By dugawug on

Now that my Drupal site is up, I was hoping to create a video gallery. We have a bunch of videos on youtube that we'd rather stream from our site instead of taking the user off to youtube.com. Anyone know of a module to do this? I figure we can upload screenshot images of the videos as thumbnails.

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vm commented

investigate the media category in the downloads area.
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dugawug commented

that i did and i can't say anything jumped out at me as much of a solution...surprisingly.

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shashi_bi commented

Hi

you can use video module.

by using video module,

you can embed youtub, google and other videos directly by mentioning video id as well you can upload and play videos directly from your site also

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dugawug commented

thanks, but does that operate as sort of a "gallery" where thumbnails can be seen and a user can pick from watching one of dozens of videos?

my guess is not... ;(

am i wrong?

i'm really surprised that there doesn't seem to be something like this already...

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shakethetv commented

you can stream your videos from youtube using your player... no need to stream yourself.

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dugawug commented

yes, not worried about streaming, but a gallery with thumbnails for my videos.

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shashi_bi commented

Hey

very nice site..

which modules did u used for this site.

can u give me the modules list.

thanks
bsk

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shakethetv commented

if you are talking about my beta website :
multiping
cck
Content Templates
JQuery Update
and apc_cache

enable but don't use them :
menu, Pathauto, Form store, Captcha

everything else if from my own modules maybe 20 differents, few are enable now.

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dugawug commented

i take it then there is no video gallery module, that allows thumbnails for a collection of videos that stream from youtube.

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vm commented

For thumbnails to be generated from video you need to have FFMPEG installed on your server. Many hosts don't do this.

however, investigate the flashvideo module. It is the only one I can see that will generate thumbnails.

Personally, I'd use the Gallery2 script @ gallery.menalto.com and work with some custom themeing for a site if this is what I wanted to do. Gallery2 works with more then just images.

The fact that you want thumbnails on your site, to stream from Youtube, suggests to me that the above ideas would be pointless and you shoud resort to hand creating your page in Drupal. If you are looking for dynamic in this case, then you will have to do some legwork.
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