Streaming FLV
barendt - April 3, 2009 - 18:12
Can anyone suggest the best way to allow uploading, searching and serving of FLV files from my Drupal site? The files have already been converted to FLV and we want to host them locally, not with YouTube et al. These requirements seem to be making my search for a solution difficult.
It seems like there are a number of different modules that might do it, but none of them quite seem to work for what I need. The Video module (http://drupal.org/project/video) sounds like what I need, but there is no release for Drupal 6.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Try Dash Player...its nice
Try Dash Player...its nice looking but on other side its pain to configure it...you can use views to search for videos (assuming you are searching through titles. )
Chetan
Chetan Jain
We have run into the same
We have run into the same problem time and time again. None of the third-party modules ever seem to fit our need, as awesome as they all are.
How much experience do you have with module development? What we've done, is just used fileupload (cck) to upload the module, then we'll write a small theme module to display the videos, usually in Shadowbox or we'll roll our own player.
The video module (afaik) only allows you to add inline video into content, which will not help you in the requirement of searching. Searching is the number one reason we generally want the FLVs to be added as nodes.
I hope that helps, cheers!
Fourth Wall Media
Toronto, Canada
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I like the http://drupal.org/project/swftools and http://drupal.org/project/flashnode modules (which also handles audio btw). If you add a tagging vocabulary to the node that flashnode creates, then your videos will be "searchable".
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This module looks quite
This module looks quite promising too:
http://drupal.org/project/flashfield
Fourth Wall Media
Toronto, Canada
Playing FLV on Drupal
Has anyone (besides me) noticed that FLVs uploaded to the site and played through Drupal don't playback as smoothly as one would expect. I understand that my site isn't YouTube, but FLV over HTTP on a traditional web page seems to playback a little smoother than FLV in a Drupal page. Maybe it's the extra PHP? Maybe the modules add an extra layer of extraction, I don't know.
FLV over HTTP on a
FLV over HTTP on a traditional web page seems to playback a little smoother than FLV in a Drupal page
>> yes, if your drupal is running on a slow machine
Maybe it's the extra PHP?
>> yes..u got it.
solution: upgrade your server (or hosting plan).
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Went with swftools and flashnode
For anyone else in the same boat, I've decided to go with SWF tools and Flashnode. I'm having a small issue with Flashnode and file paths, but other than that it definitely meets my requirements.
Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions.