Hi

I am using mediafront and media at the moment and everything seems to be working fine regards embedding external media like youtube and uploading small video, music and pdf files to my local wamp server.

But is it possible to use this module or another module to "embed" media without uploading files through drupal so that I can manage my local hard drive media files using drupals content management functionality. i.e. I want to play/view/organise and add notes etc to media already sorted on my computer via drupal running locally on wamp. I only need read-only access to the non-executable files so this should not pose any security issues.

Any ideas on how I can achieve this functionality with this module or another?

The description seemed to indicated it could but it it seems that it is something to do with the file:// stream wrapper not being supported?

Please help!
Thanks

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devin carlson’s picture

devin carlson commented

Marked #1772142: Is it possible to embed local hard drive media without uploading through drupal? as a duplicate.

I'd advise against using file:// as it poses some well-known security risks. Most major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) do not enable the links at all.

that0n3guy’s picture

that0n3guy commented

@Devin, Thats true but for company intranet sites (drupal site not facing the internet and only available on local intranet) this is very handy.