Media Pump - [Windows/Linux/Mac]
Revision 1.00.10 (2016-05-15)
About: Media Pump - A tool for preparing media files (images, videos) and uploading to a Piwigo server.
Features:
* Re-size images to a smaller size and upload the re-sized images to a selected
album on a Piwigo server.
* Convert video to MP4 and upload the MP4 videos to a selected album on a Piwigo server.
* Create / Edit albums.
* Easily add titles (captions) and tags to images and/or videos.
* Indicate an image or video to become the album highlight after it has been uploaded.
* After loading a mixed number of images and/or videos into Media Pump, mark those to be uploaded into the selected album. Remaining unmarked images and/or videos can be uploaded to different album.
* All images supported by Image Magick "convert" can be re-sized.
* All video formats that can be converted to MP4 using ffmpeg can be converted.
* Images not having EXIF metadata containing orientation information can be manually rotated.
* Copy/Paste. In a file browser, navigate to folder containing images and/or videos, copy to system clipboard and paste into Media Pump.
* Image and video conversion commands in which Media Pump invokes are defined in a external XML file that can be tweaked to achieve desired results i.e. Image conversion size, video conversion size, watermarking, conversion quality.
* Download items from an album to a directory on the file system; supports recursion of all sub-albums.
Help Documentation:
* See README.html or README.md in media-pump.zip for more information regarding features.
Windows Installation:
1. Ensure Java Runtime Environment 1.7 or a later version has been installed. The "java" executeable must reside in the system path. To verify, execute the following in a CMD shell which will display the version of Java installed. If an error occurs, then java is not in the system path.
java -version
2. Ensure Image Magick software suite is installed.
3. Extract media-pump.zip to an empty directory i.e. "C:\media-pump"
4. Execute the script "create-shortcut.bat" to create a Desktop Shortcut.
5. Execute the Desktop Shortcut "Media Pump". Or execute the following command in a CMD shell:
C:\media-pump\media-pump.bat
Linux Installation:
1. Ensure Java Runtime Environment 1.7 or later version has been installed.
2. Ensure Image Magick software suite is installed.
3. Extract media-pump.zip to an empty directory i.e. "/opt/media-pump"
4. Execute the following commands in terminal:
chmod 755 /opt/media-pump/create-shortcut.sh
chmod 755 /opt/media-pump/media-pump.sh
/opt/media-pump/create-shortcut.sh
5. Execute the Desktop Shortcut "Media Pump". Or execute the following command in a terminal:
/opt/media-pump/media-pump.sh
Mac OS X Installation:
Instructions will be provided soon once I get a Mac OS VM setup to test.
Requirements:
- Java 1.7 and later
- Image Magick
Video: The following two requirements are needed to support converting/uploading video.
- FFMpeg installed on client.
- piwigo-videojs plugin installed on Piwigo server.
Changes: * Added the ability to easily add tags to images and videos prior to uploading to server.
* Specify maximum width and height of image size under preferences or indicate to upload full size image rather that converting image to smaller size.
* French language support.
* Provide better information when an image or video fails to convert or upload; a "View Details" button will be displayed in the table to display conversion logs and errors.
* Provided more documentation information in a README.md / README.html file.
* Other minor bug fixes.
Revision 2.8.a (2016-03-25)
About: CDNPlus is an plugin for Piwigo that allows an easy integration with a Content Delivery Network (CDN).
Incorporating a CDN with your website gives you several benefits, including the following:
* Faster Page Loads - Since most of your files will be served from a much closer location to your end-users, the speed in which your page loads will be greatly increased.
* Reduced Server Load - Since most of your files are no longer served by your own host, your server will be freed up to perform the basic tasks required of it.
* Handle More Visitors - Because of the improvements just mentioned and other factors, your website will be able to handle the strain of a much larger user base that it could otherwise.
* Higher SEO Rankings - Caused by the increase in performance to your site, something Google recently claimed effects SEO rankings.
Changes: Changes from v2.7.c to v2.8.a
- Update description
- Update language, thanks to the contributors
Release Note: https://github.com/xbgmsharp/piwigo-cdnplus/releases/tag/v2.8.a
Issue: https://github.com/xbgmsharp/piwigo-cdnplus/issues
Translation: http://piwigo.org/translate/project.php?project=cdnplus
Revision 2.8.0 (2016-03-16)
About: Link user registration from Piwigo to FluxBB forum 1.2.x and 1.5.x since plugin version 2.2.4 (user registration, password changes, user deletion) and use only one (Piwigo's) #_user database table. This is an upgrade from the original Nicco's NBC_LinkUser2PunBB plugin and is available for Piwigo 2.x
*** Important note : Some modification have to be set in FluxBB core files - See "Instructions" section in plugin's admin panel ***
Knonw issues since version 2.5.9:
- Not compatible with user_mass_register plugin
Changes: New languages:
* Chinese (中文 (简体) [CN])
Revision 2.8.a (2016-03-16)
About: Convert IPTC written in MacRoman encoding into UTF8
Changes: New languages:
* Norwegian (Norsk bokmål [NO]), thanks to paulen
* Swedish (Svenska [SE])
Revision 2.80.0 (2016-03-12)
About: Options added for advanced users management:
- Send an email confirmation of registration to new registered users
- Advanced management of the registration confirmation (sending reminder emails, setting a time limit to confirm registration, ... )
- Advanced management of "Ghost" users (users who haven't visited the gallery since x days) with reminder emails
- Automated management of users waiting for registration validation and for ghost users
- Requires a nickname for guest comments
- Allows application of an email provider exclusion list (ie : @hotmail.com, @msn.com,...) to new registrations
... And many more features to discover ;-)
The following capabilities are only necessary and activated for versions of Piwigo less than 2.x:
- Email address mandatory for new users
- Not allow the same email address to be used for separate accounts
- Make user accounts case insensitive to prevent multiple account creation using only case differences
Changes: Piwigo 2.8 compatibility check. Known issues : Shortcut to user's profile does not work anymore