Video

Hi Guys,

Can anyone recommend me a good chat solution for Drupal 6. I am trying to evaluate different solutions like DimDim, 123FlashChat Server, avchat(avchat.com)..

Has anyone used any of these solutions.. Will U recommend any?

I will be using this for a Learning Management solution. I would like to host online presentations, do whiteboarding, have the ability to control the time the chat sessions are on; All chat sessions will need to be stored and indexed for later retrieval. I will be using the apache solr module. That part seems to work fine.

Does anyone know if there is an easy way to pull the comments left for youtube videos onto your Drupal site? Ideally they would automatically be integrated into the comments section on a page where you have a YouTube video embedded. I know its possible, but would probably take a bit of work... Thanks!

Hi there,

I'm a Melbourne-based programmer visiting LA until Sunday, working to migrate a non-profit student media & training site to a new Drupal back-end and building in a lot of video stuff. It's my first Drupal site and on a tiny budget. I'll buy someone lunch or dinner if they offer some help on the basics :-) I've got Drupal installed, themed, and a bunch of modules enabled, but I really want to finesse my solution.

Contact me at dan(AT)gravityrail.com.

Thanks,
Dan

For over a year LA Drupal has been recording our meetings and many of our events. View the videos online... http://drupal-la.blip.tv

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We provide these videos for free for people to learn Drupal of course. Over the next handful of weeks you will see us release videos from our meetings and DrupalCampLA '08. Learn the basics of Drupal, theme design, module development, advanced views, Services module (Flash + Drupal), and many, many more topics all relating to Drupal.

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Hi Mobile folks

As a result of Transmission network sprint few weeks ago on a farm among beautiful Britain hills we have published a tutorial on Posting video from mobile phones into drupal via email into flash video via Mailhandler and Media mover.

Its still considered Incomplete, as my English is not perfect. Please review, correct and expand, so it will be complete.

Hi all,

Im hoping this is an easy one, but as Im a novice at the video game, I could use some help.

Simply put, can I embed YouTube videos marked as "Private" onto my Drupal site?

A little background: the site is used for by a professor who wishes to sell access to his lectures. I have Ubercart w/ node access running nicely, and the videos are uploaded to YouTube, but obviously, if he is charging a fee for access, we don't want people to simply be able to view them for free on YouTube.

Join us at the two day Google Summer of Code - Media Shiai/Sprint (Media Ninja Tournament) in Cambridge / Boston (at the Brightcove headquarters) Denver (during DrupalCamp Colorado (and the following Monday at Denver Open Media! Our goal is a Media module Alpha release!

The following are ongoing and/or proposed projects pertaining to Drupal media. Many of these have shared needs for features, documentation, and qualified talent to do the much needed work.

Drupal products

A few days ago I found a video-tutorial on how to make a Flash video player on the site, which would be rotated on the back and showed the description of the video file.
Here is a link to the video: http://gotoandlearn.com/play?id=91
Now I am engaged in the creation of the module, which would work with the database, create xml files for video players and on the other side, it would be not a description page, i wonna to make a voting side.
If someone interesting, then write in the comments. Waiting for tips and questions. Sorry 4 bad english

I have created a new site called Planet Drupal TV that aggregates Drupal video feeds in a manner similar to how Planet Drupal aggregates Drupal blog posts. Videos can be viewed in-browser or downloaded. There is a "most popular" section that utilizes the fantastic Radioactivity module.

It utilizes my Blue Droplet Video module and its Feed API integration.

I've added all the Drupal video feeds I could find, although it does not work with YouTube feeds as they do not use the enclosure tag. Miro can acquire video from YouTube, so it should be possible in future. Really, blip.tv is much better than YouTube, or you could use Blue Droplet which outputs the source video in the enclosure tag.

The team from Civic Pixel / Deproduction / Denver Open Media will be in the Sacramento area the May 25-27th. We're going to be there to implement the Open Media System at Davis Access Media, but we'd love to do a song and dance for the SacDUG'ers while we're there if that's possible. We going to be presenting at the Open Video Conference June 18-19.

Make sure to attend the Media Sprint Update Panel and join the Media Sprint 2009 at Open Media Camp in Denver, on April 18-19!

The presenters of this panel, including Aaron Winborn (aaron), Arthur Foelsche (arthurf), and Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg (Alex UA), will discuss the ongoing efforts of the Media Sprint by the Drupal Media working group to bring to fruition the Media module and related work.

This panel will begin with a demonstration and discussion of the current state of the ongoing development of the Media module, and a thorough examination of the concept for its extensible API. Finally, we'll discuss the near and far-term plans, including the Media Sprint planned for the next day of the Open Media Camp.

This will be a progress report for the ongoing Media Sprint, for the Media Module, including How You Can Get Involved™!

Note this immediately follows 8Tracks & Emfield.

Where
We're using Dojo's Dimdim - click this link at the time of the session.

When: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM (EST)

The following modules integrate third party video with Drupal, such as YouTube or Blip.TV. Modules included may automatically parse URLs and/or embed code to determine the provider to store and display, and may or may not display thumbnails, autoplay, and other features (outlined below). Please help to make this list more accurate!

Looking to hire at video expert to make me a complete video solution for payment based site.

Please email me allan (AT) freke.com

I have a request for a UI element if someone wants to make or find a GPL compliant icon set for the Media module. Here's the issue.

We need to have a spinner "progress" indicator (which should just be something that spins, as it's not true percentage complete, just a spinner telling us the upload is in progress). Then a checkbox or something to display when the upload is complete. Something similar to how YouTube does it. (I can attach screenshots of that if someone needs.)

Thanks,
Aaron

i create a views using "FlashVideo: Video" as a field ,
but the result is confusing me , a video with three same thumbnails!!
i check the "sites\default\files" directory , but there is only one thumbnail associate with a video.

and i successed to install "project/dashplayer" , but the "dashplayer.swf" is always to have its logo "dashplayer" on the left bottom which is not pleased me.
i just want to have a similar playlist function as "dashplayer module"

so how to create a thumbnail playlist using views?

In this installment of Media Ninja class, we will learn how to create a provider file for Embedded Media Field. We'll use Hulu.com as our example provider.

Learning Goals

• Overview of Embedded Media Field
• Creating a custom Module for Drupal
• Drupal's system of module hooks
• Creating basic regex patterns

Where

Contents

• What is the Media module?
• What is a stream?
• What is a wrapper?
• What is a PHP Stream?
• What is the Media project?
• Where can I find the Media project?
• Why do we need the Media project?
• Will the Media module support displaying multimedia files?
• What modules will support Media module?
• Who is working on the Media module?
• When can I use the Media module?
• What can I do to help?
• Is the Media module going to be in core?
• What functionality will the Media module support out of the box?

Anyone interested in creating a logo for the new Media group? Maybe Druplicon with a painter's smock and brush? Or a multi-color pixellated Druplicon? Or a video/image/music note montage swirling around Druplicon? Or ... ?

The following is the current list of Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions on the white boards near the registration tables at Drupalcon DC that relate to Media. The list will certainly change over the week. Sessions relating to Media have been tagged on delicious. Please feel free to add those missing sessions! (This page is a wiki).

I'm quite interested in building a Drupal site that could aggregate video from a channel on a given 3rd party site such as youtube, vimeo, blip.tv, etc. and display it on the site. I'm sure that there is a module to do this. My difficulty, however, lies with the fact that the site and all content on the site will be password-protected, and this includes any videos on it.

FYI, I'm planning to do a Dojo session (using DimDim) sometime hopefully early this week around Embedded Media Field, with the following goals:

There are loads of Drupal video developers coming to DrupalCon DC!

I've made a list of the various video-related sessions and BoFs:

Sessions

http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/future-files-and-media-drupal-7 - drewish
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-cdn-integration-easier-more-f... - Wim Leers
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/flash-and-drupal - travist
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-multimedia - aaronwinborn
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/media-mover-file-processing-and-stor... - arthur

BoFs

http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/node/2354 Build YouTube in Drupal! - aaronwinborn
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/node/1536 Media Mover for Rich Media Mangement - arthur
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/node/4344 <= this is my one (OpenPackage Video - now for D6 and Amazon S3!)

I'll be attending as many of them as I can.

Really looking forward to meeting up with everyone!

Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/openpackage to coordinate during the week.

UPDATE: Open Media Camp planning, session proposals, conversations, rsvp, etc have all been moved to the new camp site at: http://www.openmediacamp.org

The Media Sprint 2009 Wiki has a rough outline, based on an earlier document started by arthurf, but needs some serious fleshing out. I plan to begin working in earnest again on the sprint later next week and the following (am trying to slot 3-4 solid working days towards it).

There are also several volunteers who have offered to help over the coming weeks as well. We need to try to build some organization.

I've been using FlashField with SWF Tools, and I've also tried FlashVideo...and Embedded Media Field. Now, what I really need, is to be able to stream from a RTMP server by giving the URL in a CCK field (rmtp://example.com/myvideo.flv) and to use a flashplayer like JW to display it. Seems easy, but I don't think there's a solution out there at the moment for Drupal.

Any thoughts?

I needed to embed video (FLV) and audio (MP3s) on a site, but didn't want to use an all-in-one solution like FlashVideo, and wanted something simple without requiring a number of different modules, so the Flowplayer module was born. It's a stripped down API to allow the use of the GPL licensed Flowplayer for embedded flash video playback.

Drupal is a powerful tool for building amazingly scalable websites quickly and simply. The use of multimedia in Drupal has posed challenges to many users and developers of all abilities. Drupal Multimedia addresses the main questions regarding how to implement video, image, and audio content in a way that is elegant for the developer, as well as the end user. The language of the book is straight to the point, and provides a framework to practice building an assortment of multimedia sites using a variety of modules in the context of test or example sites.

An ongoing series of lessons, sessions, and workshops on Drupal media and arts.

Goals and Objectives

• Showcase how producers and media organizations are leveraging Drupal.
• Bridge the gap between the geek world and the real world (who mostly don't know the world beyond MySpace).
• Demonstrate how artists can leverage new technologies and reach an audience without having to compromise their art.
• Gain a more comprehensive understanding of the modules available and the ways they are being used
• See how producers and media organizations are leveraging Drupal.

Media Code Sprint and Media Module Specifications

Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. Road map and Time Line
3. Use Cases
4. API Description
5. $item structure
6. Wireframes
7. Deliverables
8. Timeline
9. Risks
10. Resources

Introduction

OpenPackage Video 5.x-3.15 has been released.

The major new feature of this release is MP4 encoding with H.264 video and AAC audio. These codecs have much higher performance than than the old FLV and MP3. This means you can have the same quality for less bandwidth or higher quality for the same bandwidth.

Demo

MP4 encoding is supported both with FFmpeg transcoding on your own server and with the paid transcoding service we offer at openpackage.biz .

This functionality was sponsored by SharkScopers and vertikal.dk .

I'm excited to update you that today we have officially launched our open source video module for Drupal.
Kaltura's All in One Video Module enables Drupal site-builders to easily add video and rich-media functionalities to their sites.

The module handles all aspects of adding video, including full hosting and streaming of content. It is extremely flexible, easy to customize and best of all – it's free – Kaltura covers up to 10GB of hosting and streaming (can later be upgraded).

Hi

I've to write a Module for that I need Video-Support.
I don't want to have a Monster-Module which can give me all things FFMPEG & Co can do...
I'm looking for a solution that is as most functionally & economic as possible.

Espacially I need:

• Converting any Format to FLV
• Resizing and that kind of things
• Watermarking
• MAY BE some DRM Capabilities

The Module should make it possible to me to give a Temp-File-Handler an some params to it and after I receive either a File-Handler of the overworked File or may be a whole Drupal-File-Object!

OpenPackage Media has just released a new module called OpenPackage YouTube syndication.

This module allows video that is published using OpenPackage Video to be automatically syndicated to the YouTube 'branded garden'.

YouTube is termed a 'branded garden' because it is not possible to view YouTube content without being exposed to the YouTube brand. The term is derived from 'walled garden'.

I just put together a little screencast on some of the newer functionality that FFmpeg Wrapper is sporting. FFmpeg Wraper acts as a wrapper around FFmpeg and provides a basic API and GUI for interfacing with the command line. Now it also provides a format conversion tester that allows you to take a file that has been uploaded to a Drupal node, try out multiple transcoding settings, and attach the new file back to the node.

WorkHabit just launched a preview of our new video platform for Drupal. We're looking for developers to try it out and provide us some feedback.

From the blog post...

Fully funded start-up company is in the process of soliciting resumes for a Senior Drupal Developer. The company will be web-based and lean heavily towards video related technology. Company desires a Developer with extensive experience in Drupal, video technology, and custom programming. Chosen Developer and/or Project Manager will be responsible for complete website development and build. Please submit resumes and portfolio of prior related work.

Process:

1. We will accept the above requested information from interested parties over a 10-day period.

Objective

Looking to identify the best web based solution (Drupal or third party) that would allow a content creator to upload and distribute media (video, audio, photos, ...for starters) to external sites and services.

Features

These would vary depending on the specific needs. Could be a combo of Drupal modules, third-party solutions or both.

Upload/ingestion

• Web based service that can embed on any web page

(Note: I have moved the contents of this node to a sub-page of the http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core section: http://drupal.org/node/361854 - webchick)

So had a brainstorm, and I'll volunteer to get this rolling, as I'm working on both modules.

As the chatroom api is developed, I'd like to tap into it for the Drupal Media Player. That would open up live chats in the player, ala ustream, but tied to the Drupal user db.

Just putting that out there. This is brainstorm fodder for the future, and I probably won't have time to work on that idea (which will be after both are mature) until later this winter.

Our video channel (provided by Blip.tv) allows us to broadcast our videos in a feed for you, iTunes, Yahoo, and Adobe's Media Player. I've spent some time massaging these settings and we're now live on iTunes under the Podcast section. Subscribe or just feel free to download videos there.

The first videos that are listed are our May 2008 recordings of Scott Nelson covering the Services module and AMFPHP module (four parts).

Currently, Embedded Media Field has Embedded Thumbnail, which allows editors to override the thumbnails provided by third party providers. I originally just copied some code from Image Field to handle it, after toying with (and rejecting) the idea of creating some sort of generic image handling api to help modules needing the functionality.

Hi, I'm looking to add some admin-supplied video and can not get it to playback smoothly. I don't know much at all about video, so please excuse my awkward terminology and foolish assumptions.

The Drupal:
• 6.4
• JW FLV Media Player 4.1
• Via Filefield + jQuery

The Media:
• High-quality DVD Video
• Half a dozen vids + a dozen audio tracks
• Length is about 4 minutes each

The Encoding:

Aaron Winborn and I are leading a "sprint" at DrupalCampNYC to get to a full release of the Embedded Media Field Module for Drupal 6. The following is a list of all of the remaining issues preventing a full 1.0 release of emfield for Drupal 6 and a roadmap that we're going to try to follow over the next day or so to . Feel free to add to or modify it if you see anything missing or inaccurate. Although I may add specific issues from the emfield issue queue to this list, please do not add new issues to this list (instead, please use the emfield issue queue).

Hi, I'm trying to embed some admin-supplied videos into a 6.4 install. I found a very elegant solution on drupaltherapy.com using Filefield + jQuery Media. I somehow screwed up the configuration and for the life of me, can't parse out what I did wrong. It seems some other folks are struggling also; an issue cue has been started here. If anybody more knowledgeable than I has a moment to check out my issue, I'd certainly be very appreciative.

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?