By askandlearn on

I have some simple Quicktime movies I need to place in Drupal entries. Is there a module for this? Or is it a part of core? Any clues would be helpful.

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arh1 commented

i'm not using video on any D6 sites yet, but here are a few notes regardless...

the video module was the old standby video-as-node solution, but i wouldn't recommend it any more as development seems quite stalled, and typically i wouldn't want videos to be their own nodes.

on a site we built recently we're using the OpenPackage Video module, which is very slick and under heavy development. it transcodes uploaded video to the Flash video format, and uses the FLV Media Player. that format may or may not be appropriate for a given project, and the transcoding itself may be a bottleneck, especially if you're on a shared host.

i'm also excited about the Filefield + jQuery recipe recommend by Sean Effel.

but there are many ways to skin this cat, and a lot of thought/development happening on this front... i'd love to hear other folks' solutions!

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askandlearn commented

Thanks so much for these links.

I like the look of Sean Effel's Filefield +jQuery solution so I'm going to pursue that one.

arh1’s picture

arh1 commented

cool. also check out the video group on g.d.o

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askandlearn commented

I've spent about 4 hours trying to get the jquery solution working and I just can not make it happen. I've been through the video, following along step by step, I've got the new content type and new fields and changed all the parameters, and I'm getting the file uploaded, but it does not preview in my edit window and it does not play in the frontend. I'm afraid I have to go back and finish building out the site on Joomla where I just upload the video by clicking on a button in the editor and fill in some boxes. Come to think of it, why doesn't that same process work in Drupal editors as well? I think I'm using TinyMCE over on Joomla, maybe THAT is a solution?

I'll keep testing out video solutions on Drupal. I really really want to be able to build sites in Drupal, but this particular site needs easy Quicktime video upload and play.