Thumbnails for Custom Video Field
MacDennis - July 15, 2009 - 20:11
| Project: | Embedded Media Field |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Embedded Video Field |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | needs work |
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Description
I'm using flowplayer 3.11 to play my .flv but the won't show up.
I see the loading rotating image and then nothing. What's wrong with it?
Any idea's? Using Drupal 6
#1
If you give a demonstration of what you're doing, or maybe some code of how you're doing it, I might be able to help.
#2
Sorry!
Here is my demo: http://85.17.204.75/~ljjp/index.php?q=node/71
In the example is works fine:
http://85.17.204.75/~ljjp/sites/all/modules/flowplayer/flowplayer/exampl...
#3
First of all, awesome video. Second of all, it doesn't really look like the settings from Flowplayer around being passed. Although the HTML is there, the Javascript isn't there. What code are you using to display this?
Thanks,
Rob
#4
Rob,
I don't use any code...the module should do this automaticly right?
Or what code do I need to use?
#5
If you use Embedded Media Field with the custom URL and have Flowplayer enabled, it will use Flowplayer to display the FLV ;-) .
#6
Great! And how can I get Thumbnails with it?
I need Thumbnails for the movie overview page.
#7
I'm not entirely sure you can get a thumbnail for the custom video field. Maybe use autoplay instead? Moving this over to Embedded Media Field for a feature request for the thumbnails.
#8
The only way to get thumbnails from a custom video is using FFMPEG. (I'd suggest Media Mover if you want to go that route).
However, using Embedded Media Field, you can at least install and configure Embedded Media Thumbnail (packaged with the module), which allows you to upload a thumbnail to be associated with a video. Although we may need to send that as a parameter to Flow Player (this is already done w/ JW FLV Player in the case of YouTube).
#9
Ah, I haven't had a look at Embedded Media Thumbnail yet. Passing the thumbnail off to Flowplayer shouldn't be hard as we just have to give it a style of "background-image:url(THUMBNAIL/IMAGE/HERE.png)".
#10
+1 for thumbnails from custom URLs. I've seen sites that do this... They use direct file links and yet still they can generate thumbnails. I thought JW player had this ability because that's what they were using.
Will this ever be possible with embedded media field?
#11
jw flv player does this now. i'll see if i can add it to the flowplayer support...
#12
i do not see how to specify a splash image for flowplayer. note that you can already set the display for image -> player, which in effect replicates http://flowplayer.org/demos/installation/splash-image.html so that should work for folks until we have a more stable solution.
#13
"jw flv player does this now. i'll see if i can add it to the flowplayer support..."
Do you mean it can generate thumbnails from a direct video file URL with EM Video field, or that it supports uploading a prefabricated image as a thumbnail through Embedded Media Thumbnail?
#14
both -- Embedded Media Thumbnail will automatically make local copies of remote thumbnails, for use w/ JW Flv Media Player, Imagecache, etc.
#15
Sorry about not responding to this. Regarding Flowplayer, there's #551242: Splash support. I haven't gotten around to adding in the $contents argument to the API yet. Maybe tomorrow.
Thanks!
#16
I must be completely misunderstanding this thread, because under "Custom URL configuration" is says...
This is a list of the current state of support for the following features by Custom URL:
Thumbnails: No
Autoplay: Yes
RSS attachment: No
I'm using the latest version as of Oct 28th. Where am I going wrong here?
#17
@mitylite: it will not automatically create derivative thumbnails: you would need to use media mover or other solution using ffmpeg to do that. however, if you use Embedded Media Thumbnail in conjunction with any provider (including custom url videos), you can associate your own uploaded image with a movie.