Video File Uploads | anvil.server.TimeoutError

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What I’m trying to do:
I’m trying to successfully save end-user submitted videos (via File Loader component) to an Anvil Data Table. In scenarios where the video file is greater/larger than 10MB, I receive the error ‘anvil.server.TimeoutError:’.

What I’ve tried and what’s not working:
I don’t know how to overcome this challenge so I haven’t tried anything yet but, perhaps the solution is to add code to Native Library which compresseses the user submitted video before saving to Anvil Data Table.

Code Sample:

@anvil.server.callable
def save_orig_video(file, url):
    # Assuming 'public' table has a column named 'user_video_file' for storing the video file
    user = anvil.users.get_user()
    if user:
      user_account = user['user_acct_number']
      row = app_tables.public.get(user_acct_number=user_account)  # Find User row in Public datatable via user's account number
      if row:
        row['blob_url'] = url
        row['user_input_video'] = file
        row['input_vid_datetime'] = datetime.datetime.now()
        row['processed_video'] = None
        row['processed_vid_datetime'] = None
      else: 
        app_tables.public.add_row(user_acct_number=user_account, blob_url=url, user_input_video=file, input_vid_datetime=datetime.datetime.now())
    else:
      return "Please log-in to your account"
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Have a look at Timeout on large file upload

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Thank you, Owen. I’ll give it a try.