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.
What changed:
Added shared YouTube publish-date scraping helpers in
[includes/db.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/includes/db.php).
New YouTube imports now set videos.created_at to the original YouTube
publish date when available.
Manual Add/Edit saves now also try to correct timestamps for
YouTube-backed videos.
Added Admin Dashboard → Upkeeping → Correct YouTube timestamps in
[admin/index.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/index.php),
with batch size control for backfilling existing records.
Renamed the admin table column from Added to Date, since it may now
reflect original publish date.
Documented the behavior in
[README.md](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/README.md).
What changed:
Added shared thumbnail helpers in
[includes/db.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/includes/db.php):YouTube
direct thumbnails
Dailymotion direct thumbnails
oEmbed thumbnails for Vimeo, Wistia, TikTok, SoundCloud, Spotify, etc.
optional first-frame thumbnail generation for local uploads when ffmpeg
is installed
Added an “Auto-grab thumbnail” checkbox to
[admin/add.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/add.php)
and
[admin/edit.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/edit.php).
Reused the new shared downloader in
[admin/youtube_import.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/youtube_import.php).
Documented the behavior in
[README.md](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/README.md).
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).
It now handles more YouTube layouts:
Classic videoRenderer, gridVideoRenderer, and compactVideoRenderer
Shorts-style reelItemRenderer
Newer lockupViewModel channel grid objects
Raw HTML fallback by extracting watch?v=, /shorts/, /embed/, and
"videoId" matches
A second scrape attempt using YouTube’s older grid query:
view=0&sort=dd&flow=grid
So instead of stopping at “no videos found” when YouTube changes the
JSON shape, it now tries multiple extraction strategies and can still
import proper YouTube embed URLs with fallback thumbnails.
Added [admin/youtube_import.php (line
1)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/youtube_import.php:1),
which:
Accepts a channel URL, @handle, or UC... channel ID.
Scrapes the channel /videos page.
Extracts videos from ytInitialData.
Shows a preview with checkboxes.
Imports selected videos into videos and video_sources.
Stores each video as a canonical YouTube watch URL with mime_type =
text/html, so the existing YouTube embed playback path handles it
correctly.
Downloads scraped thumbnails into media/thumbs/ when possible.
Skips duplicates by matching existing remote YouTube URLs.
Also wired it into the admin navigation in [admin/index.php (line
172)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/index.php:172),
[admin/add.php (line
199)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/add.php:199),
[admin/edit.php (line
267)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/edit.php:267),
and [admin/settings.php (line
109)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/settings.php:109).
Updated [README.md (line
81)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/README.md:81) with
usage notes.
Ty Clifford