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By Moz_D on
I'm new to Drupal, but I've managed to get most things done fine: calendars, forums, etc. However when it comes to embedding video, why is it so hard ? Or why isn't there a simple module ? I've tried several modules and gone through lots on online tutorials to help, but none seem to work. Isn't there a simple way to do it ? It was so easy with Joomla, until a bug of theirs took too many hours to solve and put me off. I would really appreciate someone writing something simple. Any advice ? All ideas welcome. Thank you.
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Re: Why is it so difficult to embed video on Drupal ??
As far as I know, the simplest way to embed a video is to paste the html and then set the input filter to "Full HTML". Here's a short article that describes it - http://www.thesitewizard.com/general/embed-video-in-drupal.shtml
Of course there are tons of modules to do the same thing. Can't agree that it's very difficult :-(
Thank you for your reply and
Thank you for your reply and for the link.
I had a look, but it tells me to use YouTube. Can't I just put my video into a file on my site and run it from there ? Your suggestion means I'd be dependent on another site which I have no control over and it seems like rather a long-winded way of going about things. Can't I just put in a block with my video running from my site ? Shouldn't that be simple ?
Re: Thank you for your reply and
Serving video files from a third party site actually makes the process a lot simpler. But since you are insisting on serving files from local servers, watch this screencast - http://drupaltherapy.com/node/50. Because you are new to Drupal, it might not appear very straight forward though :-(
Video
Ironically that link now (four years later) shows why we do not want to host on third party sites. I went there and the video has been removed by the third party host so the information is no longer available yet drupaltherapy.com is still up trying to serve the now broken video.
The irony :)
The irony :)
Contact me to contract me for D7 -> D10/11 migrations.
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These days I find the http://drupal.org/project/swftools module to be the easiest and most flexible way to quickly add flv video and mp3s to a site.
Thank you
Thank you very much for your replies. It's not easy being a novice; the video was most helpful.