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By the way on the Post Installation forum page, when I enter video (or anything else, really) on the search box under documention/download/etc in upper right corner I get a failure message (after a couple minutes of churning) "The Apache Solr search engine is not available. Please contact your site administrator." and no results so... If this has been covered let me know where.
I'm using the embedded media module, with the swfobject_api, all latest versions on a drupal 6.10 installation. I've added the embedded video field per the instructions in embedded media's documentation. I enabled swfobject in the embedded media's configuration as well. (I have to say, I'm kind of dizzy right now because I've gone thru so many documentation pages that start to repeat themselves or have me going around in circles trying to find anything new or overlooked, so bear with me.)
However, at present all I seem to be getting is the dreaded black box once I add in a link to a video. I can think of several things that might be going on but I can't find enough information to determine what might be going on.
First I'm running FF3 on Ubuntu 8.10 so it's possible I've hit some issue in my own set up and the test page I've put together is actually fine. I kind of doubt this because I look at all kinds of content all over and for the most part can see everything. (The website itself is hosted at dreamhost.com.)
I am not actually trying to display third party hosted videos, these are videos on my own account. I can see it's taking a long time to download *something* when i do this, and I'm wondering if it's not streaming but attempting to download the entire 100M file before playing it (to which i can only say OUCH).
The file was originally provided to me as a .mov file; I used ffmpeg to create a flv version; both have issues but ultimately a blank black box. (Oh, I did view the original .mov file with totem movie player on my computer, so I do know it's good.)
Trying to think of what other info might be useful or pertinent. Ultimately I'd like to be able to show off a video gallery like that demonstrated at http://drupalhub.org/videos but clearly I need to be able to display individual videos at first :) Ultimately we want to display a bunch of videos that reside as files at our site rather than elsewhere (eg youtubes) unless this is running into some kind of problem with streaming, or...?
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The above is likely the problem, emfield if for embedding 3rd party video and has .inc files for each 3rd party site. AFAIK, you can't embed video from your site to your site. For something of that nature you want filefield.module (i think) or some other video type module.
From the documentation
From the documentation here:
http://drupal.org/node/184346
There's a long list of third party types supported, but the very last one says:
--> Local videos (when already uploaded in the files directory)
Which I took to mean that it could handle these types of files as well. Perhaps I don't have them uploaded into
the correct directory (if "files directory" refers to a specific folder within drupal rather than just a generic directory on my account)?
It seems to call up the correct player for .mov vs .flv...
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I stand corrected thanks!
I'd assume files is drupal's default files folder.
Can you give me a full path
Can you give me a full path on that? I may be doing things in a really super old fashioned way since I've used unix for decades, but I've been ftping the videos up, and just into a top level 'videos' directory. I don't know where drupal considers it's "default upload folder" to be.
Thanks :)
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sites/default/files
Thanks...it didn't make a
Thanks...it didn't make a difference, but probably best for me to use drupal's organization rather than create my own directories willy nilly :)
Here's a bit of an update...I
Here's a bit of an update...I noticed for the FLV it was hanging on a call to freevideoencoding.com. So I went over there, played with their fields, got the html code (standard flvplayer.swf stuff) and pasted that in to my page. Voila! It works. So it seems that I don't have the embedded media set up correctly or something's gone wrong there. I'd especially like to avoid pasting in this sort of code everywhere to begin with, but in addition I'd like to use my own copy of flvplayer.swf (downloaded and installed the swfobject files per embedded media's directions). I'm suprised it's not using my own flash player but I don't see any where in embedded media's configuration to set the flash player...?
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Just curious and if you do not mind what hosting are you using?
I'm using dreamhost.com
I'm using dreamhost.com ...
I've gotten SWFTools module to work a charm, but I'm frustrated because I'd really like to use the more generalized media tool here. Given the ease with which SWFTools worked, I suspect I overlooked something in configuration...
I'm struggling with this as
I'm struggling with this as well. I'd like to use FLV Media Player instead of going to freevideoencoding.com.
Anybody have a solution for this?
BTW, I think if you edit modules/emfield/contrib/emvideo/providers/zzz_custom_url.inc to the proper code for freevideoencoding.com, you won't have to paste it in every time.
Hi stickee, ......my 2 cents
Hi stickee, ......my 2 cents ..
if u open a new post, and state clearly your request (instead of adding your request in a old and long post), some one may provide the solution to u.
I just completed a demo using flowplayer.
http://drupalway.com/node/263
Not sure how much effort I need to re-do it using JW Player. May be, just need a cup of beer, or 2..
any way..good day.
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Thanks
Good advice, I created a support issue on the projects page.
Cheers,
Mike