Thanks for your positive feedback and for your question. I know there is a lot of documentation and it can be hard to pick out an answer for a specific application. The short answer, though, is “yes”.
You can use a custom markup template to compose a table-based gallery. One example can be found in the “A Table-based Style and Markup Template Example” section of the Settings/Media Library Assistant Documentation tab. The “Item” section of the template in the example shows you how to access data like Title, Description and Tags (the terms: entry). You can also find information and examples in these earlier topics:
Displaying text above the gallery, mla_heading
PDF Feed alignment and numbering results
You can also get a similar result without a custom template with something like this:
[mla_gallery columns=1 post_mime_type=video size=icon mla_caption="{+title+} - {+description+} - {+terms:attachment_category+} - length?"]
You can substitute attachment_tag or post_tag for attachment_category depending on which taxonomy you use for your “Tags”.
I do not know where to source the “Length” element. I can see a playtime_string (and a playtime_seconds) element in the video metadata but there is no code in the current MLA version to extract it. I will investigate the possibility of adding an enhancement to my next MLA version.
You may find this earlier topic of interest:
Audio Player
The solution there can easily be adapted to show the video-player.
I will leave this topic unresolved until I hear from you if the above suggestions make sense. I will also investigate playtime_string. Thanks for your interest in the plugin.
Thank your for the response David, very useful indeed! What great support.
Regards the video length, I see this in Attachment Metadata for the mp4 videos I am uploading:
array (
'filesize' => 55498918,
'mime_type' => 'video/quicktime',
'length' => 75,
'length_formatted' => '1:15',
'width' => 640,
'height' => 480,
'fileformat' => 'mp4',
'dataformat' => 'quicktime',
'audio' =>
array (
'dataformat' => 'mp4',
'codec' => 'ISO/IEC 14496-3 AAC',
'sample_rate' => 48000,
'channels' => 2,
'bits_per_sample' => 16,
'lossless' => false,
'channelmode' => 'stereo',
),
)
Any way we can pull that “length_formatted” to output?
Turns it it was very easy, using:
[+meta:length_formatted+]
David your plugin is genuinely an incredible achievement, I’m only just scratching the surface but it is obviously extremely powerful. With a bit of spit and polish, you could wrap this up into a premium product, and reap rewards for your work (I will be making a donation, mind!).
Thanks for your update and the kind words. Thanks as well for your offer to make a donation in support of the plugin and our Fair Trade work. Donations, reviews and positive feedback are a great motivator to keep working on the plugin and supporting its users.
I keep spitting and polishing when I can, but I’m always distracted by adding another feature; I’m more a plumber than a painter, as you can see. Meeting my own personal standards for a Premium product would be a very tall order.
I am marking this topic resolved, but please update it if you have problems or further questions regarding accessing and displaying metadata in your [mla_gallery] output. Thanks for your interest in and support of the plugin.
