I also use Macvide tool...

I would really love to see AVIs supported by zenphoto. I know it was in gallery, but I find your software superior apart from that. Wouldn't it be possible just to embed the avi and leave the web browser to handle it?

i.e. <embed src="video.avi" />

I don't want to play the file. I just want to provide a link to the avi/mpg/mov file. I don't want to invoke the player of the file except through a Download dialog box provided by the browser. I don't even want a thumbnail of the file. How do I make zenphoto show a link to the avi file in the directory so I can just download the file?

Place a link to the file within the album or image description field for example in the admin.

Just a quick reply on the video part of ZenPhoto.

Personally I feel that video is only really possible/usable within ZenPhoto when one would be able to use a service like YouTube to store the videos. Leaving them on your own server would simply mean too much data to be transferred each time, and in case of lots of videos expensive in the end because of the money you would have to pay the provider for extra webspace and extra traffic.

Why isn't it possible, next to uploading your own thumb for the video, to add a field in the admin where one can add a custom link to the video (instead of the automatic image-link). In that field one could copy and paste the YouTube code that is also used in weblog posts to display the videos.

In my view (but I'm not a coder ), in the image.php there should be a second block of code, handling the insertion of the YouTube link given in the admin pages, instead of inserting the jpeg image.

All in all this would mean adding videos (actually only the link) manually, but what would be wrong with that?

Just my thoughts on this... And now I can hear the programmers thinking 'You stupid ***, don't you know that's impossible?' :=)

Actually you can already do that. Let's say you want to have a special album with say 10 youtube videos. Just upload some random image (maybe just a numbered general one), then create a album theme (you know that feature?) that does not display images and assign it to that album. Now add the youtube links manually to the image description field in the admin.

If you want a mixed album, you could use the custom field for example and add there "youtube", then add a if/else check on image.php to skip image display for youtube videos.

Interesting, interesting...
No, I didn't know that feature yet, so I will look into that soon! It sounds like this could do exactly what I need/want. Thanks for the tip!

Wow - great. Never used this feature too.

Actually I am not familiar with that feature, can someone enlighten me? How do I create an album theme?

A album theme is not a special theme, any theme can be used for that (of course you can set up special ones), it is just a feature that lets you assign another theme to an album. You can set the album theme on each album's edit page.

Can you explain in more detail how to accomplish this - what I want to do is simply embed a youtube video into a page either via the album facility or even zenpage.

Cheers

YouTube provides code to paste for including videos. Just take that an paste it into a Zenpage page or news article (don't forget to choose the html mode!) and that's it.

It is not possible to use this on the albums.