Little help handling video.

Posted by tommyent on July 9, 2009 at 9:20pm

Suggestions. The most I do with video is embed some blip.tv or youtue videos

So any advice would be greatly appreciated.

1. Content to expire after given time
2. Current hostgator hosting does not seem to cut it for video (reseller)
3. Content to be paid for
4. The webinars are in WMV

1. I believe this can be done with ubercart.
2. I was thinking Amazon S3 storage because the tests I have done with hostgator have not been good and with it being paid content I would like as few bandwidth issues as possible. Have also been thinking of moving the whole site.
3. Ubercart again.
4. Convert to FLV?

I have been using the video module but was wondering about Mediamover, or filefield and jquery media or any other options.

Thanks in advance

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Posted by WorldFallz on July 10, 2009 at 1:41am

I would definitely consider using flv format and either the http://drupal.org/project/swftools or http://drupal.org/project/flashvideo modules.

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I actually just was playing

Posted by tommyent on July 10, 2009 at 4:19am

I actually just was playing around with the flashvideo module.

With the S3 plugin it seems to be a perfect fit the problem now is there is no ffmpeg support on the shared hosting plan my client is on.
WMV format has been the biggest issue for me

WMV format is only good for

Posted by mm167 on July 10, 2009 at 4:29am

WMV format is only good for LAN/ intranet.
for internet, only acceptable format is FLV.

tell us more about your biz module (if this is a biz) ...say,
1. upload before format conversion? or conversion then upload?
2. where / host the video files? in Youtube (or youtube like free services)? AWS (S3)?
3. payment scheme? pay by minute?

Dont ask in technical way. Ask in biz way.

U need a biz answer. Not a technical answer.

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http://www.drupalway.com

I have a client who does

Posted by tommyent on July 10, 2009 at 1:07pm

I have a client who does gotowebinars they are encoded using their codec (G2M3) when he records these he has the option to convert them to WMV files after the recording is done which he has been doing.

So now I have a bunch of these WMV recordings that he would like to offer a his clients for a specified amount of time.

So here is what I know

1. I will be using Amazon S3 (or similar service) because it will be paid content so downtime is not really an option

2. I have been trying like hell to convert these files but have not been all that successful. He is currently on a shared hosting plan so ffmpeg is out (atleast where he is). So currently I am limited to conversion then upload. I unfortunately have the Mac version of Adobe encoder so it doesn't seem to do WMV files. I have tried a bunch of other ones and either the quality is destroyed or they don't work.

3. Payment. Well he has requested to offer a 30 day pass to one of the recordings and has mentioned another pass at a higher cost for access to 3 recordings for 30 days. I was thinking a role that expires.

Thanks guys

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Posted by WorldFallz on July 10, 2009 at 2:13pm

Shared hosting is definitely going to be problematic wrt video conversion. What about loading ffmpeg on the mac (google it there's plenty of howtos) and doing the conversions that way? It's flexible enough that you should be able to figure out settings for decent quality flv output.

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I was considering this but

Posted by tommyent on July 10, 2009 at 3:40pm

I was considering this but put it off. I was trying to set it up so I was not the only one capable of converting it.

Thanks I actually think I am going to go try it out now.