By mcsolas on

I have been trying for days to figure out a way to get some videos playing off my drupal 7 site. The media module isn't yet ready. I tried mediafront, I managed to load the player, and it saw my two videos but they were blank. Looking into mediaelement, but not sure exactly how to make the player display on the page.

If anyone has figured out how to post video to a drupal 7 site ( without embedding it from an external service such as youtube ) .. please post!

Which media type is the best to use?
Do I need to pre-convert all my videos to the same format before uploading if I want to host them myself?

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alltooeasy commented

http://drupal.org/node/1062086

The HD FLV player has been released.

We're leaning towards using VIMEO premium and embedding HD from there. For a variety of reasons.

The FLV player and many of its kind, are easily enough installed.

Here's some upcoming stuff. Currently the Media isn't quite as plug and play as it sounds you'd like.

http://drupal.org/project/mediafront Looks good. Check out the mini site. http://www.mediafront.org/
http://www.mediafront.org/drupalconsf - Video on setup from Drupal Con Chicago.

http://drupal.org/project/video HTML 5 ready.

But your basic issues here is its still early. Most of these are late BETA, early stable builds or RC. Which is not to say that they won't work (or aren't awesome), but it should raise the "I'm going to need to update and support this, rather than a hit and run configuration" flag in your planning.

We're heading towards VIMEO premium. Which takes the hassle out of it all and when presented to a client, they chose to pay Vimeo for configuration and Private Video rather than us for Custom created Players.

Hope that helps.