Video CCK

Looking further, one thing I really like is that you're attempting to be comprehensive and cover all 3rd-party video embedding services, rather than just the youtube service, or just the googlevideo service.

The first link you sent doesn't go anywhere. Is it perhaps the incorrect node nid?

Video CCK only provides support for third party video providers. It's not meant to supplant the Video module's uploaded video file features, but I believe it makes handling third party video much, much easier. Plus, it's a field, so you can add it to other content types. At this point, I am not going to try to make Video CCK the do-everything module (except as noted with 3rd party providers); the Video module is an excellent module for uploaded videos, and I don't want to duplicate the great work that's already gone into that.

Basically, as an editor, when submitting node content, you'll get a text field for your video. You paste the URL or embed code of the video you want to embed in your post, and Video CCK will automagically figure out where the video came from and display it properly.

As an administrator, you have 1) a main setting screen, where you can globally turn off certain providers (for instance if you only want to support YouTube or Revver videos), and 2) when setting up node types, you can further pare down the list for a specific type. Since it's fully integrated with CCK, you have all the features you'd expect, such as multiple videos and the power of Views behind it. For instance, as I currently have set up at Drupal Hub, there's a block that shows thumbnails, with a link to 'more videos' that shows preview size videos, and when clicking on a thumbnail or link to the node, you get a super-sized video that autoplays.

From the developer's stand point, I've tried to make the module easily extendible. Firstly, each provider is set up as an .inc file, and the module only loads them as needed (so it will load only the .inc file needed when displaying a video, and only load the rest of them up on one or two admin screens). Some of the providers (such as YouTube and Blip.TV) require XML calls to the third party API, so the module caches those calls to keep things fast. Finally, everything is built up with documented hooks, to make it easy to add a new provider. (It takes me about 20 minutes to set up a new provider, except when there are tricky API calls or something to figure out. And even the XML calls have hooks to make that easier as well.) About the hardest part is figuring out the proper regex magic to parse out the video code, and yes, there's a hook for that as well (just pass your regex expressions in an array). It's all themeable, too, of course.

Image and radio/audio stuff is out of the scope of this module, but I did earlier create the Flickr CCK module, which inspired some of the ideas for this. So I guess the logical next step would be to take the engine of this module and modify it to work with the other content types.

Hope that answers some of your questions.

Aaron Winborn
Advomatic, Web Design for Progressive Advocacy, Grassroots Movements, and Really Cool Causes

Great resource list! Thanks.

Aaron Winborn
Advomatic, Web Design for Progressive Advocacy, Grassroots Movements, and Really Cool Causes

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