Where to edit php for the Mass Embed video importer?

dereklro · 2014-11-23 23:14:54

I want to add a "random thumb" php code into the mass embed script in order to select my thumbs randomly as they are imported. It is too time consuming to manually select a thumbnail for each video that is imported (which is needed). Right now, the video thumbs are imported with the images displaying consecutively through the video and the first thumb for the beginning of each video is always automatically selected. It leaves me with a lot of black images, and thumbs that do not look good as the main thumbnail. I just want to automate the process of choosing a thumb in the middle of the video at random.

Does anyone know of an easy way to implement this? (what code to use?)

What file(s) would I need to edit in order to do this?

symtab · 2014-11-24 07:28:16

admin/modules/grab/components/grab.php and find:

                    $this->db->query("UPDATE #__video 
                                      SET status = ".$this->status.",
                                          thumbs = ".$valid."
                                      WHERE video_id = ".$video_id."
                                      LIMIT 1");

replace with:

                    $this->db->query("UPDATE #__video 
                                      SET status = ".$this->status.",
                                          thumb = ".rand(1, $valid).",
                                          thumbs = ".$valid."
                                      WHERE video_id = ".$video_id."
                                      LIMIT 1");

dereklro · 2014-11-24 07:55:32

Works like a charm! Thank you so much!

dereklro · 2014-11-30 18:42:26

Another question about this. Is it possible (while choosing random images) to not include or not consider the first image? Is there a way to tell it to choose only the middle images (excluding first and last images) for the videos? Just trying to fine tune my importing a bit.

symtab · 2014-12-01 06:50:09

Not possible, but i can include this feature in the next version.

Eri · 2014-12-01 13:14:50

http://php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php

symtab · 2014-12-01 15:43:35

Yeah, or even a feature to define which thumb to use.

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#1 2014-11-23 23:14:54

Where to edit php for the Mass Embed video importer?

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Re: Where to edit php for the Mass Embed video importer?

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Re: Where to edit php for the Mass Embed video importer?

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