Hi,

I'm using Version 0.3.1 and the latest version of ZP and it all works fine except the video is playing upside down. Any ideas? do I need to tweek some code?

Thanks,

by-product

How difficult would it be to get this to play .mov files instead of flash?

I would actually love just a simple hack of zenphoto to treat video files (extentions defined in config somewhere) as photos and then when you click on them, it just plays when in the locally defined player. I am just looking for easy way for my family/friends to see the videos I take with my camera as easily as they can see photos (with zenphoto).

@steve: Not everyone can play .mov videos, you need to have quickTime installed. ZenVideo uses a flash player to read .flv video files. Actually, almost anyone has a flash plugin for its web browser... I don't think using .mov videos is a good solution BUT it won't be difficult to make zenvideo recognize .mov file : look after the is_valid_video() in the image class. You should look in template functions too for displaying the right viewer.

@permesso: Well your request is similar as steve's one. It needs to modify some part of the code... but the easiest way is still to convert your video in FLV files i suppose. On windows you can use http://www.rivavx.com products, on linux or mac os x, you can use directly ffmpeg to convert your videos.

Cheers for taking the time to reply, its appreciated.

I have a specific setup that requires the display of .mov files, the audience viewing the site will be aware of that and either have the required Quicktime player installed or be prepared to install it. It would be really beneficial to be able to do this from within Zenphoto as my existing site also runs on that, and it would save massive amounts of work to start all over again with a different gallery application.

I will download your Zenphoto files and look in the code for the changes required but I think it will be a little to advanced for my level of experience. If you have the time, any extra details or pointers that you feel like giving for further assistance would be great.

Hi, I'd like to try it, at least on a localhost, is there a tutorial about how to integrate it into zenphoto?

Just an update on this. I now have it running and playing QT movie files with no issues (thanks for the pointers and great code base to work from).

Is it possible to show a different thumbnail for each video as I will be displaying more than one video in each gallery? I am happy to create .jpg of each and name them independently (or the same as the .mov file) but are unsure how to get them to display correctly.

Again many thanks for writing this addition and your previous help :-)

@EdnaGarrett

If you want to run it as designed with no alterations, then it is simply a case of downloading the files and overwriting the originals.(just the changed files will do if you are already running an instance of Zenphoto or download and install the full package if not). The full package comes with all the changes already coded in to the download so there are no edits needed.

The installation process for the full package is the same as doing a full installation of Zenphoto.

Forget my question above, I was being dumb. I made a typo error in the file name for the thumb and was looking elsewhere for the issue thinking it may have had something to do with my edits to the files. Sometimes the solutions are closer to home ;-)

Everything is working great now, I just need to alter the CSS to get things to fit as I want.

@steve, you mentioned some pointers on modifying it for another extension - can you share those? I tweaked it to do mpeg, but would like to see if I went about it the right way, or if I missed something. Thanks!

Issian...the only pointers I had are those shared by La0c00n in the fourth post down but to summarise (in case it helps)...

I edited the expected files type from .flv to .mov (in zen > functions.php)

Then changed the code that calls the flash player to call the QT movie plugin for playing .mov files. This was done in zen > template-function.php.

I also modified the default size of the player window in zen > class-image.php as all my files will be the same default size.

Those where the only three files altered and thankfully La0c00n kindly commented all the code, so finding the correct places was easy.

@Steve, thanks!

@steve:

would you mind copying and pasting in the modifications you made to functions.php and template-functions.php? i gave it a shot myself and realized i hadn't a clue what i was doing. :S

would be much appreciated!

hi, I run a few websites using zenphoto and just recently tried this hack on one of them. I wanted to see if the bugs I found were particular to me or more universal.

Videos have to be uploaded via ftp, the admin web interface does not allow uploading of videos.

After uploading a video via ftp you need to visit the admin edit page and click save, otherwise you get an error on the gallery page.

Is everyone doing it this way?

A couple of the websites I run have several non-computer savvy people uploading, so ftp isn't an option. It would be great if the admin upload could be fixed.

On another note, how are people creating the flv files? I found a few different shareware apps but they all suck. I'd love to hear recommendations (Mac user).

Hey guys, Sorry to bump this old post.
I have a problem where, some files that I upload are different resolution, such as HD. Now there is no toolbar or anything. How should I go about changing the frame dynamically to fit the higher resed images?

Also on a side note, is there any way to pull the files size(like in kb or mb?) or date uploaded for a file?

Has there been any progress with getting this to work with the latest SVN? The only reason I ask is because the SVN allows for subalbums and exif information.

I went ahead and updated this to work with the latest SVN (441) and uploaded a patch to the trac ticket #54

Thanks a lot for making this patch! I had made patch a long time ago but it was never implemented...
Do you have some svn access to implement it ?

No I do not. I was actually astonished I got your code to work. I have wanted this for a long time but I use subalbums! Thanks again for making this La0c00n.

So no news? No custom width height function that can detect a video's dimensions?