Hi maintainers,

I'm having substantial trouble getting this module installed and configured properly. I'm a Drupal developer and have used this module with great success in D6, but for D7, nothing seems to be working at all. Here's what I've done so far:

On a fresh install of Drupal, I have downloaded and installed both the Media module and Embedded Media Field. I'm trying to add videos to nodes via URL's. I don't specifically see an embedded video module to enable on the module administration page, and this module, http://drupal.org/project/video_embed_field, seems unrelated. The D.O module page says:

"The module is only an engine, and requires a supported module to function. These include 'Embedded Image Field', 'Embedded Video Field' and 'Embedded Audio Field'. These modules are included in the contrib folder of the module, so they can be easily activated from the module administration page."

Please note that I see no such 'contrib' folder or secondary module options for the D7 version of this module. Unless I am mistaken, this help text seems to be erroneous. I assume http://drupal.org/node/1758918 is related.

Once I install this module, I do see some ways to add media fields to nodes, although all except one goes through the 'file' field (which I'm not sure if that's correct, because I'm not trying to add a file to a node, I'm trying to add in a video URL to be attached to a node). The two options I see, "Media file selector" and "Embedded Media Field," allow me to add in video information to the node. I add two different fields to the node to test, one with each option.

When I attempt to upload a video URL via the "Media File Selector" option (Select Media Button -> Web -> URL or Embed Code), I see a field to add in embed code, and a "Supported providers" heading, with nothing listed below. I also see no administrator setting to determine what sources I can add / remove anywhere on the site, nor was any mention of any made on the README file. When I attempt to paste in a video (I have tried 2 different videos from 2 different providers, youtube and blip.tv), I get this error message:

"Unable to handle the provided embed string or URL"

Trying the other field with the "Embedded Media Field" option to the field with the same 2 different videos from 2 different providers, I get this error message:

"Video Three: Found no valid media with that url"

(Video Three is the name of the field).

As a result of these errors, this module does not seem to be usable in it's present form. The read me files and whatever documentation I could find seems to be lacking information on this subject, and the support threads seem to pertain to D6 issues.

Am I doing something incorrectly, or is there something else at play?

Please advise.

Thanks!

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rc2020 commented

Any luck?

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Hi Ron,

I'm struggling a bit with alpha2 as well.
However I am able to add video's and display them using a file_field.
I don't know if file_field is the logical choice, since we are not added files.
But, by doing this I am at least able to use the File Entity module to pick display settings for the video file type.

You are correct in your assumption that video_embed_field is an unrelated module. So you don't need it (or get rid of emfield).

To get emfield working with any video provider you will need to install the corresponding modules.
So for example for youtube video's install the module media_youtube, and for vimeo: media_vimeo. They are listed on the module page.

My problem was editing a node after adding a video url. (Fixed in this issue's patch)