Hi All,

Firstly, I am using and loving xcGal, and have 137 pictures in my gallery already after just a few weeks of using it. And I have to say the EXIF support is a touch of genius, and has automatically added a lot of tech info to my pictures that otherwise would've taken quite a bit of time to do manually.

Anyway, as both a photo and video enthusiast, I was wondering if there was anyway of adding support for video files in xcGal? I tried asking this question several weeks ago at the xcGallery homepage, but got no response. I would most likely be looking at Quicktime or Mpeg4 encoded AVI files to keep the size down. So I was wondering about the following;

(1) Can xcGal support video files in MPEG4 or Quicktime?

(2a) If so, is it possible to get GD to create thumbnails from the video stream?

(2b) If not, is it possible to have this feature added, complete with thumnail creation? Or is it too much work?

I'd really appreciate any advise on this. Thanks.

xcgallery is the "coppermine" program integrated into xoops, if you go to the coppermine forums and do a search you will see they have no intention of including any video streaming.

Edit: looks like someone has done a hack Here. I don't know if it would work in XOOPS though


http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/

The 4images module, integrated by koudinshi however is also a video streamer.

http://www.bbpixel.com/modules/news/

Here

Thanks JackJ,

Looking through the coppermine forum, there are countless posts requesting video support, and from a uick search there seems to be a hack to allow you to do so. I might have to check it out.

Looks like they have already included Video support in Coopermine, atleast in beta stage anyway.

http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=862&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30