By thejerk on

The URL is http://www.friendlyjerk.com

Running the new video.module, and uploaded a video as a test.

Questions:

1. How do I do it so that when a person clicks the link, it goes straight to playing the video. I prefer not to have all those options above the video. Is there a way to get rid of them and just have it play normally like most other video sites? A simple of version of say this page: http://www.dumpalink.com/c/Movies

2. How can I put a thumbnail on the frontpage that links to the video, instead of a blog style post?

Thank you!

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seaneffel commented

We are using that same module for our web video programming, and we grappled with this same question. We decided it was rude to dump visitors into a page and start a video playing without their choosing, for viewers who needed only to read the text or were returning to learn something more about the piece. We preferred individuals to initiate the play or the download on their own terms.

But the technical answer to your question is something like this. Your video page has a link like mysite.com/node/131 which will show us the viewing page and you'll see that the play button looks like mysite.com/node/131/play. There are ways to alias this using the taxonomy.module or hard coding the change, which if you can't do then talk to the maker of the module quickly before the next Drupal version is published. He's a great guy and has helped us out a lot. Look at this thred:

http://drupal.org/node/25230

Sean
Cambridge Community Television
http://www.cctvcambridge.org

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thejerk commented

Thanks for the reply.