The JW FLV Player playlist is capable of displaying the duration of each track, as well as a small description of each track. It would be really nice if there was some way of providing this information to the playlist generated by flashvideo.playlist for each track.

The format for the xml is

<duration>30:10.23</duration>
<annotation>You could include a short description of the track in here. However, where would flashvideo get this from?</annotation

Presumably, the duration of each track would need to be extracted from the flv metadata. I'm not sure where the annotation would come from - can this metadata be embedded in flv files? It would probably be best if we could expose control of the annotation values to some specifically named cck elements, much like how the control over ffmpeg conversions is handled in flashvideo_cck.

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mrfelton commented

I hacked the playlist code to pull a description for each file from from a new CCK field that I included in my video nodetype. This isn't ideal as a node could have several videos attached, and they would all end up with the same description in the playlist... However, I just realised that CCK's filefield actually has an option to include a description with each file upload. Perhaps flashvideo could pull the description for each file in the playlist from this field. This would work much better than my current hack since this description is specific to each file, rather than to the node the file was attached to.

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attheshow commented
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

I've posted a suggested solution for this using the Views module at #404396: playlist:how to create a playlist with views?.