Title: Remote Upload
Last modified: May 10, 2017

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# Remote Upload

 *  [intercambio1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intercambio1/)
 * (@intercambio1)
 * [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-upload-2/)
 * Hi, how can I make this plugin work when uploading media remotely, for example
   using the WordPress android app to upload videos to the library.
    Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [intercambio1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intercambio1/)
 * (@intercambio1)
 * [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-upload-2/#post-9115695)
 * Apparently, This plugin doesn’t detect that new video is uploading if it’s uploaded
   remotely using the XML-RPC API.
 *  Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * (@kylegilman)
 * [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-upload-2/#post-9117598)
 * That’s very likely since I’ve never tested XML-RPC, but this plugin does a lot
   of different things. What specific function isn’t working if you upload the video
   using XML-RPC?
 *  Thread Starter [intercambio1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intercambio1/)
 * (@intercambio1)
 * [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-upload-2/#post-9118483)
 * Thanks for the quick reply.
    All the automatic upload functions do not work, 
   I’m interested specifically in fixing the generation of a thumbnail automatically
   while the video is being uploaded. Regards
 *  Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * (@kylegilman)
 * [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-upload-2/#post-9118511)
 * Got it. I’ll do some testing but it might take me a while to get to the bottom
   of it. For what it’s worth, no matter how you upload videos, thumbnails can’t
   be created until after the entire file is uploaded.
 * I’m just throwing out guesses, but if your site is private and not getting any
   other traffic, the WP-Cron feature that the automatic thumbnail generation relies
   on probably wouldn’t be triggered if nobody is accessing the site except through
   the Android app.
 *  Thread Starter [intercambio1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intercambio1/)
 * (@intercambio1)
 * [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-upload-2/#post-9118939)
 * I was referring to this FFMPEG option in plugin settings:
    + Generate (1) thumbnail
   from 50% of the way through the video.
 * I can confirm that accessing the website or the video link in a normal browser
   doesn’t change anything.

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