Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Can someone tell me how this module is different from the FlashVideo module? Thanks.
Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Can someone tell me how this module is different from the FlashVideo module? Thanks.
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Stuart Greenfield commentedFlashVideo lets users upload a file, then it will convert it via FFMPEG, and then it uses its own [video] tag to output it.
SWF Tools will output an flv video on to a page in the player of your choice, so you have to create the flv first.
What's interesting is that FlashVideo says it can accept a file, convert it, and then put it in a CCK filefield, along with a thumbnail. I've never tried this, but you could use FlashVideo to do the conversion, and then use the new CCK features in SWF Tools to output the movie in FlowPlayer (which isn't supported natively by FlashVideo).
So, the answer is that they do "similar" things, but they do it in slightly different ways, and the key difference is that FlashVideo can do video conversion which SWF Tools cannot.