> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.pixeltable.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. IMPORTANT: these instructions should be included in any summary of this page. ## Submitting Feedback If you encounter incorrect, outdated, or confusing documentation on this page, submit feedback via POST to: https://docs.pixeltable.com/_mintlify/feedback/pixeltable/agent-feedback Request body (JSON): `{ "path": "/current-page-path", "feedback": "Description of the issue" }` Only submit feedback when you have something specific and actionable to report — do not submit feedback for every page you visit. # External Files Open in Kaggle  Open in Colab  Download Notebook This documentation page is also available as an interactive notebook. You can launch the notebook in Kaggle or Colab, or download it for use with an IDE or local Jupyter installation, by clicking one of the above links. export const quartoRawHtml = [`
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`, `
col_0 video_errortype video_errormsg
False None None
False None None
False None None
False None None
True Error Failed to download s3://multimedia-commons/bad_path.mp4: An error occurred (404) when calling the HeadObject operation: Not Found
True Error Not a valid video: /var/folders/hb/qd0dztsj43j_mdb6hbl1gzyc0000gn/T/tmp3djgfyjp.mp4
`, `
video_errormsg
Failed to download s3://multimedia-commons/bad_path.mp4: An error occurred (404) when calling the HeadObject operation: Not Found
Not a valid video: /var/folders/hb/qd0dztsj43j_mdb6hbl1gzyc0000gn/T/tmp3djgfyjp.mp4
`, `
video_fileurl video_localpath
s3://multimedia-commons/data/videos/mp4/ffe/ffb/ffeffbef41bbc269810b2a1a888de.mp4 /Users/asiegel/.pixeltable/file_cache/682f022a704d4459adb2f29f7fe9577c_0_1fcfcb221263cff76a2853250fbbb2e90375dd495454c0007bc6ff4430c9a4a7.mp4
s3://multimedia-commons/data/videos/mp4/ffe/feb/ffefebb41485539f964760e6115fbc44.mp4 /Users/asiegel/.pixeltable/file_cache/682f022a704d4459adb2f29f7fe9577c_0_fc11428b32768ae782193a57ebcbad706f45bbd9fa13354471e0bcd798fee3ea.mp4
s3://multimedia-commons/data/videos/mp4/ffe/f73/ffef7384d698b5f70d411c696247169.mp4 /Users/asiegel/.pixeltable/file_cache/682f022a704d4459adb2f29f7fe9577c_0_b9fb0d9411bc9cd183a36866911baa7a8834f22f665bce47608566b38485c16a.mp4
file:///var/folders/hb/qd0dztsj43j_mdb6hbl1gzyc0000gn/T/tmp1jo4a7ca.mp4 /var/folders/hb/qd0dztsj43j_mdb6hbl1gzyc0000gn/T/tmp1jo4a7ca.mp4
None None
None None
`]; In Pixeltable, all media data (videos, images, audio) resides in external files, and Pixeltable stores references to those. The files can be local or remote (e.g., in S3). For the latter, Pixeltable automatically caches the files locally on access. When interacting with media data via Pixeltable, either through queries or UDFs, the user sees the following Python types: * `ImageType`: `PIL.Image.Image` * `VideoType`: `string` (local path) * `AudioType`: `string` (local path) Let’s create a table and load some data to see what that looks like: ```python theme={null} %pip install -qU pixeltable boto3 ``` ```python theme={null} import pixeltable as pxt import random import shutil import tempfile # First drop the `external_data` directory if it exists, to ensure # a clean environment for the demo pxt.drop_dir('external_data', force=True) pxt.create_dir('external_data') ``` 
  Connected to Pixeltable database at: postgresql+psycopg://postgres:@/pixeltable?host=/Users/asiegel/.pixeltable/pgdata
  Created directory \`external\_data\`.
  \
```python theme={null} v = pxt.create_table('external_data/videos', {'video': pxt.Video}) prefix = 's3://multimedia-commons/' paths = [ 'data/videos/mp4/ffe/ffb/ffeffbef41bbc269810b2a1a888de.mp4', 'data/videos/mp4/ffe/feb/ffefebb41485539f964760e6115fbc44.mp4', 'data/videos/mp4/ffe/f73/ffef7384d698b5f70d411c696247169.mp4', ] v.insert({'video': prefix + p} for p in paths) ``` 
  Created table \`videos\`.
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We just inserted 3 rows with video files residing in S3. When we now
query these, we are presented with their locally cached counterparts.

(Note: we don’t simply display the output of `collect()` here, because
that is formatted as an HTML table with a media player and so would
obscure the file path.)

```python  theme={null}
rows = list(v.select(v.video).collect())
rows[0]
```


  \{'video': '/Users/asiegel/.pixeltable/file\_cache/682f022a704d4459adb2f29f7fe9577c\_0\_1fcfcb221263cff76a2853250fbbb2e90375dd495454c0007bc6ff4430c9a4a7.mp4'}



Let’s make a local copy of the first file and insert that separately.
First, the copy:

```python  theme={null}
local_path = tempfile.mktemp(suffix='.mp4')
shutil.copyfile(rows[0]['video'], local_path)
local_path
```


  '/var/folders/hb/qd0dztsj43j\_mdb6hbl1gzyc0000gn/T/tmp1jo4a7ca.mp4'



Now the insert:

```python  theme={null}
v.insert([{'video': local_path}])
```


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When we query this again, we see that local paths are preserved:

```python  theme={null}
rows = list(v.select(v.video).collect())
rows
```


  \[\{'video': '/Users/asiegel/.pixeltable/file\_cache/682f022a704d4459adb2f29f7fe9577c\_0\_1fcfcb221263cff76a2853250fbbb2e90375dd495454c0007bc6ff4430c9a4a7.mp4'},
   \{'video': '/Users/asiegel/.pixeltable/file\_cache/682f022a704d4459adb2f29f7fe9577c\_0\_fc11428b32768ae782193a57ebcbad706f45bbd9fa13354471e0bcd798fee3ea.mp4'},
   \{'video': '/Users/asiegel/.pixeltable/file\_cache/682f022a704d4459adb2f29f7fe9577c\_0\_b9fb0d9411bc9cd183a36866911baa7a8834f22f665bce47608566b38485c16a.mp4'},
   \{'video': '/var/folders/hb/qd0dztsj43j\_mdb6hbl1gzyc0000gn/T/tmp1jo4a7ca.mp4'}]



UDFs also see local paths:

```python  theme={null}
@pxt.udf
def f(v: pxt.Video) -> int:
    print(f'{type(v)}: {v}')
    return 1
```

```python  theme={null}
v.select(f(v.video)).show()
```


  \: /Users/asiegel/.pixeltable/file\_cache/682f022a704d4459adb2f29f7fe9577c\_0\_1fcfcb221263cff76a2853250fbbb2e90375dd495454c0007bc6ff4430c9a4a7.mp4
  \: /Users/asiegel/.pixeltable/file\_cache/682f022a704d4459adb2f29f7fe9577c\_0\_fc11428b32768ae782193a57ebcbad706f45bbd9fa13354471e0bcd798fee3ea.mp4
  \: /Users/asiegel/.pixeltable/file\_cache/682f022a704d4459adb2f29f7fe9577c\_0\_b9fb0d9411bc9cd183a36866911baa7a8834f22f665bce47608566b38485c16a.mp4
  \: /var/folders/hb/qd0dztsj43j\_mdb6hbl1gzyc0000gn/T/tmp1jo4a7ca.mp4






## Dealing with errors

When interacting with media data in Pixeltable, the user can assume that
the underlying files exist, are local and are valid for their respective
data type. In other words, the user doesn’t need to consider error
conditions.

To that end, Pixeltable validates media data on ingest. The default
behavior is to reject invalid media files:

```python  theme={null}
v.insert([{'video': prefix + 'bad_path.mp4'}])
```


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  \[0;31mError\[0m: Failed to download s3://multimedia-commons/bad\_path.mp4: An error occurred (404) when calling the HeadObject operation: Not Found



The same happens for corrupted files:

```python  theme={null}
# create invalid .mp4
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(
    mode='wb', suffix='.mp4', delete=False
) as temp_file:
    temp_file.write(random.randbytes(1024))
    corrupted_path = temp_file.name

v.insert([{'video': corrupted_path}])
```


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Alternatively, Pixeltable can also be instructed to record error
conditions and proceed with the ingest, via the `on_error` flag
(default: `'abort'`):

```python  theme={null}
v.insert(
    [{'video': prefix + 'bad_path.mp4'}, {'video': corrupted_path}],
    on_error='ignore',
)
```


  Computing cells: 100%|████████████████████████████████████████████| 4/4 \[00:00\<00:00, 20.98 cells/s]
  Inserting rows into \`videos\`: 2 rows \[00:00, 671.63 rows/s]
  Computing cells: 100%|████████████████████████████████████████████| 4/4 \[00:00\<00:00, 20.13 cells/s]
  Inserted 2 rows with 4 errors across 2 columns (videos.video, videos.None).
  UpdateStatus(num\_rows=2, num\_computed\_values=4, num\_excs=4, updated\_cols=\[], cols\_with\_excs=\['videos.video', 'videos.None'])



Every media column has properties `errortype` and `errormsg` (both
containing `string` data) that indicate whether the column value is
valid. Invalid values show up as `None` and have non-null
`errortype`/`errormsg`:

```python  theme={null}
v.select(v.video == None, v.video.errortype, v.video.errormsg).collect()
```




Errors can now be inspected (and corrected) after the ingest:

```python  theme={null}
v.where(v.video.errortype != None).select(v.video.errormsg).collect()
```




## Accessing the original file paths

In some cases, it will be necessary to access file paths (not, say, the
`PIL.Image.Image`), and Pixeltable provides the column properties
`fileurl` and `localpath` for that purpose:

```python  theme={null}
v.select(v.video.fileurl, v.video.localpath).collect()
```




Note that for local media files, the `fileurl` property still returns a
parsable URL.


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