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Sure, thank you! 
I was just checking here because this was early last year that the issue happened (and I manually was able to resolve it since only a relatively small amount of files were affected)... so I was more just checking if this was a known thing that had already been resolved. Guessing from your reply perhaps not though! 
Thanks again. 

This sounds like a job for Support Ticket®

When you get a moment, jot this down in a ticket and we'll get it sent to the developers to look at.

Thank you. I was going crazy with this until I found this topic. 

I've been experimenting with some options that should help improve the behavior in an upcoming release. 👍

Thank you very much!
Right now it really is just the same very small selection of choices over and over again. Doesn't need to be genuinely random, just some way to not constantly cycle through the exact same images. 

We have to do a pseudo-random ordering for sites with large galleries, because MySQL's "ORDER BY RAND()" is extremely expensive from a performance angle. That said, it is possible we can improve our pseudo-random selections a bit - I'll take a look.

I am also having this issue! 

It's on our radar

Nearly a year on and worryingly I don't think there has been any update in terms of video support.
I understand Invision is primarily a forum and not a video CMS, but video content is something that I am sure is important to most modern online communities, so I would love to see some steps to update the handling of videos within the gallery. Lots of great suggestions within this thread already. 

Exactly - it feels like the functionality is essentially already there with commerce + downloads, but just not an option for members to create their own 'shops'. 

This is still the case.

Have same problem - only shows same image in sidebar widget - choosed random (1) from all albums but no effect!

Happy new year,
I really like some posts I get from services like Spotify and Hootsuite which shows my use of the service during the year. For example I'm sure you know Spotify shows you every December (it's calling it Wrapped 2020) which songs were your favorites one, which genre you liked more, how many minutes you heard music and so many other interesting stats. 
It will be interesting to have a similar feature where a user of our community could visit a page and see specific stats about him and his presence in the site. Some examples could be "how many posts/topic you've creates", "how many reactions you've used", "how many pm's you've send", "which forum category you posted most of your messages", "which file you downloaded more", "your most popular message" etc. It could also be nice if the feature could be expanded in order to support 3rd party apps.
Just my 2 cents.

Video is now a must for many communities. We really need better video features. There is also this Amazon service to process video files:
https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/
So it is now possible to have better video on the communities with low cost.

I was so disappointed to see 4.5 seems to have no video improvements at all. I appreciate there's only so many things that can be prioritised, but I just feel like video content is so fundamental now, and yet video support still feels so far behind with ips.
I mean the gallery feature literally still calls a video an 'image'. Would love to see some kind of video encoding, ability to generate thumbnails, and a custom/standard video player etc. Would totally transform the gallery (and forum) experience.  

I can take a look at this when I have fully upgraded all my apps and plugins.
Obviously confirm with your host but the content is hosted by YouTube and should count towards their bandwidth.
Facebook videos should be supported already because IPB supports them. Do you have an example video that is not working?
I can't reproduce this. Have you tried with the default theme? Any template changes in the Videos app that need reverting?
The quick add or when you manually add a video?

it has been requested so long time ago, we need this feature to develop commerce inside a community already builded...this will help us (ips admins) to earn money and keep our forums projects more supported. But I don't know why....😌

If you contact me here with what information you think you used to purchase, I can help track it down.
I'm really quite flat out with IPB 4.5 updates so although I'm open to the idea, I probably couldn't look into it for a while.
That's an IPS error, you'll need to contact them why your getting it. I don't have any control over that. Did you make a backup of your site before upgrading? If so, I can help restore the videos that way.
No not supported. Permissions for each category if that's what you mean? No compression, just raw video uploads. File storage settings supported, so you can set the storage path like any other app. HTML5 player. I can setup a demo if you would like to check it out but the Videos app is really much focused on video sites like YouTube and only offers basic video upload support.

Hi @Michael.J,
Just curious, would you be open to the idea of allowing user uploaded videos to your application (i.e. upload direct to the site) as opposed to simply linking to media from youtube, vimeo etc?
I realise this can be done in the IPS gallery, but it's very clunky. Videos are called images. There's no automatic thumbnail generation. There's no compression. It relies on user's own video player rather than a standard one. Etc
Lots of features are missing from it that make it very usable as a video gallery, whereas your application seems like it would be ideal for this.
I'm not sure if it's something you've considered, but I'd certainly be happy to contribute to the development costs if it were. 
Thanks.

There is this option in the settings.

Hi @Michael.J,
Just curious, would you be open to the idea of allowing user uploaded videos to your application (i.e. upload direct to the site) as opposed to simply linking to media from youtube, vimeo etc?
I realise this can be done in the IPS gallery, but it's very clunky. Videos are called images. There's no automatic thumbnail generation. There's no compression. It relies on user's own video player rather than a standard one. Etc
Lots of features are missing from it that make it very usable as a video gallery, whereas your application seems like it would be ideal for this.
I'm not sure if it's something you've considered, but I'd certainly be happy to contribute to the development costs if it were. 
Thanks.

+1

This would be a fantastic addition to any site!

Fingers cross for invision community 5.0 maybe? 😁 I just feel like the videos in the gallery right now feel tacked on the end (perhaps highlighted best by the fact that videos are still referred to as an 'image' when editing them in the gallery). 
As the internet becomes more and more driven by video content, I would love to see Invision adapt. 

A long shot I know, but I'd love to see the gallery become a truly video-friendly place. 
> Automatic thumbnail option (generated from midway point in video perhaps)
> Video compression options
> Inbuilt video player, rather than relying on users browser's video player. 
 
Would be willing to pay for anyone who developed these features too.