4.8/5.0 RoadMap

Another task is getting the new 4.7 revisions working.
Flash .swf support.
And I thought it might be possible to merge the custom fields and meta data theme code somehow.
I think the XHTML compliance is important and will require tons of testing.

I think it's important we get these major feature changes done before 4.7 is offically released, especially any database schema changes. I might go on a coding binge next week when I get back to the US.

Another idea I had that I'll stick here for now was to use a javascript system to log file downloads instead of the current method of redirects.

Sounds good, so I'll start working on:

4.7 node revisions.
Image thumbnail support.
Flash .swf filetype support.
Javascript download logging.

Uhm.. hey guys, need any help? I've already got uploading and thumbnails working :)

Please be sure to build in RSS feed support for these items so that your module builds the right RSS feed structure for each of these popular aggregators. You've got the opportunity to fold a lot of steps into one single module and help a place like our non-profit TV station break off our channels! Thanks guys!

Participatory Culture DTV: http://dtvmac.com/
There has already been discussion about this here: http://drupal.org/node/25230

FireAnt Video Aggregator: http://getfireant.com/

iTunes Vodcasting: http://playlistmag.com/features/2005/07/howtovodcast/index.php?lsrc=mwto...

Also consider a brilliant method of sorting videos on the RSS feed by more than date. I'm trying to sort this out now, so I can pick and choose which videos rise to the top of the RSS rank, maybe when the node is chosen as a sticky that it will influence the RSS feed too.

I would like a nicer layout for /video viewing, that would make browsing much like the image.module.

Thanks for the help!

I see I'm slowly getting out of the loop, but here is some code I made a couple months ago to generate a FLV player with the PHP5 ming extension. I figured it would generate a cache of players of varying sizes (depending on what movies get uploaded and the dimensions provided for them). Add a cron hook or check when the video is uploaded for when to generate a new size of player.

I've added mpeg4 and m4v (iPod playback) support in a very barbaric way. Basically when .mp4 and .m4v files are found they are handled by QuickTime. I've tested this and seems to work fine, but someone should look closely at my work because am a total beginner.

Sample file: http://www.cctvcambridge.org/videomodule.zip

Maybe you should add a custom field into the module so that I can specify any extension and then select an application or plug-in to handle the file. Then you don't have to keep hardcoding it all with each new file type that is born.

Hi Fabio and other developers,

thank you very much for this great and powerfull module!

I try it out with 4.7b3 and it works very well.
There is one feature, that I need, but I have no php-skils to realize it by myself :-(

I think an option, to repeat the content from the page, displayed under the film-window and the "Download latest Player here"-text would be very usefull.
It is possible to integrate this feature (as an global modul-option) in the module?

Thanks a lot
ikke

Is the RSS feed included ? If so what would be the feed specific to video that can be promoted as a DTV channel?
I tried example.com/video/feed but that doesn't work.

Do I have to create a feed that only specifies video modules with the views module in order to create one or is there some integrated way I'm just missing.

thanks,
metapunk

Feeds are not automatic for modules. I think it might need some variation or implementations of taxonomy_nodeapi (http://drupaldocs.org/api/head/function/taxonomy_nodeapi) in the menu hook.

A cool feature would be to impliment on fly auto conversion from various video formats to FLA. Impliment FFmpeg to do it and extract the thumbnail of the video. :) Maybe this is too much...

user uploads into a subdir that is a filsystem-safe version of the user's name. (ie, if user "joe cool" uploads file "test.txt", it ends up in "files/joe_cool/test.txt"). see node:14790

@Steve: I'm interested. I've been putting video nodes in the book tree.

just seeing if i can re-attach this issue to the video project with a followup. i hope this works. see #56454 for more info...

Since Drupal 4.7 rc2 is out, I think it's seriously time for a 4-7 branch or feature freeze. With http://drupal.org/node/50584, it should be a lot easier to add features after we we tag video.module so people can upgrade their site when Drupal 4.7 is released.

I use the module for Quicktime movies we FTP to the server. I'm ready to freeze and stabilize for tagging. The module doesn't have to wait until 4.8/5.0 for another release now that the hook_update_x() hook is available.

I +1 fax8 #27 and add to it the bug report that one of my coworkers said the node creation form for videos is broken and doesn't actually create new video nodes. I haven't verified it, yet.

Is the development of the Video module 4.7 still going? Now that Drupal 4.7 is out, I think it would be worth getting something out that works (it doesn't even need all the added functionality mentioned above).

I use the CVS version of the video module on a 4.7 site just fine. Fabio's video application for Google SoC didn't get accepted, so the module should probably be branched for 4.7 without the above features. The next core freeze is September, so they can go there.

It's a great news for Video module! there are three very important features.

another one, it could be video galleries.

I think that YouTube integration (or Google or Yahoo!) may be the most important feature for video for the future. For small sites, serving video eats up expensive bandwidth. And even for bigger companies like the one I work for (20+ newspapers in Western U.S.) we are looking at YouTube because it allows us expanded distribution and ease of use.

My dream video system would be to serve up a page for users to upload video and meta data to my site where it would be transfered to our YouTube account (with an option for moderation for users without privileges), and then return the embed code to be placed in a node on our site, and organized in a video gallery.

I don't even know if this is possible, but it sure would be nice. I'd be willing to bet we could raise some money for a feature like this, just for the bandwidth it would save so many users.

Thank you to all the people working on this module.

I posted this elsewhere but I think its better to go here. What is the possibility of adding a progress indicator bar to the video upload module, this way we can see that the upload is happening rather than looking like a page that is failing to load. I'm no programmer so you tell me if this is possible.

One more thing, can you make it so the max upload file size is set by the admin? I've got BIG videos to post, like two hours of talking heads from a conference, and I cannot find a clear way of lifting these limits.

Thanks!

What's wrong with using the upload.module? It features an AJAX upload moniter.....