Installing Video Module - Drupal 6

At its core, the Video module is a field and handler for CCK; it enhances CCK and Filefield to provide video uploading, video transcoding (local ffmpeg default), video thumbnail creation and selection; and choice of playback method per format.

Additional features for Video module include: Zencoder transcoding integration, Amazon S3 integration and attaching FTP'd file to nodes.
Other modules which Video module integrates with are; SWF Tools and Flowplayer (use these if you need more video player options).

Required Modules

Enhancement Modules

Once you have installed and configured CCK, Filefield and a video player (optional) you can then install Video module from the module administration page (Administer > Site building > Modules).

Configure Zencoder for Video Module - Drupal 6

This module will need to have public IP to your development server, once you submit a job then Zencoder with postback some info to you once

Configuring Video Module - Drupal 6

Now that Video module is installed, it's time to configure it from Admin > Settings > Video (admin/settings/video). Configuration is split

Create Video Content Type - Drupal 6

In order for you or your users to start uploading video using Video Module, you must add a Video as a content type on your site.

Guide maintainers

hypertext200's picture