By arcticflea on

Does anyone know if there is a .mp4 or .mov plugin for the flexinode module? It'd be very cool to have quicktime vids.

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Uwe Hermann’s picture

Uwe Hermann commented

Please file and issue for this (in the flexinode project)...

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harald.walker’s picture

harald.walker commented

As far as I understand flexinode, you can create it yourself? Only if you want some automatic stuff (like movie dimensions, thumbnail creation, etc.) someone would have to develop something new.
I also want to use Quicktime movies on my sites. Probably this weekend, I will see what can be done with flexinode.

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gkrishna commented

i was looking for the stuff too. I came to know even mime_registry module has the facility of doing the same. *_node.inc mime type for doing the same. I havent tried yet.. http://drupal.org/node/10477
(* may be image, filestore2, story etc.,)

well i had little luck with flexinode in playing mp3 files posted here,
http://drupal.org/node/11485

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javanaut commented

The mime_registry module has plugins/handlers that take an array containing content (content varies with what types of node are being created) and programatically create a node using either filename extention (for file types) or content-type. The node module exists separately from the mime_create module. Ideally, in the future, the maintainers of the supported node types (image, filestore2, etc) would take over the control of the *_mime_create hooks and there wouldn't be a need for the *.inc files anymore.

On the subject of video handling, what research I've done pointed me to the MEncoder project which is a utility that ships with the MPlayer video player application. I have too much going on at the moment to do much work on this, but I want to eventually do video format conversions automatically. My mobile phone creates 3GPP format video, which I would like to host on my Drupal site as mpeg4 or avi video, along with thumbnails and such.

I think that MEncoder runs on Unix/Linux and MS environments, and if all you want is a thumbnail, it is capable of providing that. If hosting the native video format along with a thumbnail and maybe a default theme for playing it inline is all you want, then flexinode is probably a good solution with MEncoder.

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harald.walker commented

please have a look at
http://drupal.org/node/11193

Quicktime support is coming. Weekend is over now and I still have to solve some problems.

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gkrishna commented

thanks for the link. I tried your mov inlcude file.

When i tried to upload a .mov file, i get an error,

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_OLD_FUNCTION' or `T_FUNCTION' or `T_VAR' or `'}'' in /modules/flexinode/getid3/getid3.php on line 30

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: getid3 in /modules/flexinode/field_mov.inc on line 93

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harald.walker commented

is getid3 installed and does it work with with the mp3 type?

gkrishna’s picture

gkrishna commented

getid3 version getid3-2.0.0alpha.zip

May i know your version of getid3.

for installing getid3, i followed the instruction from here,
http://drupal.org/node/10814

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harald.walker commented

as available on:
http://getid3.sourceforge.net/#download

The getid3 php files should be in the directory getid3 within the flexinode folder.

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gkrishna commented

I have added only the following (.php) files to getid3 folder under flexinode,

module.audio.mp3
getid3
getid3.lib
module.tag.id3v1
module.tag.id3v2
module.tag.lyrics3
module.tag.apetag
module.audio.mod
module.audio-video.quicktime
module.audio-video.mpeg

The mov is working well. I observed that
Title of the album is displayed,
the creation date is not displayed

the file starts playing as soon as the webpage is loaded.
as soon as movie gets complete, there is a black patch left in the window (ie., no controller available here)

There is also a link to a filename, which takes to a new page and the movie is played inside the controller window.

Let me know if your testing results are same.

thanks

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harald.walker commented

Title and creation date are now hardcoded in the output. Creation date is a field in your quicktime movie just like title, copyright etc.
The display of these fields should be optional in the final version.

Don't know about the black patch. Are you using Windows?
Depending on the controle selection, 16 pixel must be added to the height. This isn't happening yet.

The link to the filename is something like a download link (visitors can use it with the save-as function of their browser). I guess this should also be optional.

What you have been looking at was my first version. Am glad it does what it should be doing. Now there is still a lot to fix and adjust. I added some comments on http://drupal.org/node/11193

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gkrishna commented

Using win2k and mozilla firefox browser.

As soon as page is loaded the movie starts playing (happens everytime when you visit the page). Say if the file is promoted to homepage, on every visit of homepage the file starts playing automatically, would like to know if it can happen on users file selection.

Otherwise its a good functionality for flexinode.

is it possible to have a look at demo (link to your website etc)?

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harald.walker commented

There is the autoplay checkbox. I implemented it just before I posted my message and haven't had time to test it yet. Like I wrote before, there is still a lot that has to happen to the quicktime field before I can be used. I also have to learn a lot about Drupal and the flexinode module and would be happy about any kind of technical support.

I would not promote a movie to the homepage. In my Quicktime movie content type I am using an image field as well, where I place a preview image and this is shown in the teaser with the description. For the visitor of your site it should be obvious, that they are going to see a quicktime movie, together with a download link for the plug-in.

I do not have a drupal website online yet. The QT support is one of those elements which I need before I can migrate my websites to Drupal.

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raveoli commented

I get this:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: drupal_specialchars() in /usr/home/olipower/public_html/modules/flexinode/contrib/field_mov.inc on line 167

Have of course looked at the code around line 167 - and it says:

$result .= '
filepath) .'">'. drupal_specialchars($file->filename) .'
('. format_size($file->filesize) .')';

I understand some of it - but can't figure it out - any help would be so nice;-)

I'm using Drupal 4.6.4

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raveoli commented

For the record I made it work by simply doing something nasty.

I deleted the reference to drupalchars - which the script could not find. Then it worked. Nasty but it works;-)