does this download videos to media library?

  • Resolved wasanajones

    (@wasanajones)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    from the description “Your videos, once imported, can also be added to any other post via the media library, or presented in a gallery using the shortcode [external-videos]. ”

    that’s not something I’d want to do, want to play not download

    thanks

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  • Plugin Author nimmolo

    (@nimmolo)

    Hi @wasanajones,

    No – the videos are not downloaded. It’s a bit tricky to describe – the videos are available to add to other posts via the media window AS IF they were in your media library, but:

    What’s going on is, a script looks through your external-videos posts to find each video’s playback info (URL, title, description and thumbnail). Then it puts together a grid of these videos for the Add Media window, similar to the grid of other kinds of attachment thumbnails. When you add a video to posts however (or anywhere you can use the media uploader), what gets added is always just the embed URL for playback, not the video file.

    Thread Starter wasanajones

    (@wasanajones)

    thanks for the fast and thorough reply (not to mention the cool video grabber)

    Plugin Author nimmolo

    (@nimmolo)

    Welcome – let us know how it’s working for you, and if there’s any other feature you’d like to have in the plugin.

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