From d6359ceffa9c0b7df82a56184d5ce5319496e044 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ty Clifford Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:23:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] - changelog --- changelog.md | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 changelog.md diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3000680 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +# Changelog + +All notable changes to this media player project. + +## 2026-06-25 + +### Added + +- Redesigned media sources so videos can use local uploaded files or remote URLs stored in the database. +- Added provider embed playback in the main player for supported external services, including YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Twitch, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, X/Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, Google Drive, Wistia, Streamable, and Loom. +- Added an admin upload flow that supports either direct uploads or external provider/page URLs. +- Added metadata fetching for external URLs to populate title, description, duration, thumbnails, publish dates, and readable provider view counts where available. +- Added automatic thumbnail grabbing for external URLs, plus first-frame thumbnail generation for local videos when `ffmpeg` is available. +- Added a YouTube channel importer that scrapes channel videos, previews imports, skips duplicates, and stores imported videos as embedded YouTube sources. +- Added YouTube timestamp correction so imported and existing YouTube videos can use their original publish dates. +- Added an **Upkeeping** section to the admin dashboard for batch maintenance actions. +- Added per-video local view counts, external provider view counts, total public view counts, and configurable public statistics display. +- Added upkeep actions to correct external view counts in batches. +- Added public search for published videos. +- Added configurable URL rewriting, defaulting to `/v/`, `/all`, and `/search/`. +- Added a configurable homepage live section with a Videos/Live toggle and default Stream.Place embed support. +- Added social sharing metadata so video pages expose title, description, and thumbnail image data for link previews. + +### Changed + +- External provider totals are stored separately from local site plays, then combined for public totals. +- Public display settings now control per-video counts, total counts, and page statistics. +- Admin video creation and editing now attempt to fill blank metadata from external media information. +- The main player now chooses between local media playback, direct remote media playback, and provider embeds based on stored source data. +- README documentation now reflects the current remote URL, provider embed, live section, view count, and pretty URL behavior. + +### Fixed + +- Improved YouTube channel importing when initial scraping returned no videos. +- Fixed thumbnail URLs so pagination and non-homepage catalogue pages load poster images correctly. +- Fixed uploaded and imported YouTube timestamps by reading original provider dates where available. + +### Removed + +- Removed Imgur-specific embed, thumbnail, metadata, and view-count support. +- Removed the Imgur wrapper endpoint that previously attempted to proxy official Imgur embed snippets.