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How to make a "download video" link?

Project:Blue Droplet Video
Version:6.x-1.1
Component:Miscellaneous
Category:support request
Priority:minor
Assigned:jbrown
Status:active

Issue Summary

Hi,

maybe someone could explain how to make a "download video" link?
Like on planetdrupal tv.

Did not find it in the documentation.
But would love to have this.
I don't like the idea to add file_field and then upload again video just for downloads.

Thank you!

Comments

#1

Title:download video link» How to make a "download video" link?
Category:task» support request
Assigned to:Anonymous» jbrown
Status:active» fixed

BDV exposes various tokens (including a download link) to Token. These can be used by Custom links.

Create a new custom link and set title to [field_video-download-link] and enable 'Title uses HTML'.

This is how it was done on planetdrupal.tv .

#2

Great, thanks for sharing this!

#3

Status:fixed» closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

#4

Hello

I've done what jbrown outlined but when I click the "download" text below the video, it points to

http://mysite.com/system/storage_api/serve/

and no download occurs. Is there something else I need to do? Thank you

#5

Status:closed (fixed)» active

Hello I thought I would add on to my previous post above.

For videos that have skipped transcoding (i.e. "Video is Flash-ready" option is ticked on upload), when I click the "download" text below the video, it points to
http://mysite.com/system/storage_api/serve/
and no download occurs.

For other videos uploaded normally, the trick does work though.