Gotta say I like the gallery as addition to my IPB.
This probably has been suggested before but I wish it had a more "youtube" style of movie displaying.
maybe as a seperate option, the movie files people can uploaded seem unrestricted in dimensions and size
(you can set a filesize limit but I would want to allow them to just easily upload their movies as I want to go easy
on my users but I don't want to give them the freedom to upload with little/no restrictions.)
A system where the video file could be convertered to a proper format and where it would be viewable through flash would be perfect.
or atleast a system which could verify the dimensions of the movie they're uploading.
This shouldn't replace the current option but it should be an additional one.
Many communities would want to offer such a system to their users as youtube often has some slowdowns or movie placement restricitions.
Thanks for the great work, keep it up!
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It would be nice for much more enhanced video options, however to support them you need special software on your server - thus it becomes difficult to make a public release available using these options. Not something I've ruled out - it's also just not as easy as it may seem.
Brandon or anyone else kind of on subject, and thanks for the awesome new version btw.
If you have the youtube/video tags in your forums do these also get picked up by the gallery? Thinking of grabbing another gallery license and having movie trailers and posters via the gallery.
If you have the youtube/video tags in your forums do these also get picked up by the gallery? Thinking of grabbing another gallery license and having movie trailers and posters via the gallery.
Yes bfarber,
you make a good point, being someone who fools around with php a lot myself.
I do know that a videoconversion application would be required serverside,
I have seen a PHP script being able to handle video conversion through GD however this is not a very efficient way to handle movie files and I bet a lot of webhosters will get very pissy if such a thing was used (high CPU load) ;P
another solution would be that the movie already needs to be a required format,
so people will have to convert the movies themselves to the proper format (using a third party program).
The Board Administrator can then define the max dimensions/filesize/allowed types/etc.
from there basically you already created the base for such a youtube system.
The server side video-type check shouldn't be too much work (I think atleast, I believe a simple header-parser should do the trick?)
if it appears a big success you can always choose to expand it with a server-side converter.
but as you said, a server side converter would be tricky,
this would very much limit its usage to people who have their own server or an expensive hosting plan.
Not to mention the compatibility issues that might turn up on the different operating systems.
from what I see people do seem interested in this feature,
so I guess if they agree to this idea they should leave a message here to confirm this interest.
you make a good point, being someone who fools around with php a lot myself.
I do know that a videoconversion application would be required serverside,
I have seen a PHP script being able to handle video conversion through GD however this is not a very efficient way to handle movie files and I bet a lot of webhosters will get very pissy if such a thing was used (high CPU load) ;P
another solution would be that the movie already needs to be a required format,
so people will have to convert the movies themselves to the proper format (using a third party program).
The Board Administrator can then define the max dimensions/filesize/allowed types/etc.
from there basically you already created the base for such a youtube system.
The server side video-type check shouldn't be too much work (I think atleast, I believe a simple header-parser should do the trick?)
if it appears a big success you can always choose to expand it with a server-side converter.
but as you said, a server side converter would be tricky,
this would very much limit its usage to people who have their own server or an expensive hosting plan.
Not to mention the compatibility issues that might turn up on the different operating systems.
from what I see people do seem interested in this feature,
so I guess if they agree to this idea they should leave a message here to confirm this interest.
QUOTE(maever @ Nov 27 2007, 11:45 AM) 
Yes bfarber,
you make a good point, being someone who fools around with php a lot myself.
I do know that a videoconversion application would be required serverside,
I have seen a PHP script being able to handle video conversion through GD however this is not a very efficient way to handle movie files and I bet a lot of webhosters will get very pissy if such a thing was used ;P
another solution would be that the movie already needs to be a required format,
so people will have to convert the movies themselves to the proper format (using a third party program).
The Board Administrator can then define the max dimensions/filesize/allowed types/etc.
from there basically you already created the base for such a youtube system.
this shouldn't be a lot of work and if it appears a big success you can always choose to expand it with a server-side converter.
but as you said, a server side converter would be tricky,
this would very much limit its usage to people who have their own server or an expensive hosting plan.
Not to mention the compatibility issues that might turn up on the different operating systems.
from what I see people do seem interested in this features,
so I guess if they agree to this idea they should leave a message here to confirm this interest.
you make a good point, being someone who fools around with php a lot myself.
I do know that a videoconversion application would be required serverside,
I have seen a PHP script being able to handle video conversion through GD however this is not a very efficient way to handle movie files and I bet a lot of webhosters will get very pissy if such a thing was used ;P
another solution would be that the movie already needs to be a required format,
so people will have to convert the movies themselves to the proper format (using a third party program).
The Board Administrator can then define the max dimensions/filesize/allowed types/etc.
from there basically you already created the base for such a youtube system.
this shouldn't be a lot of work and if it appears a big success you can always choose to expand it with a server-side converter.
but as you said, a server side converter would be tricky,
this would very much limit its usage to people who have their own server or an expensive hosting plan.
Not to mention the compatibility issues that might turn up on the different operating systems.
from what I see people do seem interested in this features,
so I guess if they agree to this idea they should leave a message here to confirm this interest.
You can't convert movies using GD as far as I'm aware.
I'm currently working on a mod to do what your asking for. An IPB mod though, not a gallery mod. I've sorted an AJAX upload progress, just (*just* lol..) need to install ffmpeg and all the crap that goes with it on my server. I've worked out the commands to process the files. Theres a bit of a preview on IPSBeyond in the modification development forum, although things have moved on since then.
Sounds like a decent project,
I'm able to install mods as the server i host on is my own.
The method I described with GD was pretty limited and very inefficient,
I believe what it does is it allows you to upload uncompressed AVI format,
It then parses it into individual frames and passes those on through GD,
then saves it as a new file. but this isn't very efficient and most standard PHP engines probably will time-out not to mention allowing movies the size of uncompressed avi's is already asking for trouble
I'll be sure to check your project out, I do wish to offer a youtube-like functionality on my website
maybe you can link me just to be sure
I'm able to install mods as the server i host on is my own.
The method I described with GD was pretty limited and very inefficient,
I believe what it does is it allows you to upload uncompressed AVI format,
It then parses it into individual frames and passes those on through GD,
then saves it as a new file. but this isn't very efficient and most standard PHP engines probably will time-out not to mention allowing movies the size of uncompressed avi's is already asking for trouble
I'll be sure to check your project out, I do wish to offer a youtube-like functionality on my website
maybe you can link me just to be sure
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