By rubenk on

I encourage other users to please write a comment below if you feel like you'd really like to see more development on this module (or even extend a hand).

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Fabio, Fabio.
Where have you gone?
To the gym, to work, perhaps to Saigon?
It is but so sad that I must turn away,
from video.module to another with cck.
I do not wish to jump ship, indeed I love so many features.

It is just feels like if I install it, in the not so distant future, I may be unsupported.
I would like this letter to let you know that I finally got it working!
I am nervous however that all my efforts may be thwarted...
by 6.0. with no active development and people like me pining for intro video, thumbnail block, easy user control,
"false" play on load option, vertical video positioning, and multisite compatibility,
run cron on submit, add a watermark, or attach video to other nodes...that last one is my personal goal!

I would be false not to say what keeps my urge to leave at bay.
Things like automatic vertical sizing, no-reupload, and a very pretty player.
Nicely packaged with no need to edit things in the template or even contemplate. I like that!
Embedding youtube, google, and ogg to boot. Using a video RSS feed and data about data. Sir for these thing, a tip of my hat.
I would give you tons of money if I was rich and I probably sound like a bit of a naysayer,
but please oh please won't you come out of hiding today?

I would like to use this module and help you see this through to completion, especially if you can fix random video deletions!

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Okay, well. I hope that gets my point across.
I know we all have lives outside of Drupal but I have installed flashvideo and would use it, except it isn't quite right. That seems to be the Drupal way....almost there, you know. Anyway, I really like yours better, Fabio but my personal agenda is to be able to attach video nodes to other nodes.

Is there anything I can do to help you? Unfortunately, my php is pretty crummy. As promised earlier I will submit a guide for everyday joe, like me, to compile and install ffpmeg on a shared server, test it, and configure video.module to use it...so I am guilty too.

P.S. > I won't quit my dayjob, but I'll be here all week ;-)

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mcm.drupal’s picture

mcm.drupal commented

I ran into Fabio at the Craigslist Non-Profit Bootcamp conference in SF in August. I introduced myself because he was wearing a T-Shirt that said "Patches Welcome" :-)

He said he was concentrating pretty exclusively on getting some non-profit started... sounded like a foundation for video related OS projects, but I'm not sure.

At any rate, you might try the online communities that sprang from that bootcamp (start w/ http://craigslistfoundation.org); he may be more involved there?

G' luck

rubenk’s picture

rubenk commented

i poked around the site but don't really see a way to contact him....nonetheless, i have started using fkash video for some stuff and may migrate over.

discursives’s picture

discursives commented

No doubt he is doing good work. What would it take to find yourself a maintainer elsewhere?

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rubenk commented

Sorry, I am a bit confused by the question?
I was thinking someone from within the Drupal development community might be willing to step in and at least co maintain. I am not yet adept enough to atempt it but I have seen some good patches come through aby talented people.

Nonetheless, I agree that Fabio is excellent and meticulous with his work. I'd like to see the submitted patches, well, patched, and some sort of progress towards 6.0 release as well.

The biggest bummer is that I waited. Fabio said he was rolling a new release a while back and it has not materialized (search the issue que if you are curious). Anyway, it looks like there is something (a release) on his website that he says is not stable, but I don't unerstand why he doesnt make it a dev branch here where people could help.

Thanks for your response but I wonder if maybe there should be talk about rolling this and flashvideo together??

I am surprised nobody else had chimed in too.

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falk_g commented

Video module is such an important thing these days - as much as a image module. Doesn´t a video thing need to go into the core? And not flash video only but the the full spectrum (especiall mp4). I have seen that the image module moved to the core for drupal 6 I think the video module should do the same. The web is just not about text only anymore.

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EmpireNM commented

Just wanted to "chime in". I agree. The way the web is developing, video is becoming an essential component. And this module is excellent. As far as I am concerned, if it wasn't for this module, I'd be on the look-out for another CMS. I would love to see it go core.

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esadot commented

maybe the community (i.e. us) could sponsor, if someone is willing to step up

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seaneffel commented

Look at the Filefield module and the jQuery Module together as a team.

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jbrown commented

You should check out my video module, OpenPackage Video.

The 5.x-3.x-dev version is almost ready to be 5.x-3.0 . Please test!

Here are some of the features:

Transcoding to flash can either occur locally using your own ffmpeg, or you can create an account on openpackage.biz and use our transcoding service at $1 per hour of video. These days ffmpeg can handle just about any video format you can throw at it.

Preview images are grabbed during transcoding at the beginning of the video and at 1/3 of the video duration. It can be selected which is displayed to the user. Additionally the user can provide a custom preview image. Preview images are available through the views module with configurable sizes.

Video plays, complete plays and downloads are all logged. This information is exposed through the views interface.

Video embedding - there is a tab that displays html code that can be used to embed the video on another website. This functionality needs greater configurability.

op_video (as of yesterday) has full node_import functionality, so videos can be imported into your site en mass.

Video data is exposed via the 'views' interface and also the 'token' interface. The token module can be used by the custom_links module to provide information about the video.

Video podcasting is also supported.

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Jonathan Brown
http://openpackage.biz/

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Jonathan Brown
http://jonathanpatrick.me/

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falk_g commented

Well it would be such a good module if it wasn´t for the fact that it uses flash exclusively. People are using the video module because it allows you to use about any video format there is. There are lots of people who do not see flashvideo as the video worlds saviour. If you can do standard MPG4 without a bandwidth cpuresource eating flash wrapper then I guess you might have a video module contender.