Title: Requirement automatic encoding on upload Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Requirement automatic encoding on upload * Resolved [benhartwich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yoursql719/) * (@yoursql719) * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/requirement-automatic-encoding-on-upload/) * Hi, * I puzzle over frontend publishing and video upload is working and the file is placed at the media library like all other files, but the video files are not encoded automatically after upload. If I upload the file normally at the wordpress media uploader the automatic encoding works – so it´s plugin issue. * To tell the developer, what they should implement I need to know the requirements on encoding uploaded videos at the media library. Is there a specific post (attachment) meta or something else, which has to be set in order to start automatic encoding? Would be great if you could write me a few lines how this encoding is processed. * Automatic Thumbnail creation is working. * Regards, * Ben * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/) Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/) * (@kylegilman) * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/requirement-automatic-encoding-on-upload/#post-6603229) * There’s no metadata involved. Automatic encoding is triggered by the `add_attachment` action. * Thread Starter [benhartwich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yoursql719/) * (@yoursql719) * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/requirement-automatic-encoding-on-upload/#post-6603248) * Thank you! I´ve uploaded the video with different post metas from frontend, but it´s not automatically encoded. Is it possible to define a post meta, which triggers die encoding or any other option? * Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/) * (@kylegilman) * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/requirement-automatic-encoding-on-upload/#post-6603250) * There is no post meta to trigger encoding. The encoding should start when the` add_attachment` action is triggered. It’s almost impossible for your frontend uploader plugin to skip this step, so there’s some other reason why encoding doesn’t start. Especially if thumbnails are generated automatically but encoding doesn’t start. Both automatic events are part of the same function. Is this a freely available frontend publishing plugin? It’s very difficult for me to just guess at what could be causing this problem. * Thread Starter [benhartwich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yoursql719/) * (@yoursql719) * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/requirement-automatic-encoding-on-upload/#post-6603251) * No, it´s a premium plugin, but I could send it to you, if you would like to. I need to know, what I can tell the plugin support, but it could be that the problem is at your plugin – don´t know, how to test / figure it out. * Thread Starter [benhartwich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yoursql719/) * (@yoursql719) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/requirement-automatic-encoding-on-upload/#post-6603305) * Hi, * I´ve got updates. Problem is that the encoding path is build wrong, because it mixes the server path with the attachment media url for encoding. That´s because the frontend uploader uses a specific post meta, which upload the file as attachment, but add an url string for the post meta and it seems that your plugin recognizes these url first at media section although the media file looks like all others and thumbnail is generated automatically. It seems that your plugin grabs the file at the wrong position. * Is there a possibility to use if clauses or cases for getting a working file path, if the encoder recognizes a http? Now the path for your plugin looks like: `/ var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/http://xy.de/wordpress/ wp-content/uploads/2015/10/prism-is-a-dancer-life-of-sven-iphoneswelcome-neo- magazin-royale-mit-jan-bohmermann-zdfneo.mp4: No such file or directory` * Regards, * Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/) * (@kylegilman) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/requirement-automatic-encoding-on-upload/#post-6603307) * For encoding purposes, my plugin gets the video path using the WordPress function [`get_attached_file()`](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_attached_file/). That function reads the value of the post meta entry `_wp_attached_file`, which it expects to be something like ‘/2015/10/videofile.mp4’ and combines it with the file path to the uploads directory. `_wp_attached_file` is a relative path because it’s also used for functions like [`wp_get_attachment_url()`](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_get_attachment_url/), which adds the URL to the uploads directory to the value of `_wp_attached_file`. If for some reason the frontend uploader is saving a complete URL instead of the relative path in `_wp_attached_file`, then I would ask why the frontend uploader is doing that. 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