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[PHPClient]

Hi Mario,

As I've imported 1000's of RedTube videos into my site and several weeks have passed, my site is beginning to show the effects of Thumbnail/Video Removals initiated by RedTube.

The site is beginning to display many "missing" thumbnails.

Is there a solution or suggestion to help fix this issue?

I understand that it's coming from RedTube's side, but I'm thinking if the script can be lightening fast in identifying duplicates in the import feature, can it equally be as fast in going through missing and/or unpopulating thumbnails?

Thanks 

[Marius P.]

Hi,

this may be a feature to come in the next version of the plugin.
Problem is you can't rely 100% on what redtube returns, sometimes it returns 200 header (which means ok) sometimes 404 (missing) for common, stable videos.

[PHPClient]

Understood.

I've been manually deleting them and testing before deletion.  All come back as "non-playing" and missing thumbnail both on front-end and back-end (Admin) of site.

If given the choice of deleting ALL questionable/missing files or having a site with a bunch of "holes" in it, I would rather delete the files and use the importer to re-import videos of the category in which I deleted.  It's a little more maintenance work for the Admin, but it's better than a poor looking site, after you haven't logged-in for a week to check-up. 

If the plug-in for the deletion of these files indicates to the Admin what category is was deleted from, the admin could run a cron-job and recapture some of the videos with new material too. - That should be sufficient enough.

[Marius P.]

It would need to feed a list daily, is a bit more complicated than a few lines of code, this is why I would leave it after the 4.0 upgrade, to not delay it over the limit.
Also for security purpose, it would better just "unpublish" the videos, instead of deleting it.