Configuring Video Module

Last updated November 4, 2010. Created by heshan.lk on November 4, 2010.
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Now that Video module is installed, it's time to configure it from Admin > Settings > Video (admin/settings/video). Configuration is split into tabs:
General

These options allow you to control how the Video module acts.

Players

Each video extension, has a Drop down choice for the type of player to be used for the video, when selecting SWF Player or FLV Flash Players, a radio list will appear with a choice of Flash players. If you are using Zencoder/Amazon S3 configuration please use Flowplayer *without* Flowplayer enabled in SWF Tools as they share the same folder name and will conflict.

Transcoders

On the transcoder page you have a choice of three built in transcoders, if you would like to use ffmpeg_wrapper module, you can do so from here, otherwise you will be using FFMPEG or Zencoder.

FFMPEG and FFMPEG Wrapper both will use locally installed FFMPEG so, it is REQUIRED (ffmpeg.org/) to have installed the FFMPEG on your server, FFMPEG will only have basic options but for advanced FFMPEG like watermarking etc I prefer the FFMPEG Wrapper. FFMPEG is processor intensive and you will need to have fast server and lot of resources to handle FFMPEG properly, so if you need light weight, fast way to convert videos or if your in a shared hosting you can use Zencoder transcoding API. Zencoder is a award winning video delivery platform. www.zencoder.com/

Configure Zencoder : video.heidisoft.com/documentation/configure-zencoder

Metadata

Metadata is particularly useful in video, where information about its contents (such as transcripts of conversations and text descriptions of its scenes) are not directly understandable by a computer, but where efficient search is desirable. To extract metadata from video we are using FLVTools2, so we strongly recommend you to install FLVTools2. github.com/unnu/flvtool2, once you successfully install module just check the Enable Meta Data check box

Required Install : github.com/unnu/flvtool2

CRON Settings

Cron setting to convert videos, this will use Drupal cron if you enable it from here, it is easy for testing but not for products, for the production we highly recommend you to set up crontab for video_scheduler.php as below. You can find that file in the video directory.

The crontab should look something like this:

Note that the video_scheduler doesn't produce any output and cannot be called from the web. It will, however, put some information in the watchdog.

You can use Drush too, video module is compatible with Drush, this means you can just drop the video module within the module directory like any other module, enable it and the video-scheduler command is available, nothing extra to do in the setup.

Amazon S3 settings

In order to enable the Amazon S3 service, you must have already signed up or sign-up here (aws.amazon.com/s3/), enter your Access Key ID, Secret Access Key (available from AWS - Amazon Web Service). Create a bucket name, we suggest you to have "sitename.drupal.video". Clicking the Save Configuration will store your details for later use.

Enable the Amazon S3 service to use with video module.