By bcobin on

How would one go about creating a video gallery like this?

The whole idea is to avoid taking the user to a separate page, by having the selected video play in the embedded player.

I've used both FlashVideo and Blue Droplet Video, as well as SlideShowPro (which is images only), but I haven't seen a way to reproduce this particular functionality in Drupal. I assume javascript would be involved - any ideas? Thanks!

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3cwebdev’s picture

3cwebdev commented

You might want to check out the Dash Player module. It provides an integrated video/audio player that uses Views to generate the Play List. You can find info and instructions on the author's site: http://www.tmtdigital.com/project/dash_player

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mikerz commented

The best way is for each thumbnail to have an onClick() where it makes a call into flash, with whatever variables are needed. All you need to figure out on the drupal side is custom javascript click functionality tied in to views -- any ideas on this? This is something I'm also interested in.

Another way, if you don't want to make calls into flash, is to append a javascript entry with query string to the url -- whateveryoururl.com/videos/#/video?q=dmlkZW89aHR0cDovL3d3dy55b3Vyc2l0ZS5jb20vc2l0ZXMvZGVmYXVsdC9maWxlcy95b3VyZmlsZS5mbHYmaW1hZ2U9aHR0cDovL3d3dy55b3Vyc2l0ZS5jb20vc2l0ZXMvZGVmYXVsdC9maWxlcy95b3VydGh1bWJuYWlsLmpwZw==

which contains whatever flashvars you want, and configure the player to use ExternalInterface

*I'm assuming in writing this that you have the capability of developing the embedded player.