Plugmedia 2.3

Plugmedia was created to enhance the multimedia station embeded in qnap nas firmware. First version of PM was 2.0.1 and was delivered without any database system, but for performance issue, plugmedia is now linked with an open source database Postgresql

Release notes

Private 2.3 (Public)

• 10: [Change Request] Image details: Admin should be able to add title and description
• 31: [Change Request] Support AdoDb (for caching sql query and speed PM)
• 37: [Change Request] Flush Buffer
• 32: [Bug] Usergroup adding - error removes all changes
• 15: [Change Request] Title and description
• 34: [Change Request] Add photo tagging function
• 6: [Change Request] In Administration: User and group listing should not be seperated by ";"
• 24: [Change Request] Replace Item selector in Administration
• 9: [Change Request] Buttons on top right - better differentiation between active and inactive state
• 23: [Change Request] Replace POST to GET for ajax requests
• 21: [Change Request] Compress Javascript and CSS files
• 19: [Change Request] Comments should be updated independently of MP3 playback
• 3: [Change Request] Administration - Add user, user gets automatically an email with login password
• 25: [Bug] Tree view doesn't expand while generate thumbnails

Private 2.3 (beta)

• 10: [Change Request] Image details: Admin should be able to add title and description
• 31: [Change Request] Support AdoDb (for caching sql query and speed PM)
• 37: [Change Request] Flush Buffer
• 32: [Bug] Usergroup adding - error removes all changes
• 15: [Change Request] Title and description
• 34: [Change Request] Add photo tagging function
• 6: [Change Request] In Administration: User and group listing should not be seperated by ";"
• 24: [Change Request] Replace Item selector in Administration
• 9: [Change Request] Buttons on top right - better differentiation between active and inactive state
• 23: [Change Request] Replace POST to GET for ajax requests
• 21: [Change Request] Compress Javascript and CSS files
• 19: [Change Request] Comments should be updated independently of MP3 playback
• 3: [Change Request] Administration - Add user, user gets automatically an email with login password
• 25: [Bug] Tree view doesn't expand while generate thumbnails

Public 2.2

• 59: [Bug] Filter administration - you can add "empty" filters
• 53: [Bug] Impossible to access a directory with files removed
• 60: [Bug] In usergroup adminsitration - reset the form doesnt work
• 47: [Bug] Indexing was done more than 10 times, while opening a new directory
• 52: [Bug] Some thumbs are not created, even though the rights are set correctly*
• 57: [Change Request] Support for RAW files
• 58: [Change Request] Add cover/id3 options in admin
• 0000089: [Bug] Video-Playback doesnt work (administrator)
• 0000088: [Bug] Music-Playback: If you hit the little thumbs below the music player, the screen stays blank (administrator)
• 0000091: [Bug] Displaying image 1 and 2 in one folder results in doubled thumbs below midsized view and corrupt navigation (administrator)
• 0000081: [Bug] Login-Screen: OK button doesn't work (administrator)
• 0000082: [Change request] First login - even the admin has no access rights in the beginning (administrator)
• 0000084: [Bug] Picture with the following name "IM000471[1].jpg" caused "ressource protected" error (administrator)
• 0000086: [Change request] Image order not as known... (administrator)
• 0000093: [Bug] If you click an image file in list view, no mid-sized picture (or ressource protecteD) is shown (administrator)
• 0000095: [Bug] Midsized-thumbs . if clicked, the pop-up windows shows the image in the wrong aspect ratio (administrator)
• 0000042: [Change request] iconv (administrator)
• 0000080: [Change request] Find art album based on pattern (administrator)
• 0000017: [Change request] Auto-Rotation on EXIF information - also for thumbs (administrator)
• 0000025: [Change request] Download - instead of opening directly there should be a choice (administrator)
• 0000011: [Change request] Database clean-up for Admin only (administrator)
• 0000002: [Bug] Footer - shown "generated time" behind "hosted on QNAP" is in an unusable format (administrator)
• 0000076: [Bug] If an photo album contains pictures in more than one page, and thumbs are not created yet, an image cannot be viewed directly (administrator)
• 0000046: [Change request] Download system (administrator)
• 0000044: [Task] Testing (administrator)
• 0000048: [Change request] Overwrite embeded QNAP method to generate thumbnail (administrator)
• 0000051: [Change request] Open SSL (administrator)
• 0000063: [Change request] Replace EXIF embeded in PHP (administrator)

Private 2.1

• 0000028: [Change request] Login popup window should accept "enter" after entering passphrase (administrator)
• 0000079: [Change request] Index all files in Database (Postgresql) (administrator)

Public 2.0.1

• 0000075: [Bug] Column header are not translated
• 0000074: [Change request] Add support for nl language
• 0000073: [Bug] Fatal error (lookup didn't exist)
• 0000072: [Bug] Incorrect ID3 tag displayed
• 0000003: [Bug] EXIF-view: Filedate is shown in wrong format (administrator)

FAQ

Who makes Plugmedia?

This project is a joint effort between Christophe L (PM system) and Laurent P (qpkg package)

What's in the package?

Here's a short list of current Plugmedia features:

• Auto rotate images
• Gallery-wide slideshow
• Commenting
• Logging
• RSS supports
• Account permission (sync with nas's users)
• Customizing API
• Download system
• Album tree
• Supports multimedia files
• Radio Streaming
• Blogging Link
• Display RAW files (.3fr,.arw,.crw,.cr2,.dng,.kdc,.mrw,.nef,.orf,.ptx,.pef,.raf,.x3f,.rw2)
• METADATA extraction (ID3 tags v1, v2; Exifs tags)
• Download Cover (embedded in ID3 or downloaded on Last.Fm)
• Templates
• Mobile Web Application (iphone)
• Tagging feature

What are the future plans?

Current release is 2.2. The 3.0 release, which is the next major release, will introduce following changes (list is incomplete as of this writing):

• Download folders in a zip
• Sharing pictures via email
• Google map integration
• Change design on the fly
• Improve Thumbnail generation
• IP tracking
• Resizing picture on the fly
• ...

Installing Plugmedia

• Download and install QPKG Optware and Postgresql
• Start the Postgresql package
• Download Plugmedia QPKG package and install it
• Login in plugmedia using admin/password from your NAS (account admin)

Note: If you have a blank screen or somes problems, just open the page plugmedia/check.php and correct red lines according to description

Thanks

Thanks to Andre and Roland my firsts beta testers for their time and help. Thanks also to Arnaud for RAW idea and Xavier for beta testing 2.2