Display Local Videos
flickerfly - June 23, 2008 - 18:30
| Project: | Video Filter |
| Version: | 6.x-2.4 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | needs work |
Description
It seems like it would be pretty easy to take this structure to call locally hosted videos through a locally hosted video player (I'm thinking FlowPlayer - http://flowplayer.org/).
My hitch is that I'd want to do it through a private file system for showing training videos that are considered "internal use only". That's why I can't host them elsewhere and I don't want the weight of something like the FlashVideo module
#1
I'm interested in it too. Is it possible ?
#2
Subscribing
#3
Subscribing
#4
I just wrote a little module to do this using the JW Media Player.
You can upload an FLV or MP3 as a file attachment, or upload to a directory through FTP. If you use FTP you can serve the files from another server.
Any thoughts on how to move forward with this? It could either be a sub-module or we could incorporate this functionality into video_filter. Feedback appreciated.
#5
Great work!
I'll take a look at this tomorrow, so we can figure out how we can proceed with it. Thanks!
#6
Hey jumpfightgo,
Sorry I haven't gotten back to you with this.
I've tried the module, and while it works (awesome!), I think we need to think a little more about how to do this properly. We can't add the jw player to the module, so either we need to add a link to download it, or add a dependency to a player module.
Thoughts?
#7
I would just add a link to jw player in the install instructions, that's what all the other flash embed modules do. I've attached updated install instructions.
The other player modules tend to use swfobject to place the flash player with javascript, which is not the way the Video Filter module works, so at first glance the other player modules I'm familiar with would be difficult to integrate.
I like that the video filter module is very small, and a little contrib module like this, with a link to jw player, would allow someone to extend their a/v capabilities without having to install another module (which, honestly if you look at the instructions for FLV Media Player can be arduous).
Also, there's an embed module, http://drupal.org/project/embed , that is coming along well, so ideally when that's ready video_filter could just play well with the embed module and we wouldn't need this contrib module at all, but who knows when it'll actually be ready for production sites...