Why file upload does not accept mp4 files?

API Bugs
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When I try to file upload a video file foo.mp4 programmatically, I get error:

“Invalid file format video/mp4. Supported formats: "c", "cpp", "css", "csv", "docx", "gif", "html", "java", "jpeg", "jpg", "js", "json", "md", "pdf", "php", "png", "pptx", "py", "rb", "tar", "tex", "ts", "txt", "webp", "xlsx", "xml", "zip"”,
“param”: null,

However, in ChatGPT textbox, I can upload the same video file. In fact, gpt-4o is even able to analyze the contents of the video - nice !

Is the API “behind” the Chatgpt interface ?

Thanks
Sean

2

Hello Sean, depending on what you need to do you can try to upload the frames then the audio. You can analyse the audio using whisper

3

Loading frames is cumbersome and it doesnt tel the whole story of the Video - its at best a stop gap measure for now. Why is it that if I loaded the Video via chatpgpt text interface with the file icon option, I can load a mp4 file and it does analyze it contents decently well. Why is that not available via the API?

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ChatGPT is a whole product. The API is not the API for ChatGPT. The API is intended for devs to create their own products/services. Anyway, OpenAI will probably enable uploading video in the future when gpt-4o realizes its full modal potential.

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