Sorry I didn’t respond sooner. I didn’t get an automatic email about this so I missed it. I’ve never used WP User Frontend, but as far as I know you don’t need my plugin to allow users to submit videos since WP User Frontend allows them to upload attachments. If you want thumbnails and transcoding, I believe if you have FFMPEG on your server it should automatically create a thumbnail and encode any formats you tell it to whenever a user adds a video. Have you tried it out and it didn’t do that?
No worries Kyle, thanks much for your reply.
WPUF is easy to get the files on the server, but that’s all it does. Once WPUF adds the file to the site, it still needs screenshots generated and the file to be encoded, which is what I’m looking at your plugin to do.
Is there a way to automatically tell the site to encode every file once it’s in the media library?
I’m on a dedicated server with ffmpeg installed and your plugin works great from the backend, it’s just that users submitting their own videos on the front end is what I’m looking for.
If this is custom programming too, I’d be more than happy to pay for your services to code it out!
–> User uploads video from front end and assigns it a category (or multiple categories)
–> VE&TG re-encodes it in 480p mp4 and generates thumbnails
–> Post gets sent for pending review and when published, shows up on the site
Ben
In the FFMPEG settings tab of the plugin settings page there’s an option to automatically generate thumbnails and encode default formats every time a video is uploaded. That should be triggered the same whether a user is in the admin or frontend. Have you enabled those settings and it doesn’t work? As for setting uploaded media to “pending review” that’s beyond the scope of my plugin. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t an existing plugin that could do that though.
Thanks Kyle. WPUF does the “pending review” part, so that makes life simple. 🙂
I didnt see the option to auto encode, I had my eyes closed I guess, so I’ll give that a whirl and report back!
Thanks so much.
