HTML5 videos and basic anon commenting feature

Posted by johnnsb on December 14, 2012 at 7:36pm

Hi, I just stood up a barebones Drupal 7 instance for some dev and test work and have been playing with different modules and themes.

I want to implement a sandbox method for other people on my team to view html5 videos and comment on them. I guess the closest parallel is to something like youtube or vimeo, but I don't need much complexity for my purposes. It's just to function as a sandbox to post videos (nothing fancy, no repo type functionality, no versioning, etc.). And for commenting, it can be as simple as anonymous/guest, nothing special with posting and notifications.

Can anyone point me to a good reference of how to implement this or give me a sense of what pieces I need so I can "fish for myself."

Thanks and I appreciate this resource. Looking forward to becoming a Drupal lover.

Regards,
John

Comments

Short answer: You probably

Posted by steeph on December 14, 2012 at 8:43pm

Short answer: You probably want to check out the Video module.

Slightly longer answer:
I haven't really used this module yet, but since you don't need much functionality, it should be relatively simple. Create a content type for videos, add a video field to it and ceck that comments are enabled for this content type. Now when you create a node of this content type, you can upload a video file with it and visitors will be able to add comments to it (provided anonymous users have the permission to add comments).

You didn't say you want to upload the videos to your site. Maybe you'd rather like to add videos from YouTube or other video hosters. In this case, you can use http://drupal.org/project/emfield and http://drupal.org/project/media_youtube to add a video field to the content type, which does not contain a video, but a link to a video. The principle is the same.

You'll probably want to present the videos on a page, e.g. with the latest videos at the top, a.s.o. Views is the module that will let you create this page. It's a bit of work to learn how to use it, but it's definitely worth it when you create a site on Drupal.

Perfect...both scenarios seem

Posted by johnnsb on December 16, 2012 at 9:57pm

Perfect...both scenarios seem useful for what I need. That's exactly what I needed...appreciate the info.
-John

Regards,
John