Press Essentials

FFmpeg-php support…. at last!

Patriek Jeuriens — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:05:19 +0000

Finally got FFMpeg-php working on my windows development server. Now i can finally start working on some real movie magic. So far i made some example code to read the Meta from the video and create thumbnails. Not sure how much I will implement it but it feels great just to have it working. Been trying for weeks and it really started to get to me. In the end it was just finding the right match of ffmpeg-php and php. I’ve been using wampserver so it’s kinda hard to get the right php version.

It was more of a can I get it working thing then something I needed. Reading and writing video data is very resource consuming and it’s sheer lunacy to do this on a shared hosting server. Your probably kicked off the server before you finished trans-coding your first video.

Abridged version for the tl;dr crowd: Yay It works! and now what?

Cooliris Crossdomain issue… solved!

Patriek Jeuriens — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:48:52 +0000

Been trying for ages but I finally solved the issue for the crossdomain.xml issue popping up and blocking my Youtube videos. The problem is NOT the crossdomain.xml file. The example feed that is given on the website is not VALID. If you add <description> and <link> to the channel element it starts to work.</p> <p>So it should be like this</p> <pre> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><rss version='2.0' xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'></td> </tr> <tr> <td><channel></td> </tr> <tr> <td><title>Website Website Title http://www.website.com Image or Video Image or video Link

Wonder if I can sue for lost time… Oh well.

to Highslide or not to Highslide.

Patriek Jeuriens — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:46:32 +0000

Of all the sliding frameworks I consider Highslide to be one of the best there is. The other commercial sliders are great too but they alll have one drawback. It’s only free for non-commercial use, so if U run ads on your site you cannot use them without paying the license fee. The open source variants are great but lacking in some very essential features that I need for the interface.

I’ve been trying to find something to remove highslide from the back end so that anyone can use it without purchasing a license but I cant find any alternatives that i like. Maybe i can figure something out.

Media Essentials, more changes….

Patriek Jeuriens — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:01:44 +0000

I’ve been working on a major revision in the underlying data model. Previously there were two tables for images and videos. This resulted in some complex constructs to incorporate both types of files in a single list. I’ve combined them into a single table to make selecting items of mixed types a lot easier. It allowed me to combine the image and video panels into one library panel which results in a less confusing interface.

Tons of fixes have been implemented as well as full gallery template with pagination and breadcrumb. Because of the single table its easy to mix and match different types and make it virtually indistinguishable from each other. Albums are displayed with full description while singles are displayed inline with only the name.

New Documentation

Patriek Jeuriens — Sun, 30 May 2010 10:27:14 +0000

I’ve updated the documentation explaining a lot of the new functions as well as more detailed info on the licensing schematics and the changes to the templating and styling functions.