Hi, i am an old user of Apache::Gallery, they had an realy good feature that they atleast show'ed a icon if there was an mpg/avi file in the directory, would this be possible to next release, it should realy not be that hard
Or, like take the first frame of the movie with an application (there is some in *nix) when browsing album's directory (when it create and cache thumbnail's).

I use the Video Support that La0c00n made. The movie clip is in FLV format. All i did is convert the mpg, avi, or 3gp to FLV so that i can play it.

If there's enough animo/request for a video add-on I can write one for avi, mpg etc...

Let me know (developers also!) so that we don't write the code two times, because if it's almost developed I'm nog going to put time into it.

@Lerra: I've already adjusted the code La0c00n made for [b].flv files for ZenPhoto 1.0.6[/b] (download link here: http://upload2.net/page/download/2D1NSURUjXRJLCO/zenVideoSrc_for_Zen1.0.6.zip.html)

If enough requests I'll make a page for it

update on the link above: http://www.mediafire.com/?fy3ymwjnwhm

so can you use this plugin to play AVI files?

I just checked out the source and that does not seem to be the case. This only plays FLV files. The version included in the current community build SVN allows for .mov, .3gp and .flv

Thanks for the info!
I like ZenPhoto a lot, because I am lazy, I just run an FTP sync and the website will be done. Converting my camera's AVIs to FLV isn't hard but don't know if I want to mess with it. But if ZenVideo could support AVI that would be extrememly cool!

Does anyone know of a AVI player that could be intergrated? I have been looking but not much out there. Thanks for any info...
Randy

Hmmm... Guess my AVI support may be an impossobility. Does anyone know of a AVI player at all for online viewing? Just curious, thanks...
Randy

Generally Quicktime plays many sorts of AVIs...but that is not really what you are looking for?

If you are looking for your viewers to be able to play AVI's in their browser I have never seen anything that forces it to load in there. You can manually set firefox and internet explorer to load it up in your own browser though. The best thing to do is conver them to flv.

Which application do you recommend for converting videofiles to FLV on a Mac?

http://www.jakeludington.com/mac/20060507_flash_movie_conversion_for_mac_os_x.html

hey thanks for the reply ait311!

i would love just for it to show up as an icon in the album, then the user could download it or save it.. or like you said they could set up their browser to display it in their browser. Is there any way to do that? Thanks!

randee

I have like 100s of small clips captured on my digicam. I don't want to convert them all to flash nor do i want to convert them as I make them... perhaps i am just lazy, but that is why i like zen, just ftp sync my folder to online and everything is done for me! I guess i could write a script to convert my AVIs to flash but don't want to waste the hard drive space, thanks again everyone!

I am trying to figure this out for myself, see if i can do something. I was thinking about acknowledging that the AVI exists and let them download it. So I am trying to learn PHP. I set it up editing the code and now they play, but they download completely first, and then play, and there is no controls to play them again or anything, guess i got a lot of work here, or maybe it isn't possible. keep me posted if someone knows how to do this or if it can't be done..

thanks,

I also looked at on the fly conversion from AVI to flv and then use the flv viewer that would work for a ton of file formats.

Perhaps I am the only one interested in this...
Does anyone know if there is a batch FLV converter that will convert folders of AVIs and put the FLV in the same folder as the AVI?
Thanks,
Randy

Allok Video to FLV converter can handle what you are asking for.

I tried that ALLOK converter.. It will batch convert but it will only convert them to a single output directory... Would be nice to convert them to the same folders as the exist.. I got 100 folders with 1000 avi files..

if you are talking about offline batch conversion you can use ffmpeg and a shell script.

Hi all...For converting avi to flv on mac I use Macvide VideoFlash Converter.