File Types?

ZakRhino

Joined: 2009-01-30
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Posted: Thu, 2009-07-23 13:05

What type of file attachments are allowed in Gallery3 (G3)?
Flash (SWF), Small Movies(MOV), Tiff, Etc.?
 
bharat
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Posted: Thu, 2009-07-23 18:09

Image: GIF, PNG, JPG
Movie: MP4, FLV

We may expand these types in the future, but we aimed for the minimum set that would satisfy 80+% of the market.
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ZakRhino

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Posted: Thu, 2009-07-23 21:14

Don't the market used flash now a days? or mov stuff?
 
bharat
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Posted: Thu, 2009-07-23 21:26

I don't understand what you're asking. FLV is flash video (so is MP4, they're compatible).
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ZakRhino

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Posted: Thu, 2009-07-23 21:43

MP4 is flash (FLV)?
 
kinchyle

Joined: 2009-03-08
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Posted: Fri, 2009-07-24 15:39

I'm actually seeing issues with mp4 showing in the gallery. I get sound but no video.
I have modified the server_add task to not look for "mp4" and just "flv".
It would be nice if you could have advanced settings to see/change the images and video chosen from the directories.

I then use ffmpeg to convert the mp4 to flv and in a smaller/web friendly version

for file in *.MP4;do ffmpeg -y -i $file -qscale 4 -s 320x240 -acodec copy -ar 22050 -f flv `basename $file .MP4`.flv;done
 
bharat
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Posted: Thu, 2009-07-30 00:30

kinchyle: I'm not sure what you mean by "see/change the images and video chosen from the directories". Can you explain please? Even better, can you explain in a feature request (see the url below).
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mbjr

Joined: 2005-11-03
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Posted: Sun, 2009-08-09 13:03

Is there any way to implement flash animation (swf) and shockwave (dcr) upload/view functionality?
I understand G3 is meant to be more strict however as of flash video present I can't see such a twist in this besides automated thumbnail generation probably.

Cheers,
 
bharat
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Posted: Fri, 2009-08-14 23:15

Because of the nature of SWF files, there is no inherently secure way to store them on your server. Ie, if you allow somebody to upload a .SWF file to your gallery they can upload a file which can do horrible things to you. If we allow this, then we'll get burned for providing an insecure product, so we're not going to allow this until SWF becomes more secure.
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floridave
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Posted: Sat, 2009-08-15 05:08
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I understand G3 is meant to be more strict however as of flash video present I can't see such a twist in this besides automated thumbnail generation probably.

Flash video (FLV) and .swf / .dcr files are vastly different.

Dave
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