Video

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?

Posted by hypertext200 on September 14, 2011 at 4:30am

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.

Posted by hypertext200 on December 4, 2010 at 11:41am

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.

Posted by rmjackson on January 21, 2011 at 4:48pm

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.

Media DX Summit 2010

Posted by aaron on April 24, 2010 at 3:02pm

MDX 2010 FTW!

With a Drupal Beta planned for May 21, the time is coming for a Media Beta as well! Before we can do that, however, there are a few loose ends to tie up. I've identified two critical pieces for a happy Developer's eXperience (DX) before I'll be happy doing that. There are certainly more: see the Media issue queue for more.

MetaData Handling

The Media module creates Media entity objects, which are fieldable. That means we can already attach any fields or taxonomy to any media object, which goes a long way towards handling metadata. However, Media metadata needs are variable and complex. For instance, a field might be fine for adding a taxonomy vocabulary for Video genre or Bird species, but you would need something better if you want to automatically add video duration, YouTube categories, or grab a music file's getID3 data. Basically, we need a larger discussion of what's necessary, what's possible, and how we get there. See this Media metadata issue for more background.

Display Formatting

Currently, we're using the Styles module to power display formatting. We may or may not continue using that. In any case, we'll need to ensure the formatters more closely follow Media Types, and we'll need to offer a pluggable UI for changing formatter style presets, similar to Image Styles (Imagecache in core, for those not yet familiar).

Media DX Summit 2010?

I'd love to lock up some fellow developers for a couple of days in a room to bang on these ideas. At the same time, my partner Gwen is due on May 22 for our second child, so firstly, I can't really travel any time in the foreseeable future, and secondly, even if we had a summit here in Harrisburg, it would either have to be like this week, or in mid-summer. Considering the deadlines involved for this, we need to get cranking. Thus, the summit I would love to see happen will probably either have to happen remotely, or perhaps without my involvement. :(

Anything Else?

Are there any other issues you would suggest to be critical beta-blockers? Do you have any thoughts to add to the issues I've suggested? Please add to this thread!

Thanks,
Aaron Winborn

(Cross-posted at AaronWinborn.com.)

Video fallback if no flash player present- iphone/ipad devices ?

Posted by ThaboGoodDogs on April 11, 2010 at 3:11am

I have successfully created a nice little content carousel that let's me add youtube video as well as upload H.264 video stored locally on our server along with nice thumbnails - ( thanks Stuart Greenfield + SWFtools 6.x-3.0-beta3) for pointing me in the right direction and for the new thumbnails function.

See the front page of http://clouds.colorado.edu for the video carousel.

Brief article comparing four options for hosting video in Drupal webites

Posted by chris stines on March 13, 2010 at 12:41am

Colleagues,

Justin Emond of Urban Insight has published a brief review of four possible options for hosting video in Drupal websites, from self-hosting to enterprise-level integration and delivery. For those of you who are considering how best to integrate video, this article includes a compact comparison matrix of features across the different options.

Video Hosting and Integration in Drupal
http://www.urbaninsight.com/articles/drupal-video.html

-- Chris

Update Video Module graphic to include ogg?

Posted by schock on March 4, 2010 at 5:46am

Just a suggestion :)

Video Module 6.x-3.6 with ffmpeg_wrapper and imagecache

Posted by hypertext200 on February 16, 2010 at 2:12am

Hi,

This should be a great news for all who are using Video module, yesterday I released a new version of video module which has several new features and bug fixes.
1. Now video module is using ffmpeg_wrapper module API's to convert / thumbnail videos.
2. All video thumbnails are now expose to views and you can use imagecache presets too.
3. No video_render.php file and now easy to setup cron jobs on video_scheduler.php
and many known issues resolved....

Download the latest Video Module 6.x-3.6

Transmission Drupal Distribution proposal to Knight News Challenge

Posted by schock on February 2, 2010 at 6:13pm

Hi all, the Transmission network (http://transmission.cc) has just completed a full proposal to the Knight News Challenge, for a video-focused 'Transmission Drupal Distribution': http://tinyurl.com/txknightdrupal. If we get the $, we will do an open consultation process with Transmission network partners and the Drupal community to determine the modules we will fund development of. Please check out the proposal, rate it up, and if you think you would use this distribution, leave a comment to let Knight know it would be useful! Thanks.

Video 'lending' legality

Posted by danepowell on January 27, 2010 at 3:23am

Hi all- I have something of a legal question. I run a Drupal-based site for a non-profit outdoors organization, and would like to maintain a library of outdoor-related videos (mostly mainstream, i.e. copyrighted by someone else). I'm pretty sure there wouldn't be anything illegal about simply lending DVDs to members as long as no money changes hands. If that's the case, I don't see any reason why allowing members to stream the same videos off of a media server would be illegal, as long as we restrict it such that only one person can stream a video at a time.

Forthcoming Media Alpha!

Posted by aaron on January 22, 2010 at 4:18pm

So we're this close to an alpha for the Media module (for d7). There are only a few outstanding critical alpha-blocking issues that need to be resolved. I'd hoped to have it today, but it looks like it'll probably be Monday.

Next week is the time for you to jump in if you're interested in developing for the project! It's been loads of fun, from the initial discussions and plans over a year ago with arthurf, dopry, drewish, Roger López, myself and others, to fantastic core Drupal 7 integration of stream wrappers by pwolanin and GSOC student jmstacey, to some powerhouse #d7ux magic by mverbaar and Jody Lynn, to the latest overhaul introducing Media fieldable entities (with an eye for core Drupal 8) and WYSIWYG integration by JacobSingh and dipen chaudhary, with some potential upcoming fine-tuning from jQuery guru dmitrig01.

If you're interested, join us in IRC at #drupal-media. After giving the module a spin (you'll need Drupal 7 Alpha 1, Media, Styles, and WYSIWYG + CKEditor, and optionally Media: Flickr and/or Media: YouTube), you should subscribe to the Issue queue. (You can also see recent screenshots at AaronWinborn.com.)

Best practice for user-generated video sharing site?

Posted by aiwata55 on January 17, 2010 at 3:01pm

Hi all,

I am building a user-generated video sharing site for my client. He wants users with appropriate role can submit their videos to the site and share it. A problem is, for some reasons unknown to me, he wants to use FTP instead of FileField upload functionality to submit a video. Then he wants to get these files hosted by a CDN provider and embed in a node a video file which is retrieved from a CDN provider. A video can last 1 hour or longer sometimes.

Drupal Media, Now with Fieldable Entities!

Posted by aaron on January 8, 2010 at 7:28pm

If you haven't looked recently, there's been some huge progress recently for Drupal's Media module. Jacob Singh from Acquia has jumped on board, paving the way for fieldable entities! This allows Media asset objects to be a first class Drupal citizen, alongside Nodes, Users, Taxonomy, and Comments. (Hopefully in core for Drupal 8!) Also, Dipen Chaudhary has been hard at work providing WYSIWYG support!