By sjames on

I installed the video.module
I then created a video node at http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/taxonomy_menu/2/3/41

any viewer should be able to play the video, but when I click on 'play' here's the message I get:

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Problems viewing videos?
Download latest Quicktime Player
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I have Quicktime installed.

am I missing a step in creating the video node?

any help appreciated.

thanks.
susan

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fax8 commented

You probably made some errors during the video node creation.
Please carefully check that the video file location you specified
is correct.

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sjames commented

this is the video file path to the video which is listed in the video node page
http://www.shreemaa.org/media/video/in_the_news.wmv

the path alias is in the document root at
media/video/in_the_news.wmv
and I've listed this in the node page.

the video isn't generating at http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/taxonomy_menu/2/3/41

any other ideas?

susan

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sjames commented

this is the 'video file path' to the video which is listed in the video node page
http://www.shreemaa.org/media/video/in_the_news.wmv
it downloads with the full path but I don't want it to download.
I would like it to play online only.

the 'path alias' is in the document root at
media/video/in_the_news.wmv
and I've listed this in the node page.

the video isn't generating at http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/taxonomy_menu/2/3/41

any other ideas?

susan

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fax8 commented

you have inserted the path to the video on the path alias
wich is not related to video.module . You have to delete this
path alias (becouse now http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/media/video/in_the_news.wmv
point to the node).

The correct form field where you have to insert is the one
called "Video File" on the video node creation form.

Moreover the video.module for drupal 4.6 support only quicktime
videos while you are trying to play a wmv file which is not supported.
Support for wmv has been added for the next version of video.module for drupal 4.7

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sjames commented

thank you.

what is the ETA for the next video.module that supports wmv?

sorry to ask for an ETA, but we have many, many wmv's that we want to post on our drupal site.

also, will drupal support the RTSP (real time streaming protocol)?

susan

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sjames commented

http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/taxonomy_menu/2/3
is still not playing the video.

here is the correct form field "video file" that I have:
http://www.shreemaa.org/media/video/sakali.mov

something is still not correct.

susan

fax8’s picture

fax8 commented

After analysing your problem I understood that probably the video
module is having some problems.

I created a bug report http://drupal.org/node/45447 with a (hope)
bugfree version attached. Would be useful if you could test it

Thanks,
Fabio

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sjames commented

I dropped video_5 into my drupal-4.6.4 modules directory.
I still can't get a video to play.

see http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/node/90
here's the full path http://www.shreemaa.org/media/video/OmNamoShivaya.mov

susan

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sjames commented

I did finally get the quicktime video to play but only after I went to the download tab.
I should just have to go to the 'play' tab and the video should play.
is this a bug?
I have full url path in the video file field on node page.
http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/node/90

does anyone happen to know what size parameters we use so that the video frames fill up the entire page. there are size and pixel fields in the node page which I'm not sure how to fill in.
this is my first time at setting up a video.

thanks!
susan

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vikramdhani commented

it might be
that your web host is not offering your the http streaminf service it happened with me once.
Dont know if it will be helpful for you but thought should let you know

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fax8 commented

The video does not play becouse you didn't specify video size.
You have to get this information from the quicktime player.
Movie->Get Movie Propierties->Viedo Track->Format
You then will see two numbers: Width and Heigth.
You need to use them on your node creation page.

Fabio

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sjames commented

thanks for the information.

I used 160 for video size x and 120 for video size y on the node creation page.
this is the information that I got from the movie properties. the dimension of the movie is 4.41MB
I also placed this information in the node creation page.

the movie doesn't want to play.
http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/node/90/play

here's the movie played from a URL at http://www.shreemaa.org/media/video/OmNamoShivaya.mov

susan

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fax8 commented

here it plays!

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sjames commented

thanks. ;-)
your new module does work now. video_5

how do I make the video a larger frame size?
I used 160 for video size x and 120 for video size y on the node creation page. this is the information that I got from the movie properties. the dimension of the movie is 4.41MB
I also placed this information in the node creation page.

I want to have a full display video.
can video module do that?

thanks!
susan

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sjames commented

http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/node/98

I think I've optimized the video size for best resolution.

does anyone know when there will be support for wmv files?

susan

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fax8 commented

Support for wmv has been added on the cvs version of video.module .
You will need drupal 4.7beta to use the cvs version .

If you want to use the new features available on the cvs version on
a drupal 4.6 there is a backport http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/uwe/
mantained by Uwe Hermann.

Hope this helps you.

Fabio

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sjames commented

thanks. good stuff!.

I applied the patch to the 4.6 video.module so that wmv files will play.
if you can hear one of these Windows videos out at http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/node/98, let me know.
here's one:
http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/node/99

susan

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sjames commented

I've got video_5 module working.
on a fast connection, the video buffers and on a slow connection, the video does not buffer; it never plays.
this happens with Quicktime on Macintosh, and, on Windows media player in Windows.

can someone let me know how I can make the video buffer on slow connections? this is a drupal video bug because the video buffers outside of using drupal.

see http://www.shreemaa.org/media/video/sakali.WMV

and then see my drupal videos at
http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/node/98

fast connections buffer with no problem. slow connections don't buffer the movie.

can someone on the video module devel team help?
or anyone else?

thanks.
susan

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fax8 commented

please rename the video from sakali.WMV to sakali.wmv
then use the renamed file with video.module .

This should work

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sjames commented

I changed the WMV extension to wmv and that didn't make a difference. I even changed the video.

see my videos at http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/node/105

the Quicktime play on a fast connection.
on slow connections, the video never buffers and doesn't play.
do you know why drupal can't do slow connections with video?

these very same videos play at another website.
see http://www.shreemaa.org/media/video/OmNamoShivaya.mov
and http://www.shreemaa.org/media/video/in_the_news.wmv

I really need some help with this. is there a video bug in drupal?

I'm using the new video_5 module. is this the correct module to use?

susan

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fax8 commented

If you go to http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/node/99
and then click on download you will get an "Not Found"
found page. This meas that the file that is pointed by the
video module does not exists (or has another name) on your
server.

About the buffering stuff:
Only some of the quicktime codecs enable the buffering on play.
Usually using Soreson I get my videos to buffer.
(see http://www.adrenalinteam.it/ under the video section)
You should do some encoding attempts and check if it works.

Fabio

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sjames commented

you probably got the 'not found' page when I was working on the site.

see my videos at http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/node/105
I've changed the wmv extension and even changed the video.
can you hear the wmv video?
no one on my side can hear it.
I can hear the quicktime on fast connections only.

about the buffering.
this video buffers with no problem on slow connections: http://www.shreemaa.org/media/video/in_the_news_mp4
why can't drupal buffer it on slow connections?
and, this one also buffers on slow connections: http://www.shreemaa.org/media/video/OmNamoShivya.mov

is there something I'm not doing in drupal to enable the full functionality of video?

I appreciate your help.

susan

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fax8 commented

I think that this is a problem of encoding of your videos,
not related to video module (but I can make a mistake).

So.. can you please go to http://www.adrenalinteam.it/ski-freestyle/node/221/play
there is a quicktime video, would you check it for buffering?

Thanks,
Fabio

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sjames commented

I tried the Quicktime video out at http://www.adrenalinteam.it/ski-freestyle/node/221/play
on a 500KBS satellite link and it buffered with no problem!
I can't get any of 'our' drupal video's to buffer at that network speed.

but, note that this set of videos(outside of drupal) does buffer on the 500KBS satellite link:
http://www.shreemaa.org/media/video/OmNamoShivaya.mov
http://www.shreemaa.org/media/video/sakali.WMV
http://www.shreemaa.org/media/video/sakali.mov

does this mean that our technology that we are using to create the videos won't work in drupal?
I am using drupal-4.6.5 with the video_5 module.

can you let me know how you create your videos?
We output in Quick Time, convert to mpg1, then reduce file size in Windows Movie Maker.

any help here is appreciated very much.

susan

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fax8 commented

Ok.. so this is not a drupal problem...

You probably didn't use the right codecs during the encoding
of your videos.
I suggest reading my posts above where I was talking about
the soreson video codec.

Fabio

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sjames commented

can wmv videos work with the video_5 module?

thank you so much,
susan

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fax8 commented

no. read my posts above.

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crick commented

does the latest version of video.module work with the official 4.7 release of drupal?

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fax8 commented

yes, latest video module cvs should work on drupal 4.7.

If you find errors or problems please fill a bug report.

Fabio

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Joe D commented

Hi Susan.
I am a newbie with limited CSS skills. I was looking for posts on QuickTime not playing and I clicked the link in your video question and saw your site. (FYI-I still can't get QT videos to play)
How did you get the image(s) in the background? Are you running a custom theme, or did you hack an existing Drupal theme?
Thanks.
Joe D

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sjames commented

Hi,

sorry I'm responding so late to your question.

yes, we took the bluemarine theme and hacked it to make a custom theme.
it's a matter of changing the css.

susan

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mohi commented

I have installed Jquery, But how to get rounded corner using jquery.

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outofthegallery commented

Does anyone know how to get around using the video size width and video size height and video length in seconds? Is there any way to override these fields so that they dont need to be specified each time and the size stays the same each time and seconds are automatically detected?