Ty Clifford
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The core conversion helper is in [includes/db.php (line 1161)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/includes/db.php:1161). The upload flows insert the converted MP4 first for playback and retain the original M4A as a separate source in [admin/add.php (line 129)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/add.php:129) and [admin/edit.php (line 172)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/edit.php:172). I also updated the admin upload hints, [README.md (line 77)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/README.md:77), and [changelog.md (line 14)](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/changelog.md:14).
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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
ffmpegis available. - Added M4A upload support that keeps the original M4A source and adds a generated black-frame H.264 MP4 source when
ffmpegis 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 an upkeep action to correct catalogue order from video publish dates so newer dated videos appear first.
- 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
?land=livehomepage support so the live embed can be displayed first from a shareable landing URL. - 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.
- Catalogue ordering now uses publish date as a tie-breaker after stored sort order.
- 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.