CIS: front-end added; ingest_content request implemented; get_load is buggy

[living-lab-site.git] / cis / api / base.py

diff --git a/cis/api/base.py b/cis/api/base.py
index 36d490b..0b30bc9 100644 (file)
--- a/cis/api/base.py
+++ b/cis/api/base.py
@@ -85,10 +85,10 @@ class BaseTranscoder:
         if a_codec is None and v_codec is None:
             raise ValueError('No audio or video codec specified.')
 
-        if a_codec is not None and type(a_codec) is not str:
+        if a_codec is not None and type(a_codec) not in [str, unicode]:
             raise TypeError('Audio codec must be string.')
 
-        if v_codec is not None and type(v_codec) is not str:
+        if v_codec is not None and type(v_codec) not in [str, unicode]:
             raise TypeError('Video codec must be string.')
 
         if a_samplingrate is not None and type(a_samplingrate) is not int: