The 2006, with the explosions of huge video based community websites such as Youtube, has shown how video contents are becoming one of the most direct and cool to use web communication approach.
Drupal, as a leading open source content management platform, absolutely needs a good and globally accepted video content approach.
This group aims to get ideas and coordinating efforts between the different people involved in the video content development. The goal is to provide drupal with an easy, powerful and extensible support for videos.
Video module 7.x-2.1-alpha2, what you should know?
Original post : http://heididev.com/video-module-7x-2x-what-you-should-know
I released video module 7.x-2.1-alpha2 version on 11th of Sep. This major version completely redesign the video module and its core, I'm the only one worked on this release and seems our co-maintainers (6.x) had no time to contribute code to the 7.x yet. I'm very very happy about the progress of downloading and using video module. It has over 10,500+ usage now.
In this article I'm going to examine some new features added to the video module.
Read moreWhat's new in video module 6.x-4.2-ALPHA2
On Dec 4th I released an enhanced video module build with many new features. Specially now its supporting HTML5 videos on Drupal sites. Not only they we added number of new enhancements to the module to improve the user experience and many other aspects.
Here are the list of new features and would like to get more user inputs to improve the usability of the module.
Read moreVideo design variable considerations
I've recently finished a big video project, hoping to be the next big YouTube. I'm hoping they are too. In the process I encountered a host of different challenges as you do with any new project. I thought I'd share some of the critical success variables back with the community. Hopefully, I'll help you avoid some of the growing pains I suffered through.
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Video Module + Flowplayer - 200 Stream Not Found, NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound...
Hi guys I have installed the Video Module and Flowplayer and have setup ffmpeg and the flv convertion is working correctly. However when I click on the node teaser which is the thumnail created by the ffmpeg then it takes me into full node view and the FlowPlayer would start the video, but this message appears:
200 Stream not found, NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound, clip: '[Clip] 'http://www.localhost.dev:8888/drupalsite/node/sites/default/files/videos/videos/converted/video.flv'
Read moreHow to encode video for mobile use
In video module they have great integration with Zencoder transcoding service, with the number of new features added in to the Zencoder they have recently added mobile profiles for the Zencoder. It would be a good solution for users who are using video module on Drupal with Zencoder. Here is the fill article about
How to encode video for mobile use
adidas and Coty launch video contest for High School kids
adidas and Coty launched the "adidas Moves Pulse" web site on 9/15/2010 to promote the new Moves Pulse fragrance for the teen market.
High School kids create an original short video of their "move" and upload it, then vote for videos. The top 16 videos will proceed to a tournament style bracket and the winner gets $1000 in adidas merch and $15K for the school.
I am the sole developer who built the website with Drupal 6 in 7 weeks, using the Mediafront module and OSM player, and video transcoding with encoding.com
Read moreWhat's new in video module 6.x-4.1-rc6
Today we released the latest video module release video 6.x-4.1-rc6 and we added number of new features to the video module.
First we added several new features to the FFMPEG conversion, now video module is allow your to convert video for progressive download and we changed the module to use latest FFMPEG with fallback to older versions.
Read moreCommercial Video Hosting Solutions
There are video hosting solutions for people who want to "roll their own" and encode/host locally and then solutions for people who need to host commercial videos, and don't want to mess with encoding/bandwidth locally. In these cases an external commercial provider (i.e. not Vimeo) is appropriate. Let's compare solutions.
Brightcove
Also Media: Brightcove Includes a plugin for the Embedded Media Field module.
Read morevideo-6.x-4.0-beta1 Released
6.x-4.0-BETA1 Has now been released. I am releasing this as beta as there have been major changes and additions and I think its stable enough for a beta. We still need help testing this before its implemented in a production environment. This is a rewrite of the 6.x-3.x branch. The major improvements are listed below:
* FTP Video Attach. (Ability to FTP all your videos at once and then attach the videos through a drop-down)
* FLVTool2 integration.
Best Solution for Outsourcing Video Hosting
After spending a day researching and struggling with this topic, I wanted to share my thoughts and spark a discussion.
Read moreDrupal Video module 6.x-4.x-dev Released
We have released our never version of Drupal video module :), but it is still unstable :(. But we welcome all you to test the module and see its extensible features.
Download the dev version and see how fit it is to you :) http://drupal.org/node/779354
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MediaFront.org
Hi Everyone,
New to this group, didn't even know there was a video group. I can't wait to join and be apart of this group since I deal with video and Drupal almost everyday.
So, I would like to introduce myself, and also the http://mediafront.org/ project.
Read moreVideo Module - What's Next?
Hi all,
We are developing never version of Drupal video module which is far more good than the last release, since we are using filefield and CCK we all know video module is very famous now. Since it is supporting views, imagecache, ffmpeg_wrapper modules its exposing more valuable features to the community.
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