitter: "Media couldn't be displayed" (Link for reference).

I've tried uploading the GIF manually to another account and there's not a single problem, the GIF can be displayed correctly, so there's no error when exporting the media to a GIF (since it's made with FFMPEG).

This is the code I'm using for uploading:

mediaUpload = api.media_upload(filename="./media_upload/GIF.gif", chunked=True, media_category="tweet_gif")
api.create_media_metadata(mediaUpload.media_id_string, altText)
api.update_status(data[5], media_ids=[mediaUpload.media_id_string])

The real problem: It works fine when the code is executed from Windows 11. The "Media could not be displayed" error ocurrs when the bot it's running under Debian GNU (Where the bot is hosted). In both Windows 11 and Debian, I'm using the latest stable version of Tweepy.

[lebraat]

Hey @jetley

Can you please further explain what you mean when you say 'I've tried uploading the GIF manually to another account':

• How are you uploading manually?
• Which other account?

And can you confirm that my reiteration of your problem is correct:
So far, you've identified that this is only an issue when executing the request via Debian.

[jetley]

Hi,

Thanks for replying (and sorry for my late reply).

I will try to explain myself better: When I say "I tried to upload the GIF manually" i mean the following: I uploaded the GIF to my personal account via twitter's desktop web page (drag and drop method) and it works fine. GIF is shown correctly when uploaded. Therefore, the GIF itself is not the problem but the SO from where it is being uploaded (in my case, Debian). The code used to upload in both Win11 and Debian is exactly the same.

For the moment, I'm considering making a few different VMs with different Linux distros in order to determine more closely the problem. If the issue only happens to exist in Debian, I can switch to another OS effortlessly.

[jetley]

Hi, any updates on this bug?...

[Harmon758]

@boidushya Please don't ghost ping.

Regardless, a reproducible example (MCVE/SSCCE) is necessary here.
Although, if this is an OS-specific issue, I don't have an easy way of reproducing it on my end.
This seems likely an issue on Twitter's end anyway, but Daniel (lebraat) no longer works at Twitter, so I don't really have any means of following up to see if it is or not anymore.

[boidushya]

my bad Was having this issue but I managed to resolve it by using chunk based upload with chunk=True. Thought that might resolve it but OP was already doing that.

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[jakeonfire]

if anybody encounters this issue, i was able to solve it per the nice documentation summary here: sferik/x-ruby#22 (comment)