Video

[ApplianceJunk]

Sounds great!

The video mod requires a thumbnail/picture of the video in order to add the video to the gallery.

Would we have to manually make a thumbnail/picture of the video?

[SMFHacks]

Yes you would need to manually create the thumbnail

[Rafferty]

Well looks great and everything seems to work Ok this end, How would they be added, same setup as member uploads and can a thumbnail be added on upload at all or maybe just a description?

[ApplianceJunk]

Yes you would need to manually create the thumbnail

This maybe ok for the forum owners, but I don't see the forum members being able to do this.

[SMFHacks]

 

Well looks great and everything seems to work Ok this end, How would they be added, same setup as member uploads and can a thumbnail be added on upload at all or maybe just a description?

Works almost the same as a picture upload. Just instead you are uploading a video file. The thumbnail is not required and if no thumbnail is selected just uses a generic image.

This maybe ok for the forum owners, but I don't see the forum members being able to do this.

There is no easy way to get an image of a video file more so when the video file can be in multiple formats.
If they do not select a thumbnail image a generic video icon will be used instead.

[Rafferty]

Sounds fine, as long as the videos can show a descriptive "title" as do the photos and not a file name. But sounds like it does. I like, great job

[ApplianceJunk]

There is no easy way to get an image of a video file more so when the video file can be in multiple formats.

It may not be easy, but we know you can do it. 

If they do not select a thumbnail image a generic video icon will be used instead.

This will work too.

[smalldonkey]

So where is this mod??

[SMFHacks]

Out soon later today.

[ApplianceJunk]

Out soon later today.

  

[olandir]

Wow,

I make one suggestion and like a week later there's already a mod... this is GREAT!!!

I'm going to use this on my client's website immediately. I was going to link SMF with Coppermine because he needed video support but this is MUCH better!

Thanks

[smalldonkey]

lol.... really... it was you that did all that?  you are funny!

[ApplianceJunk]

Could you guys that are going to put this mod to use post the URL's you have it installed on so I could check them out?

Thanks,

[smalldonkey]

I am trying to get it up at AdventureBC   dot    com.    Depending on how it goes  CanadianHorseWorld  dot  com will also have it.  And I am hoping to add it as a stand alone at AllMountainSkiing  dot  com (but I am not sure how to make that work).

[olandir]

Well I've installed the mod on my client's site and it works great. It was very easy to change the PHP.ini on the hosted environment I am using (godaddy) so that was not a problem.

The mod works just as expected.

It hink for the future of the mod there are a few minor and one major change that I'd like to see.

Minor - When you upload a video, the text should change so that wherever it says "picture" it should say video when viewing it.

Minor - It should also get rid of the linking codes at the bottom (since they are all for pictures) if the settings are set to show them.

Major - Auto thumbnail generation. This may be easier if the mod converts the uploaded video to a flash player... for right now though, the generic icon is good. Not something critical.

I really like this mod and I certainly don't mind paying for it at all, I hope more is done with it in the future.