By hipsonfire on

I Know there is a lot of questions like this, but I would appreciate any help.
Im building a paid membership website, where I will be uploading and displaying videos. This videos will be streamlined and not downloadable.
Is drupal right for this ?? or Wordpress better ??or something else??

If drupal is right, can you tell me which modules I should consider??
I will have the order of >500 videos at some point and hopefully >200 members.. or so.
I want to have all the videos well categorized and accessible and provide with playlist or favorites for the members.

Any help is appreciated.
I know programming but no php and Im not familiar with all this cms systems.
Thanks in advance

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grandchamp_g’s picture

grandchamp_g commented

Don't know if this will work for you but check this post out, http://drupal.org/node/428642 and this module http://drupal.org/project/flashvideo

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

There's also streaming support in the http://drupal.org/project/swftools module.

WebNewCastle’s picture

WebNewCastle commented

First of all, if anyone here tells you to use something other than Drupal, we may have to bring out the tar and feathers. :-) Ok, I am just kidding, but really just about anything can be done well with Drupal.

So one other option you can consider, especially if you don't have resources such as a dedicated server would be to use a module that works in conjunction with a service - such as Kaltura. Or, it may work for you to use something like the Video Upload module which would allow videos to be uploaded through your site and displayed there, but hosted on YouTube.

Regardless of what specific solution you use for the video (hosting yourself, hosting elsewhere), other aspects such as categorization can be handled separately. That is, your options for how to handle categorization, as an example, shouldn't be limited or dependent on the video portion. Drupal comes with a great Taxonomy system as well as many other contributed modules that you can leverage for categorization in many different ways.

For something like Favorites, you probably have a number of options as well. One potential solution would be to use the Flag module.