I'm confused about how I can pick what format to use with this module. I have added a video field to my content type, configured zencoder and amazon s3 and uploaded a mp4 video. I have it configured to convert it to the various html5 formats as well as flash. When I upload a video to the node, it indeed sends it off to zencoder and then copies the original and all formats to s3. So far so good.

What I have no clue about is how I actually use my transcoded versions... By default, under the content type display options for my content type, the display is set to Video. With this setting, when I view the node it loads up the mp4 version in quicktime. Not so good. If I set the display type to SWF Tools, then it loads up the flash version in the selected flash player. I see no way to display it as the html5 type however. This is probably something simple but I can't see how to do this anywhere... Really what I want to do is default to html5 and fallback to flash if that fails but I don't see anything about this in the docs nor am I entirely sure how to do this (short of creating a custom template for my node type and trying to figure it out there, however I have numerous node types that support videos so that's not exactly ideal).

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bcobin’s picture

bcobin commented

See the following thread for information here, particularly comment #54 - http://drupal.org/node/987236.

Bad news is that there's currently no solution for this that I'm aware of, although folks seem to be trying. I'm hoping that someone will figure out how to get JW Player 5.4 to work (which theoretically supports HTML5 with Flash fallback) or changes will be made in the HTML5 player in Video incorporating patches to the jsVideo module (which is distinct from the HTML5 player in Video.)

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Jorrit commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

I think this issue is no longer valid.