Cloudconvert

This module is a wrapper around the CloudConvert API. CloudConvert supports the conversion between more than 200 different audio, video, document, ebook, archive, image, spreadsheet and presentation formats. Check the supported formats for more details.

We created this wrapper so when can created thumbnails for all sort of file formats for example mp4, pdfs, vector formats etc.

Working

First of you need to create an account at CloudConvert, they will give you
an API key that you can set at /admin/config/services/cloudconvert/settings.

Cloudconvert v1 Process

CloudConvert Thumbnail Creation Process

1. Everytime a media item is created, a cloudconvert thumbnail task will be
   created to try to convert the media item file to an image for thumbnail
   use. /admin/config/services/cloudconvert/task
2. This task will be added to the CloudConvert Start queue to send
   this as a task to CloudConvert.com./admin/config/system/queue-ui/inspect/cloudconvert_start_processor
3. CloudConvert.com will then start processing the task and create an image.
   /admin/config/system/queue-ui/inspect/cloudconvert_finish_processor
   When the task is completed it will send a request back to the site to notify the task is
   ready to be finished.
4. This request will create a new CloudConvert Finish
   queue item to download the created thumbnail from CloudConvert and save
   it as a thumbnail to the media entity. On test and acceptation
   environments this might not work because the server might be shielded. It is
   therefor that you can also finish a callback from the list of tasks
   on the site. /admin/config/services/cloudconvert/task