Hi.

Congratulation for this work.
I've recently been playing with some modules allowing to display HTML5 videos.
a. mediafront module http://www.mediafront.org/
b. html5_video module, still in development http://drupal.org/node/803312
c. VFE (no tested yet)

Short feedbacks:
Mediafront module
Mediafront works well. It allows fare more then just displaying HTML5 videos. This module heavily relays on Jquery 1.4.. Also my tests show it works with minors bugs, there seems to be some issues playing on certain mobile devices --> http://drupal.org/node/803312. This module could be an answer for someone having the need of a global media management solution with one module and it's sub-modules, and who would mind to heavily relay on javascript.

html5_video module
The aim of this module is to format a video uploaded to a CCK file_field as an HTML5 video with a fallback to Flash for unsupported browsers. It does this without any JavaScript.
I've found the module very easy to use. It relays on CCK as a file field. At this stage the module is still buggy.
michaek made an interesting comment after having tested vfe and comparing it with html5_video module. Read its comment on: http://drupal.org/node/803312#comment-3243948

VFE
Also I install vfe module I haven't spent time yet to testing it. michaelk comment suggest vfe has an interesting approach (see previous link).
Of course the vfe project page mention Please note that this module is in early development and should not be used on production sites! At this stage my question is: Is vfe module already stable enough to anticipate a release time?

Also michaelk might share with us it's tests on vfe?

Many thanks,

Jean

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heylookalive commented
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Hi,

This is a great roundup of solutions, thanks for your time putting this together :)

I've had a look at referenced links and agree that mediafront does have merit but takes a fairly different approach to implementing video, the goal of video for everybody is to avoid the need for technologies like Javascript and Flash. With html5_video, kmadel's work is very close to something I did early on with video for everybody (prior to code release), as the original aim was to use cck fields as opposed to a content type on video for everybody, and something I will return to. There is a difference in his approach to implementing video for everybody which seems to reduce the code served which is good by detecting the clients browser, but runs into caching issues because of this - and has the knock on effect of requiring modifications to core. In any case I do have an issue in the queue from him so will be talking to him soon ;)

To answer your question on when there will be a stable release, my aim is to have the code base solid (there are a few bugs to take care of), once at this point I will release and maintain as needed. I will also be forking development as there seems to be a split on approach, the current way that implements a content type, and then a new branch which implements a cck field method.

Thanks,
Alli.

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jlbretton commented

Hi Alli,
Sorry for this very late reply.
Many thanks for your explanations. Yes the caching issue seems recurring in d6. Are your vfe plans proceeding as expected?
thanks,
Jluc