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 for this course.
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.
This course only	Only videos uploaded through a FastPix activity in the current course are listed, so a course's editors see just that course's media.
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.

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.

FastPix account & credentials. Using FastPix requires a FastPix account and a FastPix API Key (created in the FastPix Dashboard under Settings → API Keys; see Activate your account). This picker never asks for or stores the key — it is configured once in local_fastpix under Site administration → Plugins → Local plugins → FastPix, and every plugin in the suite (including this one) reads through local_fastpix from there. If listings aren't working, check the credentials in local_fastpix first.

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	Checked at the course context: holders see the toolbar button and can list their own videos in that course; 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, and only in the course it was uploaded to.

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.