Videopack thumbnail location

There are a few plugins out there that will move the location of your Media Library, and Videopack will save new thumbnails wherever the Media Library is. I don’t know all the details of your setup, but my guess is the large WordPress database is slowing you down and you might not see a lot of benefit from moving the files. My first recommendation would be to turn on “Use Experimental URL cache” in Videopack settings.

Hi Kyle. Thanks for your reply. I have changed my wp-config.php file to specify an external location for uploads, so the video files are stored and accessed (using a separate plugin) from this external location, rather than the default wp-content/uploads folder. However, the thumbnails generated on upload of a video still get stored in the wp-content/uploads folder. I was wondering how to change this.

So you have a wp-config entry with something like define( 'UPLOADS', 'external_location/uploads' ); and Videopack isn’t respecting that? And all normal uploads go to the folder you’ve set in wp-config?

The wp-config file is defined as
define(‘UPLOADS’, ‘wp-content/uploads/video_content’); where /video_content is located on a different server.
Whilst this works for files uploaded to WordPress, Videopack is not seeing this for thumbnails generated by the plugin, which are stored in wp-content/uploads.

Ok, I’ll take a look at this and do some troubleshooting. Are you using FFMPEG?

Thank you. Yes, using FFMPEG, but not transcoding the videos, only creating thumbnails and watermarking. If I do use the Videopack plugin to transcode the videos, the transcoded versions are located in the same external location as the uploaded videos.

Since uploads is relative to the local WordPress path how is /video_content on a different server? Is it a symlink or something?