Moodle plugins directory: Media collection

Hi, I love this plugin but when I create a video gallery, no thumbnail images are shown which is a bit of a visual disappointment. Is there a reason for this?

This works very well, but when copying a course all the students submissions follow into the new course, unlike with other moodle activities. This is a problem, any solutions?

Hi, I really like this plugin. Does anybody know if it works with 3.7?

Hello, We have Moodle 3.6 and the videos are not displayed. We have tested mp4, avi and other mpeg.
Anyone with the same problem? Last year with Moodle 3.4 it worked perfectly.

Hello, We have a problem with the plugin. The videos are not displayed. We have Moodle 3.6.5+ (Build: 20190712) and Media Collection Release 3.5.0.2.
Same server with Moodle 3.4 and Media collection Release 3.3.0.4 works perfectly.
Apache log error:
Default exception handler: Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: Request for an unknown renderer core, media, ajax Debug: \nError code: codingerror\n* line 447 of /lib/outputfactories.php: coding_exception thrown\n* line 2454 of /lib/outputlib.php: call to theme_overridden_renderer_factory->get_renderer()\n* line 864 of /lib/pagelib.php: call to theme_config->get_renderer()\n* line 734 of /mod/mediagallery/renderer.php: call to moodle_page->get_renderer()\n* line 65 of /mod/mediagallery/rest.php: call to mod_mediagallery_renderer->embed_html()\n, referer: https://.../mod/mediagallery/view.php

Any idea what is happening?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Ricardo D, I've just pushed up a new version you can use, "3.6.0.0" that includes the fix I did for 3.7 for the same issue.

I see a warning for the use of the class coursecat that is deprecated but I have it tested in my installation and it works correctly.
Thank you very much

I just installed this on 3.7 and I'm not seeing the ability for anyone to add Timeline Comments to a video. General comments work fine when enabled but the Media Display Interface shown on the UNSW website doesn't look anything like my environment.

What might be missing to cause this?

Hi Jon,
Unfortunately the features you describe from their website are part of a bespoke solution they have - they have an entire media platform separate to Moodle that the plugin is customised to integrate with for them - the timeline comments functionality comes from that separate service.

Hi There
a colleague is getting an error message when trying to set up a new gallery " Too many galleries, please delete or change collection type ", there is currently only one gallery on the specific moodle page - the upload limit is set to 600mb. This is a 3D design course so lots of galleries will need creating. I'm struggling to see a problem with the set up of the gallery - anyone have any clues?

cheers

Hi Chris Baldwin,

It depends on which mode the collection is in, and if a limit on the number of galleries allowed has been set.

That particular error message shows up when the collection is set to "Single" mode - which is intended for just one gallery in the collection total.

Hi, Is there any way to add custom metadata fields?

Hi, As @Peter D. already mentioned, migrating course content using Backup/Restore (with user content excluded) or Course Import methodology, migrates user content from within the activity. This is not ideal as no other activity behaves this way. Can you please fix this?

Hi @sairam and @peter d. I've included a fix for the galleries/items being included in backups when user data was off in the latest version v3.7.0.2. Anyone running an earlier version can apply this to their version by making the change to mod/mediagallery/backup/moodle2/backup_mediagallery_stepslib.php as is done in this commit:
https://github.com/netspotau/moodle-mod_mediagallery/commit/b4321a36b8776b7b086da280cd8c03cc37cbd012

Hi @Leticia Dark-rose,

There is not currently a way to add custom metadata, sorry.