video

I am currently working on a project for the Las Vegas Drupal Group and I'm in need of some suggestions for video embedding/podcasting modules. I'm curious what modules everyone that's doing vcasting with a Drupal-based site are using... like, is there anything out there module-wise that's like the CCK/Views of the video world?

Are you interested in video on the web and looking for a project to hone your skills? Do you want to raise your karma and your profile in the Drupal community?

Every month Roland and I try to live video stream and record the monthly meetings, but we need help! If you're looking for an opportunity to try out video recording, audio recording, or live streaming, let us know. We aren't looking for fancy, and there doesn't have to be a lot of equipment involved. If you have a current generation Macintosh notebook and an Eye Sight camera, you can help! In fact, we need someone to live stream the Thursday March 26th meeting.

We'd also like to explore student sponsorship opportunities. If you know someone in the local video and/or educational community who could help, please introduce us!

How about makin a videdo uploader with a rating system for each video that the user updates.

At DrupalCon in Boston, during my presentation on Media Mover and DruTube, there was someone (forgive me I forgotten your name) that was asking for multiple thumbnail generation from a single video file.

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I've been doing some work on Media Mover and part of it has been pulling out the wrapper that I wrote for FFmpeg. While I know that not everybody needs the functionality of Media Mover, most people who are manipulating video (and audio!) do need FFmpeg functionality. So I've created a module FFmpeg Wrapper which provides a basic API for using FFmpeg. File duration, installed codecs and supported formats are accessible.

Moved to official ideas list at http://drupal.org/node/237646

Google announced that they will open up Youtube's API . This means sites can have the ability to upload video transparently. The API is here.

Sites can have a chromeless player (non Youtube branded) too.

During the Drupal Dojo Birds-of-a-Feather meeting at DrupalCon Boston we discussed two seperate items that I believe are interconnected: figuring out how to get more video lessons into the Dojo and doing a better job of attracting more potential teachers and students to the site. To address the first of these issues, I committed myself to doing outreach to individuals and companies who are creating video-based instructional materials to try and get them to submit their work to the Dojo. After that session I started to look around the series of tubes known as the "Internet" and I found quite a few videos. But, what I also noticed was that a good percentage of those videos already are being shared with the Drupal community, but through drupal.org/videocasts rather than the Dojo, which oddly doesn't seem to appear on the videocast pages at all. This brought to mind something that I've heard Josh and others talk about, the idea that we should consider moving the dojo to something more aligned with Drupal.org itself, and I have to say that the more I think about it, the more sense it makes to me.

So, my question is this: does it make sense to consolidate our collective efforts in one location that is better connected with d.o. itself? Something like video.drupal.org, or possibly as a subsection of a <a href="http://drupal.org/handbook/customization>tutorials section of the site (which is where the videocasts now sit), which could be called something like tutorials.drupal.org.

UPDATE

If you would like to be involved in the encoding of DV content, please post the following information and we will contact you with login information for the content.

I am hoping that we will be getting started on video transfer this week. If that is the case, encoding should be ready to begin sometime end of next week. Please post the following information in this thread:

• Your machine(s) specs - processor/memory/OS
• Your internet connection specs - up and down
• How many hours per week you can devote to encoding
• Do you have the ability to edit DV content prior to encoding - this is primarily to trim beginning and end of video along with boosting gain if needed.

It seems there are quite a few contributed modules that have something to do with videos. For example, here are three, and I know there are more out there:
http://drupal.org/project/flashvideo
http://drupal.org/project/googtube
http://drupal.org/project/video

Does any type of comparison of the many different modules exist out there, perhaps something similar to Comparision of Drupal 5 WYSIYG Editors? I'm just looking for something simple that perhaps lists the various modules in a table with the differences clearly spelled out.

Thanks!

Howdy.

I just wanted to alert people who are interested in doing video/media work on Drupal that I've finally had the time to put together some of the tie-ins that make it possible to create some pretty remarkable video functionality. Using media_mover to do transcoding of uploaded videos, xspf_playlist to build dynamic playlists, and flvmediaplayer to render the player, we can now have a video player which not only plays user uploaded content, but can both recommend content based on a views or play a list of content generated by a view. FLV Media Player will let you take the player and embed it in a page off site if desired. Further, you can use a dynamic configuration file for the player which allows you to alter the appearance and behavior of embedded players already deployed in the field.