Video Management Module for Drupal
thewizord - October 26, 2007 - 20:18
Hi all!!
Kinda new around these parts, so be gentle :)
I've been playing about with Drupal to see if I could set it up to manage my video collection. However I'd prefer not to reinvent the wheel here and would love to try out a module which manage video. The specific type of video is DIVX. I've no need for MPEG or Flash. I liked filmforge but it does not support DIVX.
Is there such a thing?
Hi! There's 3 modules for
Hi!
There's 3 modules for video: video, flashvideo, media_mover. On my opinion flashvideo is the easyest installation, but it requires some additional php modules on server, media_mover is the most complicated solution - it could said some type of "media management framework". FilmForge is based upon video.module.
Please answer two questions:
1) What do you have for hosting? Standard account, vps, own server?
2) What do you want to get as a result? Video-community? Online viewing of videos? User uploads to you collection? Comments?
Eugene
To answer your
To answer your questions:
The server is my own. I can install anything I want on her.
The main goal would be to have a site which allows users to view videos. I'd love to having something like Stage6, but of course Ive no need for comments.users uploading videos,all fancy looks, channels etc. Basically I just want to be able to upload videos and let the users view them. Categorizing them would be a massive bonus.
The videos are mostly in Xvid and DIVX format. Which is why I can't really go with a flash solution.
Thanks for the reply!
For this purpose you may use
For this purpose you may use FlashVideo, I've built the system with it, and it works well. I think it's the easyest way if you don't need other things. May be FilmForge will be even too much for such case.
Have you tried FFmpeg?
I use it for recoding all uploaded video files to FLV format.
I think you may use FLV for videos due to the following reasons: it's quite easy fo users (almost 99% of internet users have flash player, nothing else need to be installed) and it' streamable.
Eugene
P.S. Thanks for FilmForge information.
I'm afraid FLV video format
I'm afraid FLV video format just wont do. The video collection is quite immense and having to convert originals to FLV format will just cost more in hardware. Also the quality may go down on conversion. Some of the videos are high definition also.
I'll have to keep on searching then!
Thanks for the help
Have you looked at
Have you looked at capabilities of video.module?
It can serve original files with native view tools:
flv - flash player
wmv - WIndows MEdia Plugin
ogg - java plugin
and so on.
I installed this module this
I installed this module this morning.
It would be perfect if it let play DIVX files. They are in the .AVI format.
If I could maybe edit the code to something like
**
if file = .avi
display message XYZ
**
Then it would be possible to use the DIVX html web player code and viola, video will play :)
Any thoughts on this?
I had a snoop around the
I had a snoop around the video.module
I changed line 953:
Can I do this? Im not used to the whole open source scene.
Successfuly?
Successfuly?
Well I just found a really
Well I just found a really nice site built off Drupal.
http://bluesplayer.co.uk/films/
I would love to have a site like this. Does anyone know if its built off Drupal modules?
Since I'm not a php programmer, I'm really relying on there being modules for all of this :(
Thanks once again folks!