> **TLDR: **when we record a video on Lingualibre.org, send it to commons.wikimedia.org , we likely loose some metadata because the video appears on Wikimedia Commons as an audio file. We need to inspect this further. Videos were ok prior to 2020, [see here for broken vs working Lingualibre videos](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Lingua_Libre_pronunciation-fsl)
> **Critical** This bug is the only blocking piece preventing Sign Language contributors to record sign language videos and elegant Lingua Libre SignIt for Firefox add-on to do outreach and expand internationally.
> "T316113 : Vue dev tools must be allowed" could help.
**List of steps to reproduce**
* Open Special:RecordWizard >
* Step 2: add yourself French Sign language.
* Step 3: Select Sign Language, add few words : "crabe", "poisson" (fish), "lapin" (rabbit).
* Step 4: Record 3 videos and stash them to Lingualibre. (some console.log occurs here)
* Step 5: Review videos - **you may download those video to inspect them** ; Upload files to commons (some console.log occurs here)
**What happens?**:
- When uploaded to Commons, video files are recognized by MediaWiki as audio files.
- On a wiki page, when you add the media via `[[file:my_video.webm]]`, the miniature is an audio player.
- Inspect HTML, Mediawiki indeed embed the files into an `audio` class and element.
- Inspect HTML, change code into a video html tag, it appears as a video.
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- That same file from Commons, when opened in full in the browser, appears as a video. User `[[:media:my_video.webm]]` or `https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/my_video.webm` .
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Downloading the file recorded-stashed on Lingualibre (Step 4) and uploaded-published to Commons (Step 5) shows that **some metadata are missing**.
**Lingua Libre's Record Wizard video recording system may be faulty.** Where ? How ?
**What should have happened instead?**:
- All relevant video metadata should be present when stashed.
- Media should be recognized as video on Commons.
**Software version**: n.a.
**See also:** [Discussion and example](https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=672129734#New_Sign_language_videos_not_displayed_properly) -> might be caused by an issue when uploading to Commons, where bytes (which ones?) are missing.
**Other considerations:**
- Video recording was working properly in early videos (2018, 2019). Example : [Videos by Antoine](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Lingua_Libre_pronunciation-fsl)
- Relevant git repositories :
- [RecordWizard](https://github.com/lingua-libre/RecordWizard) `[JS,PHP]`: the recording system. Received edits in spring 2020, which may have broken the video recording.
- [RecordWizard/modules/rw.VideoRecorder.js](https://github.com/lingua-libre/RecordWizard/blob/master/modules/rw.VideoRecorder.js) (?)
- [Upload2Commons](https://github.com/lingua-libre/Upload2Commons) `[PHP]`: the upload system, unchanged since 2018. (So it's unlikely to be the problem)