Video Files cannot be translated ('wagtailmedia.Media')

[hennabanana]

Hi there,

currently its not possible to upload a Video for a Video-Media-File in a another language (https://github.com/torchbox/wagtailmedia). After Translating the Page, its just empty.

is it possible to add this datatype so that i can upload an video in another language by the MediaChooserPanel?

class VideoSlidePage(Page):

   video = models.ForeignKey(
        'wagtailmedia.Media',
        null=True,
        blank=True,
        verbose_name=_('Video'),
        on_delete=models.SET_NULL,
        related_name='+' )

[zerolab]

Hey @hennabanana,
thank you for bringing this up.

Hmm, I would've thought this would be handled by the fallback logic. Will try to have a look sometime soon.

[zerolab]

Had a look over the weekend. This will require more work as localize doesn't know which chooser to use.

[catilgan-nextension]

Hi @zerolab

Is there any chance that this feature will be implemented in near future? We need support for translating the audio files in StreamField fields. Currently, the UI in translation view only shows the foreign key of the media model.

I tried to implement the functionality by myself within the test application, but it's rather a "hacky" solution. So, we would be glad, if there is an official support for media files.

Thanks for the great work on the Wagtail Localize and Wagtail Media projects.

[catilgan-nextension]

Hi @zerolab

I implemented the missing chooser logic in our own fork and created a pull-request (#847). I hope my implementation helps to fix this issue.

Unfortunately, the dependency checks are failing due to code formatting issues. Thanks for the support.

[zerolab]

Thanks @catilgan-nextension, will try to have a look soon. The main consideration is we can't make wagtailmedia a dependency, so the code would need to check that wagtailmedia is an installed app

[catilgan-nextension]

Thanks @zerolab for your reply and looking into this issue.

Yes, i understand your point with the dependency of wagtailmedia, since it's not a Wagtail core module. Nonetheless, the wagtailmedia is such an important module for most Wagtail sites, at least for us, the localization workflow should to be working for media files. This dependency might be "acceptable" in this case.

[zerolab]

Let's carry over this discussion on the PR. As I mentioned, we need to avoid tight coupling with a third-party package (even if it happens that I maintain both 🙈 )