I'd be really helpful to have some basic INSTALL.txt file or hand book documenting what needed to be done to install the module.

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drewish commented

Here's something to get people started on the command line:

cd sites/all
mkdir -p libraries
cd libraries
wget http://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/zipball/master
unzip master
mv johndyer-mediaelement-* mediaelement
# I suggest removing all demos after getting burned by getid3 which had exploitable demos.
rm -r master mediaelement/demo/ mediaelement/src/
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drewish commented

I suppose this could use their tarball callback and then pipe it directly from wget to tar...

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mortona2k commented

The colorbox module adds a drush function to download the required library. Would be nice to copy that into this module.

Edit: I see that this is mentioned here: http://drupal.org/node/1129300

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alan d. commented

Note, I had to extract the build subfolder into the mediaelement folder to make the field formatter to work.

See #1617336: Media element is not playing mpg file locally

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mcfilms commented
Version: 7.x-1.x-dev » 7.x-1.2

I really wish this was documented better. It is clear that the jQuery library needs to be placed in the "Libraries" folder. But drewish indicates that the full download johndyer-mediaelement-* should get changed to mediaelement (and possibly remove some demo files).

Meanwhile Alan D. Indicates that the "Build" folder should be taken from johndyer-mediaelement-*, moved to Libraries and named "mediaelement."

They can't both be right.

If I take drewishish's advice I get a black box on all platforms. If I take Alan D's advice I get a player in Safari but a blank space in Firefox.

Is there any up-to-date installation instructions?

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alan d. commented

Sorry, should have reported back - I got both locations being referred to in the end, there may be a bug in an unknown module somewhere

/mediaelement/*.js
/mediaelement/build/*.js

Try duplicating and seeing if both work.

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mcfilms commented

Thanks for reporting back. Did having the js library duplicated enable the player under Firefox? Do you have a link for the live site?

I'm still evaluating which way to go. I've gotten pretty far with the Mediafront module. But MediaElement is not as heavy.

Who would have thought playing MP3s off of a Drupal site could be such a challenge?

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chrisjlee commented

@mcfilms have you tried using jplayer (http://drupal.org/project/jplayer)? It works very well with MP3's. MediaElement seems like something more suitable for videos.

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mcfilms commented

@chrisjlee, I did try the jPlayer module and js. That one worked, playing MP3s even on Firefox. The problem was that the default player didn't look so great and the "circle player" wasn't part of the design. When I looked at skinning the player it looked complicated.

For now I have settled in with Mediafront (http://drupal.org/project/mediafront). So far is it flexible and solid. For example I can create a View list of song titles, each with a player. Or I can have a big list of tunes and one player that switches to whichever song is clicked and will skip from that one to the next when the song finishes.

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organicHack commented

I'm looking at the README.txt file for this module and am definitely wondering what is missing. I've installed it via Drush and followed all the instructions there (libraries module installed, downloaded mediaelement.js and placed in appropriate folder). In the config there is one option "enable site wide" which I have set, but I have nothing to work with after that. I'm browsing the code to see if I can get any clues, but it would be great to see the installation instructions be detailed enough to get you all the way to usage of the module.

Thanks!

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drupaljohngo commented

Haven't used this module for a while. I was under the impression that it is selected as a field as a widget. Go
to content type create a new content type or use an existing like basic page, create a new field and use media element as a widget.

Good luck. Renaming the library maybe an issue as well. I remember having the same issues.

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