Posted by superjacent on August 23, 2008 at 11:22am
Hope someone can help.
If I want to store video files at my site, what underlying programs do I need to ultimately let users watch the videos. Following on from that, how within Drupal would this be achieved.
I'm helping my brother out with this one but in the past for my sites I've always just linked to YouTube and let YouTube handle the process. My brother has a 100 mb video file and the last time I checked that's too big for YouTube.
Steve.
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File Framework and Media Mover
I suggest you take a look at the File Framework. It's new but is a very solid setup as far as managing all kinds of files. Media Mover is another alternative. The both frameworks provide a pretty similar set of functionality but I find that due to the nature of RDF and BitCache integration the File Framework has a brighter future.
I've been told Youtube does
I've been told Youtube does allow you to post files over 100mb if you sign up as a content producer. Part of your question depends on the type of video you want to serve. Flash video, windows media or apple quicktime files. There are modules to serve up flash video, but I don't know if there are for the others. I'd take a look at FirmIdea's suggestion. If you have just 1 file you want to serve then you might just want to throw the embed code into a block or node and be done with it. (Although serving up a 100mb file could be dangerous from your own site if you don't have the bandwidth to serve it up.)
Use Flashvideo Module
Assuming you can get a newer version of ffmpeg installed on your hosting, or can upload files as .flv's, the easiest solution to your problem is the flashvideo module (http://drupal.org/project/flashvideo) It's well documented and simple to use.
flashvideo can use ffmpeg to transcode the videos from any format (assuming ffmpeg has been compiled to support them). If you are using linux check out ffmpeg installer (http://www.ffmpeg.sherin.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14...) which is a script to automate downloading, compiling and installing ffmpeg with all the codecs enabled.
flashvideo also has Amazon S3 integration, but I haven't got this working yet.
Hope this helps.
Video and Drupal
Here is a great drupaltherapy screencast which uses CCK Filefield and jQuery Media modules. I'm still tripping over how to get the player to display (which appears to be a very similar to this issue). Until I can figure out what I did wrong, I'm not much of a spokesman; but I very much like the way this solution approaches the task. Blessings! -NP