Video Gallery loads sllllooooow

[Kane]

I use my gallery exclusively for videos and it is loading so slow that it's almost unusable. I dont mean the videos are slow, but the actual homepage and the category view. Every other page of my site loads fast except those associated with 4images, so it's not the server.

I use a custom template without the random images thing, so it's not that.

It seems to load slower as I add more video types, when I remove them it loads faster again. Is there a reason for this???

[Kane]

As a test I modified the valid file extensions to only include images and now it's running fast again! But the videos don't work, of course.

[Acidgod]

you can activate the caching... (o:

[Kane]

How do I activate caching? I don't see an option for it in the amdin panel.

Also that doesn't explain why this problem would occur in the first place. Does anyone know why?

[Kane]

I figured out how to activate the cache but it's still slow as crap. I think that this is a glitch/flaw in 4images itself and I'd like to hear from one of the developers what is going on.

[V@no]

its because 4images is using getimagesize() PHP function, which "reads" file content in order to determing what type is it. Video files are usualy big and server might have not enough resources to read entire file fast enough. 4images was not build for video files, even though it supports them

[Kane]

Ok, thanks for the reply. That is what I was looking for, an explanation for why it's happening.

It looks like the cache method makes it a lot faster, though it's still not as smooth as I'd like for it to be. I'm going to try and hack the files myself to see if I can manage a work-around or maybe switch to another script...


edit: Anyone know how I can hack the script to remove getimagesize() and hard code it in to automatically know that every file is a wmv extension?

[soapycats]

just found this post
http://www.4homepages.de/forum/index.php?topic=7713.0

that says,
"I fix this bug.
Replace getimagesize in function.php
with filesize."


I've tried it (made backup first!) but not tested speed difference yet

the directory is:
includes / functions.php

post your results if it works out and/or if you find solution to speeding it up.

best wishes,
michelle

[Kane]

Thanks a bunch man! It's nice to know that some people here are willing to help.

I'm not a programmer myself, I spent three hours last night searching google and tinkering with the includes/functions file before discovering this code "get_file_extension". I replaced "getimagesize" with "get_file_extension" and now everything loads super fast like it's supposed to. The only negative is that I had to edit my template because the file size in the descriptions of the image no longer listed its correct size. 

[scubaguy]

On a video site I'm using the "filesize" fix and the site went from a complete server crash every 5 minutes with 100+ simultaneous users to lightning fast.  Thanks so much for the fix!

[V@no]

all this might work for non-images well, atleast no image dimmentions will be showed either.

[yellows]

done the filesize fix for videos but is there a fix out there to speed the images up

cheers

james

[Mirwais]

YEsss
It helped me!!
http://www.4homepages.de/forum/index.php?topic=7713.0
Loads very fast now


Tnx alot