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@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.
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.
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 :-)
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.
Everything is working great now, I just need to alter the CSS to get things to fit as I want.
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.
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!
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).
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?
Do you have some svn access to implement it ?
It looks like you can set the width and height in there but an autodetect script is beyond me.
Except using some system calls with ffmpeg
I had to add in the class-album.php/getAlbumThumbImage function:
`//jordi-kun - no images, no subalbums, check for videos
$dp = opendir($albumdir);
while ($thumb = readdir($dp)) {
if (is_file($albumdir.$thumb) && is_valid_video($thumb)) {
return new Image($this, $thumb);
}
}`
right after the
`// Otherwise, look in sub-albums.
$subalbums = $this->getSubAlbums();
foreach ($subalbums as $subdir) {
$subalbum = new Album($this->gallery, $subdir);
$thumb = $subalbum->getAlbumThumbImage();
if ($thumb != NULL && $thumb->exists) {
return $thumb;
}
}`
The way the player works by default, it has a control bar that covers part of the video. At 320x240 it's a very non-trivial part. If I move the mouse away, after a few seconds the bar goes away too. But that isn't entirely intuitive and I only noticed by accident. Besides, I'd like to leave it visible to give an indication of how much time remains.
I've been looking at the documentation from the apparent original producer of the FLV player (the SWF file). It's possible to control the image size, player bar color, show/hide volume control, etc... But how do I move that control bar under my movie where it belongs?!? I didn't have much luck finding info about that.
Maybe resize the video area to leave enough pixels for the control bar... But then the movie centers itself vertically, leaving a black bar on the top and an obstructed area on bottom. Ugh.
But otherwise, again, the video mod is well done.
I wouldn't call it a major problem though. It would be easy enough to separate our movies and stills into different albums with "photo" and "video" in the album names. In my case (for now anyway) they're in completely separate galleries.
this can be done using the watermark hack and forcing to watermark the thumbs of videos.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/sites/mysite/public_html/zenphoto/zen/kses.php on line 429
It is repeated about 25-30 times before then displaying the list of themes. I tried changing the theme but still get the same error repeated on every page - whatever theme is selected. However, at the end of end of the error messages, it does give me the relevant screen eventually - with the last error message showing
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/sites/mysite/public_html/zenphoto/zen/kses.php:429) in /home/sites/mysite/public_html/zenphoto/index.php on line 9
When I eventaully scroll through all this and get to the relevant links - the video file still works but how do I get rid of this problem as it makes this fantasic feature unuseable at the current time?
I have no knowlege of php so am at a bit of a loss to understand what has gone wrong...
I have downloaded and installed the zenvideo zip file from the earlier link according to the instructions.
Thanks
i did add a filmstrip to the videos for thw zenvideo hack like described in this post
http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=1599&replies=4#post-9005
see it at http://www.kiemkracht.com/en/vrij werk/homo herbarius/
an for the video parameters;
on my own site (under contruction at http://www.bertsimons.nl/wordpress/?p=28 )I used jeroen weijerings flashplayer and added this to my customfunctions.php which is called on my image.php page by printDefaultSizedImageVideo() tu use his player which has a lot of adjustable parameters. ( use it uploading an image and a flv of the same name eg movie.jpg, movie.flv)
// Video integration jeroen weijerings flashplayer
function printDefaultSizedImageVideo($alt, $class=NULL, $id=NULL) {
// [BEGIN] added by cvogt: check for non image data
$file_full = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].getFullImageURL();
$file_wo_ext = substr($file_full,0,strrpos($file_full,"."));
if( file_exists( $file_wo_ext.".flv" )){
?>
<p id="player" style="width:520px;height:390px;">>Get Flash to see this player.
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("/zenphoto/themes/izen/flvplayer/flvplayer.swf","mpl","520","390","7");
so.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");
so.addVariable("file","<? echo substr(getFullImageURL(),0,strrpos(getFullImageURL(),".")); ?>.flv");
so.addVariable("displayheight","390");
so.addVariable("autostart","true");
so.addVariable("repeat","true");
so.addVariable("overstretch","true");
so.addVariable("showicons","false");
so.write("player");
</script>
<?
}
else {
echo "<img src=\"" . htmlspecialchars(getDefaultSizedImage()) . "\" style=\"border:1px solid #ccc\" alt=\"" . htmlspecialchars($alt, ENT_QUOTES) . "\"" .
" width=\"" . getDefaultWidth() . "\" height=\"" . getDefaultHeight() . "\"" .
(($class) ? " class=\"$class\"" : "") .
(($id) ? " id=\"$id\"" : "") . " />";
}
return;
}
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?= $_zp_themeroot ?>/flvplayer/swfobject.js"></script>
in your image.php header to get it working..
the patch can be found in the zenvideo ticket here
mov files are heavy, so only intranet use is advised. For both video types, Quicktime plugin for your browser is required.