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this thread Brian says a vidcap (still image) upload along with a multimedia file is a "future".
I'm considering forging ahead with it (no harm in a little consideration right?), perhaps as some kind of hack.
(1) I'm a little stuck on the user interface. At upload time, how do you make it plain and simple for the user to specify two related files: here is my video and here is the associated picture.
Does anyone have an idea how that might work or what it would look like ?
My idea is this: photopost made a mistake by creating a thumbnail where a full-size picture should be. A still image is a picture in it's own right. It just has additional play/download links/behaviour.
(2) For those without access to their server guts, uploads are severely limited by execution time and file size. I once got around this by passing the file upload to a perl script. Ugh. Don't want to do that again. Guess we just assume the limits of php.
(3) Anything other than a forced download will play havoc on some browser or other. So whatever additional links there are for "play" or "stream" would need to be controlled by category or usergroup... or something.
Those are the three issues I am aware of. Appreciate any thoughts the community may have (especially number 1!)
Thank you.
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