Hello.

I use self-hosted piwigo for some years (i like it) with videojs extension. But this videojs extension is... pretty old. Because of that it lacks support of newer compression. For example there is issue about h265 support from 2016... :( And there is h265, h266, vp9, av1...

[Github] piwigo-videojs issue #101

If you want to have videos beside of photos now, you can:

1. Produce videos with h264 codec. It's pretty supported, but it's very old (first published 2004) and bad image quality for now. You have to use big bitrate and/or accept that the picture quality will be terrible today, let alone in a few years.

2. Produce videos with h264 for Piwigo and then produce another with better compression for archive. Have two (big) files per video. And change (reupload) files somewhere in future.

3. Have videos somewhere else than Piwigo. Which is not conducive to order and user experience (parents!), there are problems with permissions, etc.

My question: is there a way to make Piwigo usefull for videos again? If not, is there a developers willing to create something more modern?

Thanks.