By dresde on

Hello there,

I'm trying to add some videos to my Website built with Drupal6. After browsing all the forums and googleing, I guess the easiest way is using SWFTools (let me know if there is an easier way to just upload the video). I have download the files to support Flowplayer3, and I have uploaded them. So what I ahve right now is

SWFTools Module: enabled, and also enabled Flowplayer3 option and SWFObject2. I'm not sure I actually need the SWFObject2 thing.

In the folder "swftools/shared" the files: flowplayer-3.0.7.swf, flowplayer.audio-3.0.4.swf, flowplayer.rtmp-3.0.2.swf
In the folder SWFTools/shared/swfobject2" the file swfobject.js

But right now I really don't know what do I have to do to make the videos work. I guess I have to upload the videos in .flv format in the folder default/files, or using the tip from the same SWFtools, add in sites/default/settings.php this array with the url of the folder where I will upload my videos.

  $conf = array(
    'swftools_media_url' => 'http://anothersite.com/media', // No trailing slashes!
  );

And now... create a new page, and what do I do to show my video?

By the way, have I missed any step or is everything ok?

And what do I hace to do to make the player work with a playlist? If I add 3 videos I rather to have one player with playlist than three players.

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aloyr’s picture

aloyr commented

Interestingly enough, I just had to setup swftools in one of my drupal sites today!

After getting the swftools and the player modules activated (flowplayer3 + audio and streaming plugins for me), I used the flashnode module (http://drupal.org/project/flashnode) which created a new content type called flash.

I didn't need playlists nor did I need multiple flash files in one node, so that was sufficient for me.

I hope this helps you at least in part.

-pcp

perl -e 'print unpack(u,";8F4@=&AE(&-H86YG92P@=7-E(&1R=7!A;\"\$*");'

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dresde commented

Thanka aloyr,

Using the flash-node, can I upload more than one video per page? Or can I use it to upload the video and normal text/images, or just the video?

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dresde commented

So, I have done it with the flashnode, and it seems to work (I add the video and it appears as a new node). The problem is it appears without any control bar (play, stop...), and it doesn't appear centered and seems to be no way to do that. Long story short: how do I it look better?

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mandarmbhagwat78 commented

I think you should go for http://drupal.org/project/flashvideo.
It allows you to upload various video formats and converts it into flv. But the prerequisite is to have ffmpeg insalled on your server.

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dresde commented

Reading the project sounds really good... wich ffmpeg module do I need? The wrapper, the converter? I'm searching but Apache isn't working fine today in Drupal.org...

-----Edit-----
Ok, I understand I need the ffmpeg installed on the server, but I don't have full access to it so I guess I will go with the other way. Thank you anyways.

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mandarmbhagwat78 commented

You need to download it from http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html

mrmgraphics’s picture

mrmgraphics commented

+

I used SWF Tools and Flowplayer on the following site:

http://www.iiviinfrared.com

The one thing I can't get working -- and/or have no idea how to get working -- is support for Express Install if site visitors don't have Flash 9 or greater. I saw this on the Flowplayer site: A dialog pops up in the Flowplayer window, and prompts the visitor to install the latest version of Flash without ever leaving the site. It's very slick, and I really want to add that to my Flowplayer install, but am clueless as to how to do so.

Anyone familiar with this?

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Jerome F commented

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mlosee222 commented

I use flashvideo for my site and I think it is a little overkill if you aren't going to use user generated video or don't need FFMPEG to transcode your video files into FLVs.