FastPix video picker for TinyMCE (tiny_fastpix)

Pick one of your FastPix videos from inside the editor and drop it into the page — no playback ids, no hand-typed short codes.

tiny_fastpix is the authoring half of the FastPix suite. Where filter_fastpix turns a short code into a player for readers, this plugin gives authors a button that finds the right video and writes the short code for them. It uploads nothing and plays nothing itself; it only helps you reference a video you already have.

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The 30-second tour

1. A teacher opens any TinyMCE editor — a forum post, a Page, a Book chapter, a label.
2. They click Insert FastPix video (or Insert → FastPix video).
3. A dialog shows their videos. They can scroll, or type to search the whole library by name.
4. They click one. {fastpix:pb_<id>} appears at the cursor.

When someone later reads that content, filter_fastpix swaps the short code for a player. The author never has to know the playback id existed.

What lands in the editor

The plugin inserts a single short code wherever the cursor is:

{fastpix:pb_96df2713-bd26-4815-8b8d-8ab7674aa751}

You can type around it, put several on a page, or delete it like any other text. The matching pb_<id> always points at the exact video the author chose.

What shows up in the picker

The list is deliberately narrow, so an author can only insert a video that will actually play:

Rule	Why
Your videos only	The dialog is scoped to the signed-in user — you never see another teacher's library.
Ready only	Videos still uploading or processing are hidden until FastPix finishes them.
Playable only	DRM-protected videos are left out — filter_fastpix can't embed them, so offering them would only insert a dead short code.
Named, not numbered	Each result shows the video's activity name (falling back to Untitled video), not a raw UUID.

Searching looks across your whole library by activity name and title, so a big collection is still one keystroke away — not just the most recent handful.

Setting it up

You need the rest of the FastPix suite first. This is a picker, not a standalone tool:

Plugin	Role for the picker	Minimum
local_fastpix	Stores the videos and answers "what does this user own?"	1.0.0
mod_fastpix	Defines mod/fastpix:uploadmedia, the permission that gates the button	1.0.0
filter_fastpix	Renders the short code the picker inserts — must be enabled	1.0.0

Also: Moodle 4.5 LTS or newer with the TinyMCE editor, and PHP 8.1+ (tested to 8.3). The picker itself adds no tables, holds no FastPix credentials, and pulls in no Composer packages.

Install it the usual Moodle way — upload the ZIP under Site administration → Plugins → Install plugins, or drop the folder at lib/editor/tiny/plugins/fastpix/ and finish the upgrade at Notifications. Moodle will refuse the install until the three plugins above are present.

After it's in, there's nothing to switch on for the button — it appears in the toolbar automatically for anyone holding mod/fastpix:uploadmedia. Do double-check that the FastPix filter is turned on under Site administration → Plugins → Filters → Manage filters, otherwise the videos authors insert will show up to readers as plain {fastpix:…} text.

Who can use it

The button and the web service behind it share one gate — there is no separate capability to manage:

Capability	Effect	Owned by
mod/fastpix:uploadmedia	Holders see the toolbar button and can list their own videos; everyone else gets no button at all.	mod_fastpix

Good to know

• TinyMCE only. The button isn't added to Atto or other editors. That's an authoring limit — filter_fastpix still renders short codes whatever produced them, so content written elsewhere (or by hand) still plays.
• No uploading here. New videos come in through a mod_fastpix activity and surface in the picker once they're ready. An upload tab is on the roadmap.
• A video only appears for the teacher recorded as its owner.

Privacy

The picker keeps no personal data of its own. It ships a null_provider and leaves all storage to local_fastpix. The detail lives in classes/privacy/provider.php.

Help and links

• Questions or bugs → the issue tracker.
• Step-by-step setup → the TinyMCE picker guide.
• New to FastPix on Moodle? Start with the foundation plugin.
• What changed and when → the changelog.

License

© 2026 FastPix Inc. Distributed under the GNU GPL v3.0 or later; full text in LICENSE.