Posted by hypertext200 on November 10, 2009 at 5:50am
Finally, I could involve myself to videoField module development from few days back. Now I'm planing to start some solid development on videoField.
Currently we only have one video type(flv) is supported by videoField and I added many video types like did in video module. See the HEAD for the latest.
We would like to hear some expert voices here before we go for the next release of the videoField. Where we should go and what are the video features we can support?.
My main intention is support real video experience to the Drupal users with the videoField.
Try module : http://drupal.org/project/videofield
Cheers
-Heshan
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Media + VideoField!
Great work! We want you to join us w/ the Media effort, of course. You're half way there already, since your work builds off FileField.
Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (my book, available now!)
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Thanks aaron, I added readmap
Thanks aaron, I added readmap on VideoField module page, hope that will useful to users to get to know about whats next. Any new ideas are welcome
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heshan, it's good to see this
heshan,
it's good to see this module and it might be as important as Imagefield. but what i see is, it will be better if you could make it more flexible in terms of dependencies especially on players.
1) at the moment, Videofield depends on Flowplayer, this will be a setback for users who already owns the license for other players like JWPlayer. and how if i want to use the good SWFTools?
2) for it to work with ffmpeg_wrapper.module so that future ffmpeg support (e.g. metadata) will go there instead.
@sadist, Thanks for your
@sadist, Thanks for your comments, yeah at the moment only FlowPlayer is support to play videos, we hope to support oother Flash player in near future (may be with next release of the video). What you thing about direct embedded videos, like in quick time, the quality will be high but will not for cross platform support? is it good or we just keep it as optional feature?
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Formaters not fields
One of the models that we (the media module folks) are really trying to push is separating storage from formatting. In this instance, video is not storage but formating- we should be able to provide options for the long tail player or the flow player or whatever- these should not be dependent on the field, but the file type....
http://24b6.net
I like the sound of that
Is there a discussion page or similar for this idea... this is something I've always felt could be improved in the current state of affairs and I would be keen to find out more about it.
option is always good. not
option is always good. not all sites that needs to play video would want their movie to be played with flash. some corporate sites may require high quality .mov and won't compromise any other format. i also think that videofield should be as for general video purposes as possible.. just like the imagefield for images. at least, that's what i think when i first heard the name.
maybe you could remove the player dependencies? then recommend users to use modules like swftools (http://drupal.org/project/swftools)
it's just my two cents. ;D
oki, I'm, looking forward to
oki, I'm, looking forward to contribute something important, may be videoField will helpful to many!! Thanks for your comments.
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