Blue Droplet Video
Blue Droplet Video and Storage API, along with Drupal and its 4000+ contributed modules, is the premier solution for publishing video on the web.
Submitted videos are transcoded to Flash format so they can be viewed directly in the web browser. Transcoding either occurs locally on the website's server using FFmpeg, or using the paid transcoding service at Blue Droplet Media.
There is a showcase of sites that deploy it.
Latest snapshot now uses Flowplayer instead of JW FLV Media Player. Make sure you have installed and enabled the Flowplayer module before upgrading (not the Flowplayer module in SWF Tools).
Features
- High quality H.264 encoding - demo
- Auto generation of preview images
- Fullscreen mode
- High codec compatibility
- Play statistics collection
- Highly configurable, e.g. dimensions, bitrate, frames per second, etc.
- RSS video podcasting - for Miro / iTunes
- Embedding of videos on other websites - not yet ported to D6
- Amazon S3
- Actions integration can be used to automatically publish a node upon successful transcoding.
- Acquisition from URL - this saves a lot of time when a video is already on the web.
There is also a YouTube Syndication module that needs to be ported to D6.
Module integration
- Storage API (required)
- CCK (required)
- Views - with configurable preview image sizes (demo)
- Token / Custom Links - have video info under the node, e.g. duration, download link.
- Feed API / Feed Element Mapper - aggregate video feeds on your site (very cool - check out Planet Drupal TV).
- Node import - not yet ported to D6
- Services - not yet ported to D6
For community support, get involved using the links below. Feel free to help with documentation - anyone with a drupal.org account can edit it.
Please contribute back any improvements you make to the module, so everyone can benefit.
For Drupal 5, this module had a different project.
There is a video group for keeping up to date with broader happenings in the world of Drupal video.
Blue Droplet Video is managed, maintained and largely written by Blue Droplet Media. We offer the following services related to our module:
- Consultancy
- Deployment
- Improving our module in an open-outsourcing manner
- Custom functionality
- Support
Use our contact form for any enquiries.
Releases
| Development snapshots | Date | Size | Links | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-1.x-dev | 2009-Nov-20 | 31.37 KB | Download · Release notes | Development snapshot |  |
