mediaplayer/changelog.md

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 ?land=live homepage 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.
• 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.