Video

I'm working on a migration path from the video module to the filefield module (using jQuery Media for playback). In terms of database language, I'm a Filemaker hack so I'm seriously struggling with many aspects of mysql, but I think I have laid out a good plan for attack and have a really good starting point to work from. I'm basically adapting a migration script that Moshe built for us at CCTV to migrate from the Image module to Imagefield.

Hello fellow media enthusiasts...

This is a cross-post of a forum topic that I recently added about a brand new media player that I built for Drupal CMS (http://drupal.org/node/295597)... Please forgive me for the cross-post, but I felt this topic has much relevance in this group. I basically created a Media Player that uses Services and the Views module to create and manage media playlists using Drupal CMS. I also created a project page at http://www.drupal.org/project/dashplayer, and here is the homepage for the player... http://www.tmtdigital.com/project/dash_player. This player works with most if not all media modules in Drupal, and is able to query your views using remoting technology to construct its playlists on the fly. There are many other features, but those are discussed in the forum topic.

I've been doing some thinking about the future of the asset module. First of all, I'm completely dedicated to bringing it to Drupal 6 and beyond. What is not sure however is in which form it will move forward. With the improved hook_form and specifically with filefield and emfield tying into the youtube api, flvmediaplayer, the new media player et al, I certainly don't want to duplicate efforts. The asset module itself is quite a big project and maintaining it requires a lot of my time.

That's why I've been thinking lately of stripping the asset module down to the asset wizard: leaving the uploading of files to the *field modules (having the admin decide which modules he prefers and what type of files he needs) and managing them with the asset wizard. The asset wizard could be taken so much further if it could get all the attention it deserves. One thing I could use help on is the interface from a usability perspective: both on the asset wizard itself and on how to tie it in the different fields (filefield, emfield, ...) and editors (TinyMCE, WYSIWYG, ...). Everything is welcome: from concepts and wireframes to mock-ups and patches.

How do you want to handle the files and embedded media that have been already been imported by media mover, uploaded by filefield or integrated by emfield?

It would be nice to be able to upload a video (and it's corresponding title, description, category, etc.) to a drupal 6 site and have it automatically cross-post the same video and its info to YouTube, iTunes, and others. I have noticed that blip.tv cross-posts to iTunes and others, but not to YouTube. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks.

Made some progress last night with the Drupal Media Player that I blogged about recently. Dynamic logos!

You have to go to my blog to see the action.

This was created with an hour of tweaking the OpenLaszlo XML, and then pasting the following into this node: print theme('media_player_player', 'http://spindowners.com/files.dm/videos/20051210-w50s.flv', array('logo' => '/sites/aaronwinborn.com/files/my-logo.png');

Couldn't be simpler! I see a dev release as soon as we have an icon for the play button!

Of course, playlists and the like will take more. We've talked about including several players, including a light-weight and one with all the bells & whistles, and have the module call the proper one according to passed parameters.

I just posted a sneak-peak of the upcoming Drupal Media Player!

It's still a little rough on the edges, but should be a suitable replacement for JW Flash Media Player and Wimpy when it's done (although the module will handle those as well, if someone just doesn't want the best).

Hi!

I've been looking at the video packages and modules for drupal, there are numerous solution for similar of different purposes: emfield, media field, video CCK, media mover, asset, openpackage video... but I 'm having trouble in finding the best solution for my task, maybe you can help me out. ^^

As announced, we've begun the Media Code Sprint to put better media handling into Drupal core!

It's been a great time so far. In the morning, drewish compiled a file function guessing game (free beer!), and andreiashu took the bait and completed the first round with great feedback about how unusable the current state is.

Next, we've sat down and begun writing SimpleTests for the hook_file patch. This has been great fun for me personally; though drewish is an old hand at building tests, this is completely new for me. And to top it off, webchick, Queen of Drupal testing, dropped by our table and got involved!

Even the process of writing tests has been helpful; we found at least one case for validation that had been missed in the original patch, and drewish decided that file_scan_directory needed refactoring. (He's currently chasing other problems as well, and cursing about finding himself going down rabbit holes.)

There's more fun to be had for all! If you want a quick 15 minute task that everyone is qualified to do, go play the File API Function Guessing Game. If you want to do more, then ping me (aaronwinborn), drewish, or dopry at #drupal in IRC, or leave a comment here!

(Cross-posted at AaronWinborn.com.)

The Media Code Sprint is underway! Here's a cross-post from my blog detailing the goals of this sprint, which runs through Saturday. We need your help!

Andrew Morton (drewish), Darrel O'Pry (dopry, remotely), and I are heading up a Media Code Sprint in Portland this week! Come help, in person or remotely, if you're interested in multimedia and Drupal! It has now officially started, and as I've volunteered to help keep folks updated, here goes...

First the reasons.

Number One: Better Media Handling in Core

Dries conducted a survey prior to his State of Drupal presentation at Boston Drupalcon 2008, and number one on the top ten (or 11) list of what would make THE KILLER DRUPAL 7 Release was "Better media handling".

Let me repeat that. Better media handling.

People have done really amazing stuff in contrib, but it is difficult (if not impossible in many cases) for developers to coordinate the use of files, as there is no good means for file handling in the core of Drupal. Thus, we have several dozen (or more) media modules doing some small part, or even duplicating functionality, sometimes out of necessity.

We need (better) media and file handling in Drupal core. In particular, there has been a patch for a hook_file in the queue for over a year, which has been in the Patch Spotlight (for the second time, no less) since May! (And has been RTBC several times during that process...) Come on folks.

One of the powers of Drupal is its system of hooks. We have hooks to modify nodes, to notify changes to user objects, to alter nearly any data (such as forms and menus). Noticeably absent is a consistent handling for files or any sort of notification. We need hook_file.

So goal Number One: get media handling in core. The means? Add hook_file and make files into a 1st class Drupal object. We'll be creating a test suite for functionality in the hook_file patch to validate it and "grease the wheels" to get it committed.

The other goals of this sprint pale in comparison to the first in utility, but are still highly desirable and worthwhile.

Number Two: Refactor File Functionality in Core

Play the screencast now

Following on the heels of a great thread, I put together a screencast using the CCK Filefield module as a container for video media files and then applying the jQuery Media module to play back those media files in the appropriate player/method. I've been looking for a replacement for the video.module for some time and I wanted to put this recipe under a microscope. Check it out the screenie, feel free to drop me a line if you loved or hated it.

Yesterday I was able to get an initial commit of the YouTube API module I've been working on into the Drupal CVS, as well as get an initial project page up for it. The module is currently functional alpha code, but we're working to flush out the feature set and polish it up for an initial release.

Anyone who's interested in checking it out should grab the module from CVS and see the project page at http://drupal.org/project/youtube_api for a handful of usage examples.

The major new feature of OpenPackage Video 5.x-3.8 is integration with Feed Element Mapper (feedapi_mapper).

The development of this functionality was sponsored by Hudson Street Media using our bounty system:
http://openpackage.biz/bounty/15
http://openpackage.biz/bounty/14

Feed Element Mapper is an add-on module for FeedAPI that maps a feed's elements such as tags or (in this case) videos to taxonomy or CCK fields on your site.

This enables your site to aggregate videos from other sites.

I have set up various video feeds on our site as a demonstration. Click on the 'Feed item' links to view the videos.

I'm looking for the next big thing in the Drupal video scene that is going to finally catch up and replace the video module. We've been using the video module at CCTV for a couple of years but it's too buggy to depend upon any longer. I don't think it even has an official 5.x release and this is leaving its future pretty dim in my book.

Edit 07 August 2008 Edit 07 August 2008 This proposal has been passed along to Knight Foundation for consideration. http://drupal.org/node/292587

Introduction

OpenPackage Media has developed a new collaborative funding technique: Bounty.

Bounty works like this: Participants make a pledge to pay a certain amount of the bounty. Once the bounty has been fully pledged, they are billed for 50%. Once we have completed the bounty task, participants are billed for the balance.

Read the orientation guide for full details.

We have created two bounties for our OpenPackage Video module to start with:

• Video acquisition via url
• Video podcast acquisition via feedapi_mapper

If these go well, there will be many more to follow. Please consider pledging (even a small amount).

Is there any module of videos that support DivX OVS?

Hi.. I am using the video module, I want to disable the automatic playing online on this module. Can you help me? Thanks.

I am currently working on a project for the Las Vegas Drupal Group and I'm in need of some suggestions for video embedding/podcasting modules. I'm curious what modules everyone that's doing vcasting with a Drupal-based site are using... like, is there anything out there module-wise that's like the CCK/Views of the video world?

Microsoft announced this week that they were going to stop purposefully breaking Internet Explorer's activex controls, rolling back the "click to activate" activex message that has been wasting the time and annoying the hell out of web developers for the past two years. According to the MSDN blog that announced the change this change won't require any actions on the part of developers:

It’s important (and cool) to note that this change will require no modifications to existing webpages, and no new actions for developers creating new pages. We are simply reverting to the old behavior. Once Internet Explorer is updated, all pages that currently require “click to activate” will no longer require the control to be activated. They’ll just work.

But, what about all of those people (myself included) who had to use all sorts of hacks and javascript embedding methods to work around this idiotic IE "quirk"? Also, are there any modules that include hacks to remove this error? If so they may need to get updated to reflect the change.

Anyway, at the very least future development that includes video and other embedded media should become a bit less of a pain.

I've explored with some people the idea of creating a "Video bridge" with open source buildign blocks http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge

Probably the best working example of what I would like to do is at http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/

I am right now assessing how to incorporate this into Drupal. Some open questions:

Whether to use Adobe Flash Server, or extend some other open libraries?

Is anyone else already working on this?

What would you like to see?

At DrupalCon in Boston, during my presentation on Media Mover and DruTube, there was someone (forgive me I forgotten your name) that was asking for multiple thumbnail generation from a single video file.

Howdy-

I've been doing some work on Media Mover and part of it has been pulling out the wrapper that I wrote for FFmpeg. While I know that not everybody needs the functionality of Media Mover, most people who are manipulating video (and audio!) do need FFmpeg functionality. So I've created a module FFmpeg Wrapper which provides a basic API for using FFmpeg. File duration, installed codecs and supported formats are accessible.

Moved to official ideas list at http://drupal.org/node/237646

Google announced that they will open up Youtube's API . This means sites can have the ability to upload video transparently. The API is here.

Sites can have a chromeless player (non Youtube branded) too.

During the Drupal Dojo Birds-of-a-Feather meeting at DrupalCon Boston we discussed two seperate items that I believe are interconnected: figuring out how to get more video lessons into the Dojo and doing a better job of attracting more potential teachers and students to the site. To address the first of these issues, I committed myself to doing outreach to individuals and companies who are creating video-based instructional materials to try and get them to submit their work to the Dojo. After that session I started to look around the series of tubes known as the "Internet" and I found quite a few videos. But, what I also noticed was that a good percentage of those videos already are being shared with the Drupal community, but through drupal.org/videocasts rather than the Dojo, which oddly doesn't seem to appear on the videocast pages at all. This brought to mind something that I've heard Josh and others talk about, the idea that we should consider moving the dojo to something more aligned with Drupal.org itself, and I have to say that the more I think about it, the more sense it makes to me.

So, my question is this: does it make sense to consolidate our collective efforts in one location that is better connected with d.o. itself? Something like video.drupal.org, or possibly as a subsection of a tutorials section of the site (which is where the videocasts now sit), which could be called something like tutorials.drupal.org.

This is not a specific Drupal meeting but a FOSS online video meeting more generally, it is hopefully of interest of some drupalites working with video and social/environmental issues.

Transmission Asia-Pacific - Call for Applications
EngageMedia and Ruangrupa would like to announce Transmission Asia-Pacific: a meeting of video activists and free software developers using online video distribution for social justice and media democracy.

Sukabumi, Indonesia, May 19-25, 2008.
http://transmission.cc/txap

During our Drupal Multimedia panel on Monday, Nate Haug (quicksketch) mentioned that soon we will be discontinuing the Image module, and providing a migration for existing Image Nodes to ImageField (or its replacement).

The same thing needs to happen to the Video module. That could happen now. The module that provides a migration path for Video nodes will be king. But they'll also need to tap into the planned hook_file for d7, to keep from being dethroned.

It seems there are quite a few contributed modules that have something to do with videos. For example, here are three, and I know there are more out there:
http://drupal.org/project/flashvideo
http://drupal.org/project/googtube
http://drupal.org/project/video

Does any type of comparison of the many different modules exist out there, perhaps something similar to Comparision of Drupal 5 WYSIYG Editors? I'm just looking for something simple that perhaps lists the various modules in a table with the differences clearly spelled out.

Thanks!

Howdy.

I just wanted to alert people who are interested in doing video/media work on Drupal that I've finally had the time to put together some of the tie-ins that make it possible to create some pretty remarkable video functionality. Using media_mover to do transcoding of uploaded videos, xspf_playlist to build dynamic playlists, and flvmediaplayer to render the player, we can now have a video player which not only plays user uploaded content, but can both recommend content based on a views or play a list of content generated by a view. FLV Media Player will let you take the player and embed it in a page off site if desired. Further, you can use a dynamic configuration file for the player which allows you to alter the appearance and behavior of embedded players already deployed in the field.

Hi All,

Recently I have been informed that video module is going to die out and will not be supported in future versions of Drupal. Can anyone please confirm this? if this is true then what module will be used for Video in Drupal 6.x?

Thanks
Vinay

Alex UA and I have set the date for an official release for Embedded Media Field, for next Friday, February 15. We're going to quash as many of the outstanding bugs as possible before then, and could really use some help from interested people, as far as testing and patching things up.

Once the official version is released for d5, we'll also begin development for the d6 release.

See http://drupal.org/node/213456 for release status.

Hi,

I want to have PDF files associated with each video node. However, when I attach files to Video content types and publish the node, the files do not show up on the node page. I've tried this with other nodes (Story, custom CCK nodes) and the attachments show up fine. In the video content type the attachments don't even appear in the Edit screen.

Anyone know how to fix this? What's going on?

Thanks

I'm creating a video tutorial site and need to play a common videos at the beginning and end of each video tutorial. The start and end videos will always have the same name so I can just change these two videos at will and not have to change every tutorial I've created. I can't figure out how to do this with drupal - I've tried a few modules and the one that comes the closest to what I want is the CoolFilter module but the videos only play by users clicking on a link. I know what I'm looking for is pretty easy to implement using the embed tag with QTNEXT in quicktime.

Last week I installed the OpenPackage Video module, partly because my host doesn't allow ffmpeg installation and partly because I was happy to have the transcoding handled elsewhere. I signed up on their site and bought 10 hours worth of credit from their site. I troubleshot my way past a number of problems till I came up against this one:

http://openpackage.biz/stuck-video-has-been-uploaded-openpackage-biz-tra...

SlideShowPro is a nifty customizable Flash slideshow. There is a Drupal integration now: http://drupal.org/project/slideshowpro. Check out the screencast:

Embedded Media Field now ships with Embedded Media Import, for importing photosets, playlists, and the like. If you install that module, admins will have the ability to import photosets from Flickr as individual nodes. Just make sure the 'Allow import' checkbox on the content type (which must have a field defined with Embedded Media Field) is checked, proper permissions are given to editors, and look at the settings on the new tab at /admin/content/emfield/import.

Hello everyone.

I just added a new slideshow mode to the Views Slideshow module. You can see a demo at Drupal Hub. It uses JQuery and views, so any type of view could be made into a slideshow. The current modes are single frame, as seen in the left sidebar of the demo page, and with 'thumbnails' as shown on the content of that page.

I also revamped the themes for it, making it easier to theme specific elements of the slideshow.

http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/748

We have set up some bounties to help finance the development of OpenPackage Video. Each feature has an amount that must be raised before it will be implemented. We use the ChipIn system to manage donations. If you would like to contribute to the development of one of the features you can donate through its ChipIn widget.

I am looking for a Drupal expert who can create an all-singing-all-dancing online video community for a new client.

The community will consist of the following integrated social networking features:
- Registration
- Blogs with integrated video/podcast/image capabilities
- Tags
- Comments
- Discussion groups/forum
- Full content moderation/user management
- Search
- Polls
- Ratings
- Member profile pages
- Friends (ie user networking)
- Favourited content
- Messages
- Events organiser
- Fully RSS enabled
- Newsletter signup
- Site stats
- Secure Back-end
- SEO friendly

op_video-5.x-2.1 is now available from http://openpackage.biz/.

The main highlight of this release is that it is now backward compatible with mysql 3.23 and php 4.3.3 in line with drupal 5 core and also now works with db table prefixes. If you have had problems before, please give this release a try.

Other changes:
'max duration' transcoding parameter
JW FLV Player must be downloaded separately and decompressed in the op_video directory
other random bug fixes

The Embedded Media Field module now supports custom URL's, in addition to the third party providers currently supported, such as YouTube, Blip.TV, Revver, etc. This allows external videos hosted on another site, or in the local server's file directory, to be embedded in the field. It works in the same way, so that an editor simply pastes the link they wish embedded into the field's textfield, and the module will parse the URL and display it appropriately.

op_video-5.x-2.0.tar.gz is now available from OpenPackage.biz.

Highlights of this release are:

Local FFmpeg transcoding

For videos to be viewed in-browser, they must be transcoded to FLV format. In addition to the existing method of transfering videos to OpenPackage.biz for transcoding, videos can now be transcoded using a local installation of FFmpeg.

There are a number of solutions available to get an FLV video solution where users upload an AVI movie directly within a node, the system converts it to FLV, and then displays it within the node. It seems that the best solutions are: Video, Embedded Media Field, FlashVideo, Media Mover and SWFTools, and OpenPackage. Unfortunately every solution I mentioned here has a few flaws.....

Hi drupal video folks! I want to let everyone know about an ongoing project I've been involved in that I think people here will be interested in, and hopefully if similar efforts are underway we can coordinate :)

FilmForge is a collaborative effort focused on producing an installation profile of Drupal, tailored to the needs of videomaking communities. FilmForge aims to make it as simple as possible to install and run your own video sharing site.

The FilmForge wiki is here: http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge

And the FilmForge demo is here: http://filmforge.koumbit.net.

You'll notice that we still have a ways to go, with some core functionality still not quite working, and a growing list of desired but postponed functionality. Our plan is to get the demo working with all desired core functionality, then use that as the basis for an installation profile and custom theme.

For developers who are interested in helping out, at the moment there is also a running list of To Do items here: http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge/ToDo.

Finally, we were planning on putting together the installation profile here: http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge/DrupalProfile.

Looking forward to working with you all,
schock

The newly released Neighborhood CCK module will take the place of Video CCK, replacing that module and expanding it with Video Neighborhood, Image Neighborhood, and the upcoming Audio Neighborhood.

Apologies for the post across too many groups. Now corrected; won't happen again.

I am posting on behalf of a client with an existing Drupal implementation in a start-up Web business. This client has an imminent need for the following, most likely on a contract basis:

EDIT: Don't use Video CCK, as it's been deprecated. Use Embedded Media Field instead. And for local videos, I suggest the File Field and jQuery Media combo, though there are other solutions as well.

Hello,

I wrote a module derived from the drupal Video module to build a Youtube-like platform.
The site can be seen at http://www.kaouenn.net

Features:
- Creative commons licenses support
- auto transcoding to flash flv (with ffmpeg), with load balancing support (transcoding can be done outside the web server). Video formats supported include mpeg, realmedia, wmv... In fact the ffmpeg supported formats
- support video and audio only

The transcoding part is done with shell scripts updating the drupal DB through the XMLRPC interface.