Issues with CVG Ver 1.8

As far as I can tell, the database records look fine. Since I didn’t have much invested in this (yet ;), I completely removed the plugin and drop the tables from the database. Then I installed a fresh copy of the plugin. I uploaded a single video to a gallery and the Scan Gallery Folder functioned properly. I uploaded a second video, hit the button and then nothing happened. I think this was the issue I was running into the first time, since I was trying to add additional videos to an existing gallery.

Also, I happened to notice under the overview the following:

Operating System : Linux (32 Bit)
Server : LiteSpeed
MySQL Version : 5.0.96-community-log
PHP Version : 5.2.17
PHP Max Upload Size : 100MB
FFMPEG : Not Installed
[Note: Preview images for uploaded videos will not be created automatically using FFMPEG. Manually upload preview images for videos.]
PHP extension SimpleXML : Enabled
PHP setting allow_url_fopen : Enabled

Notice the warning about FFMPEG, yet:

server [~]# which ffmpeg
/usr/bin/ffmpeg

Let me know how else I can help. Thanks!

Just to be sure this wasn’t an issue with the particular video I was trying to add, I went through the complete reinstall again and then added second video first this time. The Scan Video Gallery recognized it just fine. I then added another video (that loaded just fine in my previous test) and the Scan Video Gallery button again did nothing.

@mdieterich

Can you confirm if this is the issue you faced? Assuming there is no issue in db schema.

1. Created a gallery through admin panel.
2. FTPed first video into gallery folder. Did scan gallery from Admin panel for that gallery. Video added successfully.
3. FTPed second video into gallery folder. Did scan gallery from admin panel for that gallery. Video not added successfully.

Correct, that is precisely what I experienced. First video added successfully, regardless of which of the two videos I tried first. The second one would not.

Hello!

My player is showing fine in almost all browsers, except Firefox mac showing nothing at all. Any hints?

I am seeing the same issues. Another developer set this up originally. Once it was updated I got a message that it failed to find galleries. I went in checked the galleries and OKed it. Now all of the thumbnail links are missing. How do I reconnect this? When I go to attach media it does nothing – the choose media pulldown has no options.

I have the galleries now “found” and showing up but the thumbnails (manually generated as we’re on a shared server so ffmpeg is not allowed) which were manual are no longer found.

Wish I hadn’t updated. Reading through here it seems unstable.

How do I fix this without recreating all of the galleries?

I deleted my test gallery through the management interface, created a new gallery, and then uploaded two videos into the new gallery. Clicking on the Scan button successfully loaded both of them into the gallery.

On the ffmpeg front, I located the section of the interface where I could specify a path. When I found it, I was amazed to discover it appears to have had a default Macintosh path or somehow picked up the path to the binary on my client??? Regardless, ffmpeg is now detected and working fine, once I fixed the path.

@ mdieterich

The FFMPEG path is set to default in settings page as an example. Each server will have a different path which need to be provided. W.r.t scan functionality, I was able to scan both the videos correctly. I hope your issues are resolved now.

@ augura

Please provide Url to check.

Regards,
Praveen Rajan

@ tmb723

There is no issue related with existing thumbnails with 1.8ver. The media upload tab is for adding medias you added into WP media section. If you have updated 1.7 to 1.8 and having any issues seeing the gallery, run the 2 database queries mentioned in this thread.

Installed version 1.8 and when I’m logged in as admin and select one of my setting such as manage, overview, etc it doesn’t display any setting except for the add gallery/ videos settings?? Any suggestions??

The FFMPEG issue is resolved (it was a non-issue), but I still can’t get the scan to work properly. The initial scan works fine, regardless of how many videos are in the gallery, but after the initial scan, it can no longer find any new videos. I’d love to figure out what’s going on, please let me know how I can help debug. Thanks!

Praveen,

I’ve found a workaround for the scan issue and perhaps it will give you a clue. If I’ve previously loaded videos into my gallery and then hit the scan button, nothing happens. However, if I then tell my browser to reload the page, it pops up a window asking me whether I want to resend the data (warning me that it will repeat the action, etc.) I do this and the scan happens the second time around!

Actually, this trick works in two of the three browsers I tried (Firefox & Chrome), but didn’t appear to work in Safari.

Hi Praveen,

Since I did the update to 1.8 I have this error and none of my video gallery are showing.

Warning: opendir(/home/xxxxxxxxxx/public_html/wp-content/uploads/video-gallery/Compétitions) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/xxxxxxxxxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cool-video-gallery/lib/core.php on line 1357
(xxxxxxxxxxxx is not the real folder name… obviously!)

Update: I have checked the DB and the wp_cvg_videos was missing the ‘exclude’ and the ‘video_title’ columns so I created them with the info you supplied on previous post. Now my video are showing and are working fine but I’m still getting the same error message. (https://www.karatesthubert.com/videos/).

I did reinstall the plugin but still get the same problem, at least now my videos are showing ??

Here is the content of each table, maybe there is still something missing??
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wp_cvg_gallery

Column Type Null Default Comments
gid bigint(20) No
name varchar(255) No
path longtext Yes NULL
title longtext Yes NULL
galdesc longtext Yes NULL
author bigint(20) No 0

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wp_cvg_videos

Column Type Null Default Comments
pid bigint(20) No
galleryid bigint(20) No 0
filename varchar(255) No
thumb_filename varchar(255) No
description longtext Yes NULL
sortorder bigint(20) No 0
alttext longtext Yes NULL
videodate datetime No 0000-00-00 00:00:00
meta_data longtext Yes NULL
video_type varchar(20) No upload
exclude tinyint(5) No 0
video_title mediumtext Yes NULL
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Thanks for your help and excellent support ??

Have an amazing day ??

Philippe

I have added a list videos, but after completing the first video, the next video does not play. Help please