Spreebie Transcoder – Resize, Compress and Store Video vs WP Photo Album Plus

The role of video as the premier mode of communication and information transmission in the year 2019 has now become uncontested. Video informs all aspects of our lives, from how we communicate with our loved ones to how radio stations stream content to their ‘listeners’. The monumental task for content providers today is to provide video in a manner in which it is accessible to everyone – not providing video is totally out of the question. A large part of this is of course driven by the all internet-based media distribution platforms that have sprouted up since 2005. Video has become so instrumental and so effective that it has even triggered the biggest learning cycle in human history. So, the important test for content providers is fundamentally related to access – global access. Pertaining to internet infrastructure, different places in the world are at different stages of development – all those people have to have access to the same content. Providing video at resolutions that deal with these scenarios can be what separates a content providers from their competition. The MP4 video format and FFmpeg have matured tremendously over the past 15 years. MP4 has become the de facto video format on the web and FFmpeg is the goto transcoding tool for some of the biggest video distribution platforms in the world. Just because of the lay of the land in 2019, it is important to use video on your site to interact with your visitors in ways that they can relate to and understand. Communicating in a standard way using the MP4 video format and making sure those videos can be provided in sizes and rates that respond to individual users’ needs and circumstances is imperative. WordPress is now running on 30% of all websites – in a way, it has become a kind of web operating system. This means that it has become unavoidable and thinking about creating new products and dedicated implementations of existing products for WordPress is imperative. The combination of better video transcoding technology, standard (popular) video containers, cloud storage services and a web dominated by a very powerful WordPress was fertile soil to create Spreebie Transcoder. Features Resizing – Spreebie Transcoder resizes video to lesser resolutions. For example, a 360p video will get 240p and 144p copies. Compression – Spreebie Transcoder has adjustable settings to determine the quality of video and the speed at which transcoding happens. This results in compression to varying degrees depending on what settings have been chosen. Google Cloud Storage – If you choose to, transcoded video can be stored on Google Cloud Storage as a backup. Folders – Spreebie Transcoder supports WP Real Media Library that brings folder functionality to WordPress media. Support and Manual – Spreebie Transcoder provides a support tab through which users can request support from Spreebie representatives. A comprehensive manual is also provided to help users with most of the questions they may have. This plugin requires FFmpeg to work. THIRD PARTY PRODUCT AND SERVICE NOTE: When storing already transcoded video on the cloud with this plugin, a third party service called Google Cloud Storage (https://cloud.google.com/storage/) is used for storage. A number of open-source PHP libraries from various sources are packaged within Spreebie Transcoder in the folder “vendor” in order to facilitate Google Cloud Storage functionality. Google Cloud Storage in this plugin ONLY works for cloud storage – the rest of the plugin can function without it. Another third party product which is not included with this plugin but is its centre is FFmpeg is (https://www.ffmpeg.org/) – this is used to perform all the video analysis and transcoding. Without FFmpeg, this plugin cannot function. The last third party product that can be used in tandem with this plugin but is not included with it is WP Real Media Library (https://matthias-web.com/wordpress/real-media-library/). This can be used to organise your transcoded media into folders. Spreebie Transcoder does not need WP Real Media Library to function.

This plugin is more than just a photo album plugin, it is a complete, highly customizable multimedia content management and display system. Features: Any number of albums that contain any type of multimedia file as well as sub albums. Full control over the display sizes, responsive as well as static. Full control over links from any type of image. Full control over metadata: exif, iptc can be used by keywords in item descriptions. Up to 10 custom defined meta data fields, for albums and for media items. Front-end uploads. Bulk imports. Built-in lightbox overlay system. Built-in Google Maps to display maps based on the photo gpx exif data. Built-in search functions on a.o. keywords and tags. A customizable rating system. Commenting system. Moderate user uploads and comments. Configurable email notification system. 20 widgets a.o. upload, slideshow, photo of the day, top rated and commented items and many more. Supports Cloudinary cloud storage service. Supports Fotomoto print service. Required maintenace is fully executed by background processes (cron jobs). Extended error/event logging system. Extended documentation site: https://wppa.nl/ Plugin Admin Features: You can find the plugin admin section under Menu Photo Albums on the admin screen. Albums: Create and manage Albums. Upload: To upload photos to an album you created. Import: To bulk import items to an album that are previously been ftp’d. Moderate: Change status of pending Export: To export albums Settings: To control the various settings to customize your needs. photo of the day widget settings Help & Info: Credits and link to the documentation site Translations: Dutch translation by OpaJaap himself (Opa Jaap’s Weblog) Slovak translation by Branco Radenovich (WebHostingGeeks.com) Polish translation by Maciej Matysiak Ukranian translation by Michael Yunat (http://getvoip.com) Italian translation by Giacomo Mazzullo (http://gidibao.net & http://charmingpress.com) German translation by Stefan Eggers Portuguese translation by Eric Sornoso (https://Mealfan.com) Privacy Policy When you leave a comment on a photo or other media item on this site, we send your name, email address, IP address and comment text to the server. When you enter a rating on a photo or other media item on this site, we send your (login)name or IP address and your rating to the server. When you upload a photo or other media item on this site, we send your name to the server. If the photo contains EXIF or IPTC data, this data may – dependant of the configuration – be saved on the server. If the photo contains GPX location data, this data will be saved on the server. If visit the site, the pages you visit, the photos you watch and your IP address will be saved on the server for statistical purposes in your session information. This information will be anonimized after one hour and removed after 24 hours. About and Credits WP Photo Album Plus is extended with many new features and is maintained by J.N. Breetvelt, ( http://www.opajaap.nl/ ) a.k.a. OpaJaap Thanx to R.J. Kaplan for WP Photo Album 1.5.1, the basis of this plugin. Licence WP Photo Album is released under the GNU GPL licence. ( http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html )