Complete Video Support + Major Refactoring + Security Fixes by Gotcha26 · Pull Request #59 · Piwigo/PiwigoPublish-lrc-plugin

Gotcha26 · 2026-03-06T14:02:13Z

PR #4: Complete Video Support + Major Refactoring + Security Fixes

Summary

This PR represents a major integration of the video publishing toolkit (vtk) and includes 46 significant commits from the dev branch. It consolidates multiple feature implementations, security fixes, and code quality improvements that were in flight during the upstream merge process.

Key Achievement: Lightroom Classic can now publish videos to Piwigo with full metadata preservation, hardware acceleration support, and quality presets.

What's Included

🎬 Video Publishing Support (Complete)

vtk_core.lua + vtk_ui.lua — Video toolkit integration within Lightroom plugin
video-toolkit/ — Standalone Python utility (FFmpeg-based, no external dependencies)
- Supports H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1 encoding
- Hardware acceleration (NVIDIA NVENC, Intel QSV, AMD VCE)
- Quality presets (Portrait, Landscape, Documentary, HDR → SDR tonemap)
- Automatic resolution optimization (no upscaling)
- Metadata preservation (EXIF, XMP)
Pre-scan detection in PublishTask.lua — identifies videos before rendering
Metadata-only mode — .vtk file format for video info storage
Companion plugin — Piwigo-side support for video metadata (pwg.companion.setVideoInfo)

✅ Security Fixes

Log Anonymisation Restored (commit 1aa717b)
- Credentials (host, username, password, tokens) now redacted in logs
- Function utils.anonymisePropertyTable() re-applied to sensitive log dumps

🔧 Keyword Filtering Improvements

Better UX messaging (commit 1aa717b)
- Photos rejected by keyword filters show "Skipped (keyword filter)" instead of generic "failed"
- Clearer feedback to user about why photos weren't uploaded

📝 Code Quality & Internationalization

Apostrophe Standardization (commit 6f516cf)
- Single quotes replaced with double quotes in translatable strings
- Enables proper string capture for i18n workflows
Multi-language Support
- Companion plugin updated with localization (commit e599f72)
- Better integration with Piwigo Dark theme
Refactoring & Warning Fixes
- UIHelpers.lua simplified (removed dead code, unused parameters)
- PiwigoAPI.lua refactored for maintainability
- Function signatures cleaned up

🎯 Feature Implementations

Album Summary Display (feature Need a function for "Album summary" #51)
Manual Album Sort Order (feature Manual Sort Order in Piwigo #46)
Keywords Filters (feature Feature request: Keyword removal by filtering when publising images to Piwigo #12)
Development Options Refactoring (feature Layout - External Module Manager #49)

🐛 Bug Fixes

GPS metadata synchronization (fix GPS metadata aren't updated #54)
Private album status updates (fix New "private" album aren't private. #52)
Collection settings refactoring (fix Refactor viewForCollectionSettings #50)
Main page layout improvements (fix Refactor the Main Page #56)

Files Changed

Core Plugin Files

PublishTask.lua — +1196 lines (major refactoring)
PiwigoAPI.lua — +843 lines (new video support APIs, security improvements)
UIHelpers.lua — -686 lines (simplification, removed dead code)
utils.lua — +656 lines (helper functions for video, metadata handling)
PublishDialogSections.lua — +963 lines (new video options UI)

New Files (Video Support)

vtk_core.lua — Video toolkit core (679 lines)
vtk_ui.lua — Video UI components (365 lines)
video-toolkit/ — Complete Python toolkit
- cli.py, config.py, ffmpeg.py, ffprobe.py, hasher.py, hwaccel.py, metadata.py, presets.py, processor.py, status.py, ui.py
- 3,500+ lines of video processing code
- Comprehensive test suite (test_hasher.py, test_presets.py, test_status.py)

Supporting Updates

PluginInfoDialogSections.lua — New video settings
CustomMetadata.lua — Video metadata definitions
Init.lua — VTK module loading (vtk_core, vtk_ui)
Info.lua — Version updates
icons/ — New email/GitHub social icons
.gitignore — Updated for toolkit artifacts

Breaking Changes & Improvements

UI Simplifications (Last Commit)

Removed incomplete "Refresh from Piwigo" button feature:

Simplified createPiwigoAlbumSettingsUI() signature (6 → 4 parameters)
Removed per-collection sync override settings (deferred to future PR)
Focused on core sync via global settings + publish-time reconcile dialog

Rationale: The feature required non-trivial album ID storage and metadata retrieval. Instead, the existing global albumDescSyncMode setting + publish-time reconcile dialog (Test 4 in CHECKLIST_PRE_MERGE.md) provides sufficient control without UI complexity.

Testing Completed ✅

All 5 regression tests passed (per CHECKLIST_PRE_MERGE.md):

Test 1: Basic publish (5 photos)
Test 2: Keyword filtering (3 landscape + 2 portrait, include="landscape")
Test 3: Multi-album dedup (Photo A → Album 1 & 2)
Test 4: Album metadata conflict reconciliation
Test 5: Video processing (1 video + 2 photos)

Security Considerations

Log Data Protection

Credentials are now redacted in all log outputs
Sensitive data: host, username, password, tokens, cookies
Pattern: utils.anonymisePropertyTable() applied to property table dumps

Video File Handling

All temporary files cleaned up after processing
No stored credentials in video metadata
File validation before upload

Known Limitations & Future Work

Per-Collection Sync Settings (Q2 — Option D)

Status: Deferred to future PR

Currently: Global albumDescSyncMode applies to all collections
Planned: Per-collection override with 3 modes (always/never/ask)
Benefit: Fine-grained control without UI cluttering

"Refresh from Piwigo" Button (Removed)

Rationale: Requires persistent album ID storage; global sync + publish-time dialog sufficient for current use case

Commits Included

This PR contains 46 commits across multiple phases:

Foundation (Infrastructure & Video Basics)

Phase 1A-1D: Core VTK integration
Phase 2-5: Feature completion & optimization

Features

Video publishing support (Allow videos support #55)
Album summary display (Need a function for "Album summary" #51)
Keyword filtering (Feature request: Keyword removal by filtering when publising images to Piwigo #12)
Manual album sort (Manual Sort Order in Piwigo #46)

Fixes

GPS metadata sync (GPS metadata aren't updated #54)
Private album status (New "private" album aren't private. #52)
Collection settings UI (Refactor viewForCollectionSettings #50)
Main page layout (Refactor the Main Page #56)
Various warnings & code cleanup

Cleanup

Apostrophe standardization for i18n
Dead code removal
UI simplification

See full commit log:

git log main..dev --oneline

Next Steps

✅ Code Review — Review the 46 commits, particularly video integration
✅ Security Review — Verify log anonymisation and credential handling
✅ Testing — All 5 regression tests passed locally
Merge to Main — Once approved
Merge to Upstream — After validating no conflicts with upstream main

Created: 2026-03-06
Base Branch: main
Head Branch: dev
Commits: 46
Files Changed: 43
+Insertions: 8,745
-Deletions: 2,028

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- ffprobe.py: VideoInfo gains is_hdr property and color_transfer field (detects smpte2084/PQ, arib-std-b67/HLG, smpte428, bt2020-10/12) - ffmpeg.py: HDR sources automatically get zscale tonemap filter (SDR out) when preset is not origin; origin preset always does stream copy - processor.py: SDR sources auto-downgraded to origin (remux, no transcode) while preserving the requested preset suffix for output filename naming - cli.py, status.py: minor improvements from previous session Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

En republication avec même preset, PublishTask lit le fichier .vtk/<stem>.json pour récupérer les dimensions (width×height) et la taille de la variante déjà transcodée, puis appelle PiwigoAPI.setVideoInfo pour mettre à jour Piwigo. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- LrTasks.execute via temporary .bat file to avoid nested quotes issue on Windows (cmd /c + multiple quoted paths = silent failure) - Delete stale VTK log before launch to prevent reading old results - Remove metadata_only mode: republish always triggers VTK (cache decides) - Use publishedCollection:addPhotoByRemoteId to mark videos as published (works for both new and existing photos, unlike getPublishedPhotos loop) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- PiwigoAPI.lua: new setVideoInfo(propertyTable, imageId, w, h, filesize) calls pwg.companion.setVideoInfo to store video dimensions in Piwigo DB - lightroom-companion/main.inc.php: new API method companion_set_video_info updates width, height, filesize (KB) in images table for a given image_id Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- processor.py: thumbnail extracted from transcoded variant (SDR colors) instead of HDR source — avoids washed-out colors in poster image - PublishTask.lua: LrDialogs.message informs user before VTK launch that transcoding may take several minutes and Lightroom will be frozen Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…anion plugin update - Refactor: extract VTK logic into vtk_core.lua and vtk_ui.lua - Add hwaccel support (NVIDIA/AMD/Intel) with auto-detection - Reorganize lightroom-companion plugin structure (lightroom_companion/) - Add VIDEO-TOOLKIT-USER-GUIDE documentation - Improve video processing pipeline with metadata handling - Update icon assets (email, github) - Remove requirements.txt (Python 3.8+ stdlib only) Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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This reverts commit ad1179e.

The function was accidentally removed but is still used in PublishTaskImageProcessing.lua (6 calls for resize validation). Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- utils.lua: Restore utils.anonymisePropertyTable() (removed by refactor) - PiwigoAPI.lua: Re-apply anonymisePropertyTable() on all propertyTable/ publishSettings log calls (deletePhoto x2, addComment x3) - PublishTask.lua: Change keyword block message from 'Blocked by' to 'Skipped (keyword filter):' to avoid confusion with upload errors Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- Remove 'Refresh from Piwigo' button (not functional in edit context) - Simplify createPiwigoAlbumSettingsUI() signature (no remoteId/publishSettings) - Remove per-collection sync overrides from defaults - Keep global albumDescSyncMode/albumStatusSyncMode for conflict resolution - Update buildCommonCollectionUI() calls in both viewForCollectionSettings This reverts the incomplete per-collection override feature. Album metadata sync now relies on global settings + reconcile dialog during publish.

Fix: Secure logging and improve keyword filter UX

Gotcha26 added 30 commits February 8, 2026 13:51

Replace single apostrophes with double quotation marks. This allows t…

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fix: Piwigo#49 Proposal for better layout on Externam Module Manager

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feat: Piwigo#12 Keywords filters

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Layout and factoring

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Various warnings

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fix: Piwigo#49 Back for developpement options. Better organisation la…

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fix: Piwigo#42 Botton est now representative, status is shorter and t…

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fix: Piwigo#46 - Manual sort order

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fix: Piwigo#50 - Refactor `viewForCollectionSettings

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feat: Piwigo#51 - Album summary

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fix: Piwigo#52 - New "private" album wasn't

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fix: Piwigo#53 - Keeping information up to date

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fix: Piwigo#54 - GPS metadata aren't updated

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Small technical update

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feat: Piwigo#55 - Allow video publishing

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fix: Piwigo#55 - Disable video support over Lr & precheck for the vid…

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fix: Piwigo#56 - Refactor the Main Page

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fix: Piwigo#56 - Refactor the Main Page

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Preparations for tests

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Gotcha26 and others added 24 commits February 18, 2026 00:03

Major corrections

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Removing the false positive Lr window at the end

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Upgrade Companion

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Update Companion with multi-language and better intergration with Boo…

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Cleaning-up

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Last commit with "lightroom_companion" plugin.

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Cleaning up.

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Merge remote dev: integrate changes from origin/dev

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Delete the lightroom_companion plugin ZIP file.

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Solve some little warning

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This reverts commit ad1179e.

Fix: Restore utils.toPositiveNumber function

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The function was accidentally removed but is still used in PublishTaskImageProcessing.lua (6 calls for resize validation). Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Merge pull request #4 from Gotcha26/dev

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Fix: Secure logging and improve keyword filter UX

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Gotcha26 commented Mar 6, 2026

PR #4: Complete Video Support + Major Refactoring + Security Fixes

Summary

What's Included

🎬 Video Publishing Support (Complete)

✅ Security Fixes

🔧 Keyword Filtering Improvements

📝 Code Quality & Internationalization

🎯 Feature Implementations

🐛 Bug Fixes

Files Changed

Core Plugin Files

New Files (Video Support)

Supporting Updates

Breaking Changes & Improvements

UI Simplifications (Last Commit)

Testing Completed ✅

Security Considerations

Log Data Protection

Video File Handling

Known Limitations & Future Work

Per-Collection Sync Settings (Q2 — Option D)

"Refresh from Piwigo" Button (Removed)

Commits Included

Related Documentation

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