By PartisanEntity on

Hello everyone,

I have set up a Drupal site for a project, and they have an event coming up that will be filmed, apparently it will also be streamed live and they asked whether the live stream could be included on the site I made for them.

Does anyone have experience with this? How does this usually work? Do I embed the live feed in to a Drupal node? Do I need any modules? Does the server (LAMP) need to be configured in any way? Etc..

I have never done this before and I would appreciate any tips.

(Basically I won't have to worry about the filming or broadcasting the film on to the net, all I have to worry about is getting a live video feed on the site (I will also be in touch with the technicians who will film the even and stream it)).

Thank you in advance.

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mastro’s picture

mastro commented

I'm starting to study the same problem.

I know that is possible to transmit live video in web using www.ustream.tv. Now I'm asking if it is possible to integrate usteam in drupal.

I'll try as soon I can, in meanwhile, if you have some idea, please tell me!

THANKS

TKS’s picture

TKS commented

We've used UStream.tv to stream live video for a few New America Foundation (www.newamerica.net) events, and it works rather well.

Their standard embed code works just fine with Drupal. You can drop it right into the Body field, so long as:
1. Input format is set to full HTML; and
2. You're not using TinyMCE -- or at least keep the rich-text editor disabled!

Or you could also drop the code into the template itself, if this was going to be part of a certain node type almost every time. We haven't taken that step with UStream yet, but do have the option of YouTube videos built into our event templates (see here, for example), with a CCK field where one can enter just the Video ID -- the rest of the embed code gets wrapped around it automatically.

In addition, there are several modules that tackle embedded video in different ways, but I found it easier to just handle it at the template level.

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jaydj commented

were you able to have the live stream video on all pages and won't stop if the user would load another page on the site ?

i have code that could easily place a live stream on a page. my problem lies that the client wants the video to play without any interruptions, stops or pauses caused from loading another page or browsing within the site. that's why using frames is the only solution i could think of. problem is drupal doesn't work good with frames. any suggestions ?

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TKS commented

Ahh... that *would* be something else entirely. I agree that frames are probably the only plausible approach -- assuming that launching the player in a pop-up window isn't acceptable. But I've never had reason to try either of those solutions.

Good luck.