Change field type from file to video [#1960036]

I had a drupal 6 site with a content type for videos that had a video field. When I upgraded to drupal 7, I used the cck migrate module to migrate my cck type to entities and fields. However, it converted all of video fields to 'file' fields. So the nodes are there, and the files are correctly associated with each node, but I can't use the video widget to edit the fields or add new video nodes, as I can only use the file widget (or the media widget). Is there a way, even if it's a manual hack, to edit the db and change the field type back to video?

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ñull commented 9 May 2013 at 19:22

I'll need the same in the coming month or so. Did you find already a solution? One way around it that I know is to use the theme to display the file field as video or also a view can be used in combination with panels. Panels allows you to have a different display for each (entity) content type, so for your content type that had the video field in D6 you can customise it and let view come into play showing it in a video player.

I have the same problem with a video and preview field that was displayed in a flash player. I want them now to play natively in Flash with HTML5 video tag. So I will also need on-the-server video conversion and reattaching them to the same node.