Public player descriptions render formatted HTML on the homepage.
Catalogue cards, embed meta tags, and social metadata use safe
plain-text excerpts.
Add/edit admin pages now use a rich description editor that preserves
pasted HTML styling, with a textarea fallback for no-JS.
External/YouTube-imported descriptions are sanitized before storage.
README now documents Markdown/HTML description support.
What changed:
Added uploaded/direct audio playback paths in
[index.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/index.php) and
[embed.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/embed.php).
Added common audio upload support: MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC, OGG, OGA,
OPUS.
Added waveform poster generation for uploaded audio via ffmpeg, stored
like normal thumbnails under media/thumbs/.
Updated add/edit forms to accept media files, not just video files.
Added audio-friendly labels like Audio, 320kbps, 256kbps, 128kbps.
Updated docs and changelog.
It now recalculates video sort_order from created_at newest-first, so
videos with corrected/original publish dates appear first in the
homepage and public catalogue. I also updated
catalogue/admin/latest-video ordering to use publish date as a
tie-breaker after stored sort order.
Also updated
[README.md](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/README.md) and
[changelog.md](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/changelog.md).
The main video page now uses the active video’s:title
description
canonical /v/<slug> URL
thumbnail as og:image / twitter:image
image dimensions when available
The standalone embed page also now emits social metadata using the video
thumbnail.
Added default Live settings in
[includes/db.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/includes/db.php)
using https://stream.place/embed/tyclifford.com.
Added Admin → Settings → Live Section controls in
[admin/settings.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/settings.php):
enable/disable, live title, and embed URL/iframe input.
Added a homepage Videos / Live toggle in
[index.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/index.php).
Videos remains the default view, so the homepage behaves normally until
Live is selected.
Imgur:
Added Imgur URL normalization, embed support, oEmbed/thumbnail hooks,
and external view count scraping support in
[includes/db.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/includes/db.php).
Supports imgur.com, albums/galleries, and direct i.imgur.com
photos/GIFs/videos by routing them through Imgur embeds.
Imgur external views now flow into external_view_count, so per-item and
overall site totals include readable Imgur provider counts.
Updated the add-video hint and README docs.
Added external_view_count so provider totals from YouTube/Vimeo/etc are
added to the site’s total without double-counting local plays.
Updated public totals and per-video public view displays to use site
views + external views.
Changed Upkeeping action to Correct external view counts with a Correct
Views button.
Expanded provider scraping beyond YouTube with generic
page/JSON-LD/oEmbed patterns for readable Vimeo, Dailymotion, and
similar pages.
Improved Add Video:Title no longer has to be manually entered first.
External URL rows now have Fetch Info.
Metadata can fill title, description, duration, source label, and
external view count.
Save also retries metadata extraction server-side.
Added authenticated metadata endpoint:
[admin/media_info.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/media_info.php).
Updated docs in
[README.md](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/README.md).
Added view_count database migration/defaults and shared helpers in
[includes/db.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/includes/db.php).
Public player and embed.php now increment views.
Homepage and catalogue can display per-video views, total views, and
public stats based on admin settings.
Added Admin → Settings toggles for public view/stat display.
Added Admin → Upkeeping action to restore external view counts from
readable provider pages, with YouTube scraping support first.
Added manual per-video view-count editing in
[admin/edit.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/edit.php)
for older local uploads or corrections.
Updated
[README.md](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/README.md)
with the new behavior.
The bug was relative media paths like media/thumbs/... resolving under
routes such as /v/<slug>?page=2 or /search/<query>?page=2. I added
public_media_url() in
[includes/db.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/includes/db.php)
and updated public thumbnails, posters, and local player sources in
[index.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/index.php),
[catalogue.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/catalogue.php),
and [embed.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/embed.php)
to use root/base-aware URLs.
What changed:
Added pretty URL helpers/default setting in
[includes/db.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/includes/db.php).
Added root rewrite rules in
[.htaccess](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/.htaccess):/v/<slug>
/all
/search/<query>
Added Admin → Settings “Public URL Style” toggle in
[admin/settings.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/settings.php),
defaulting to pretty URLs.
Updated public/player/catalogue/embed/admin preview links to use the
configured URL style.
Added redirects from legacy ?v= and ?q= URLs to pretty routes when
rewriting is enabled.
Documented deployment and fallback behavior in
[README.md](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/README.md).
What changed:
[includes/db.php (line
227)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/includes/db.php:227)
now classifies YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Twitch, Facebook, TikTok,
Instagram, X/Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, Google Drive, Wistia,
Streamable, Loom, plus direct Dropbox/GitHub media rewrites.
[index.php (line
235)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/index.php:235)
renders provider URLs as iframe embeds, while uploaded/direct files
still use Video.js.
[embed.php (line
198)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/embed.php:198) now
supports those provider embeds too.
[admin/add.php (line
260)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/add.php:260)
and [admin/edit.php (line
383)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/edit.php:383)
now describe external URLs as embed-capable and store recognized
provider URLs as text/html.
[README.md (line
63)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/README.md:63)
documents provider embed support.
Changed:
[includes/db.php (line
43)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/includes/db.php:43)
adds source_type and source_url, with an automatic migration for
existing SQLite databases.
[admin/add.php (line
260)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/add.php:260)
and [admin/edit.php (line
383)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/edit.php:383)
now let each source be an upload or an external URL.
[index.php (line
226)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/index.php:226) and
[embed.php (line
193)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/embed.php:193)
resolve playback URLs based on where the source lives.
[catalogue.php (line
79)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/catalogue.php:79) now
has public search for published videos only.
[README.md (line
63)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/README.md:63)
documents local vs remote sources and public search.
Ty Clifford