New Feature: Related Videos

[pvanatta]

First off, I really like this plugin for Piwigo! It's super helpful.

When using YouTube, it says to not use embedded code for YouTube. But when you just use YouTube directly, while it works fine, after my video is finished playing YouTube automatically shows the user related videos. I want users of my site to watch videos I post but I don't really want them to then keep browsing YouTube by following the suggested related videos.

I did try using embed code for YouTube (even though the plugin says not to do so). As with the embed code you can pass one additional parameter in the URL to suppress related videos. Instead of:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/z8GHf-aELjY

you add "?rel=0" to the end of the URL to suppress related videos:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/z8GHf-aELjY?rel=0

This does seem to work okay with the plugin incidentally even though the plugin warns you not to use embedded code for YouTube, but then the thumbnail picture for my videos is missing. I have to create a thumbnail manually and attach it to the video in Piwigo.

Is there any way to add the suppression of related videos when using YouTube directly?

[mistic100]

You can add the parameter in this file https://github.com/mistic100/Piwigo-Embedded-Videos/blob/master/template/video_youtube.tpl just after {$GVIDEO.autoplay}

Perhaps one day it will be configurable.

[pvanatta]

Oh wow, you're fast. Thank you. That should work fine as all my videos would be setup that way so I can just hardcode that additional setting.