By crashdummy06 on

Good afternoon all,
I am new to Drupal, but loving every second of it. I have searched to forums and have researched how to properly embed flash video, however I can't seem to find instructions to accomplish my sepcific task. I have installed Drupal 6.17, and added the flashvideo module, as well as the swftools module. What I'm trying to accomplish is on my front page to have an area near the bottom reserved for embeded flash video. However, I want the video to randomly select from a pool of flv files I have loaded on my server and automatically play each time the front page is visited. These videos are informational videos on some of the products I will be selling, thus why I want it to be random on each page load. If anyone can point me to the right documentation, module(s), support, etc. so that I can accomplish this, it would be greatly appreciated.

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

I will start by assuming each video is in a node.

We will use the views module to randomly select a video.

If all your videos are in one content type and you can use any published video that should get you going.

If you want to only select from a subset of the video nodes I would use node queue, in this case the view would need a relationship on the node queue.

I would make a block view, use/add a region in the theme that is at the bottom of the page there and add the block to that region.

mcfilms’s picture

mcfilms commented

I think Views would be the way to go if the videos were to be uploaded through the Drupal UI and nodes were created. But since you mention these videos are already uploaded to a folder, you might want to investigate Dynamic Display Blocks. http://drupal.org/project/ddblock

Although it is primarily used for randomizing the display of still images, it also can randomize the video. Here is an example: http://www.themeshark.com/demo/smooth/

A list of some of the Drupal sites I have designed and/or developed can be viewed at motioncity.com

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yosemite commented

try views and panels but you will have to make each video a node(page)