# 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/<slug>`, `/all`, and `/search/<query>`.
- 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.