Just a though would not be better, with many social video services popping up every week, a generic CCK embed video module would be more allround solution

to handle all embed features into CCK, like

Revver, iFilm, Yahoo Video, MSN live video, MetaCafe, blipTV, Vimeo, vSocial, MojoFlix, AOL Uncut, Grouper...

rather than some one creates for a module for each of those?
I wonder your module can be rolled into a such module if you consider as a feature
that also youl be useful if a desired video not exist on You?Tube but avaliabe on say on AOL uncut can use the same module /CCK field

thanks

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you may want to look at the coolfilter.module. you could allow this filter to only be used on a specific CCK node. while it is not exactly what you are asking for in this thread, it may provide for you a workable solution.

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meant to post a link to the coolfilter.module http://drupal.org/node/61357 check out its description

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possibly you misunderstood me :) -great nick -btw

your idea is great as a CCK video embed field - i can not download it yet and give it a go- which is more clear than coolfilter for this purpose, as in coolfilter is a filter which is confusing for ordinary user to insert to body of a post such as below

[coolplayer width="640" height="480"]
/mp3/song2.mp3
/flash/flashgame5.swf
<a href="http://www.vsocial.com/video/?d=5255">Bugs bunny cartoon on family guy</a>
<a width="480" height="420" href="http://www.youtube.com/w/funny-as-hell?v=rPw-BwnW7Qs">Funny as hell</a>
[/coolplayer]

but if there is a CCK field for this purpose its clearer to copy from the embed field from the video provider site and paste THE embed -its a CCK field so se the site develper can also add an how to secription under it- field in the post they are submitting

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you posted the embeded table code above

[coolplayer]
http://www.redbalcony.com/?vid=19865
[/coolplayer]

would have been a far better example and is far more simple to use even for a standard new user, could be added to the available filtered HTML input format. Especpially if the description is added to the field to explain to a user to post the URL between the coolplayer filter codes. I would also venture a guess, it would be far easier to tie into a WYSIWYG editor, or into a BBcode button.

either way, I was offering it up as a possibility, if not for you than to someone else who may stumble on this thread, or even for the developers of CCK to look into a possible integretion of sorts if needed.

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just saw this released today http://drupal.org/project/youtube_cck
while it is not a one video fits all solution as you've requested, it is the start of one for youtube.

Personally I think it would be a maintainers nightmare to try and incorporate "every" possible video site into one module in one field, without making a field in the module for every possible video site which would be a mess IMO.

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-LAM- did not realize this issue was in the youtube CCK modules issue query thought I was in CCK's issue query. my apologies.

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I would also venture a guess, it would be far easier to tie into a WYSIWYG editor, or into a BBcode button.

Personally I think it would be a maintainers nightmare to try and incorporate "every" possible video site into one module in one field, without making a field in the module for every possible video site which would be a mess IMO.

I dont think it will be messy on the contarory it can be more clear if the settings allow the site admin configure the choosen video service fields -a la- (as you gave it in your example to tie into a WYSIWYG editor, or into a BBcode button -or BuEditor way predefined field for default video services

imho- an allrounder CCK video services embed module as such, would be more comprehensive and smarter solution

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You may want to take a look at the embed module as well, greggles is working on porting it to 5 and it also handles ifilm and nowpublic.
Lsabug

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Thank you, my request for the youtube.module was not for a personal need, it's a general idea for all community. i'll check the embed module you mentioned when its updated though

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I'm going to start looking into all these various options suggested here. I have need of this, but I understand that there is now a desire to seperate the file upload aspect from the mediaplayer (with Media Field CCK type) - which I thik is a fine solution or uploaded video.

However, third party video services are a different story. I think in this case it makes sense to add support for video sites one at a time, and use a little dropdown widget to differentiate.

It's a far easier interface than asking a user to learn a special filter for your site - even if it is in th help text, and in an Ideal world we could get a little regex recognition so we could eventually just have a 'Paste the URL of your video field' The module can identify it fromt he URL, and then output the proper embed code.

So, +1 towards integrating more third party video services. I have a two clients that will need this in the next month so I'm assigning to myself.

P.S. with mediafield & this you can have a 1-2-knockout video solution. Upload a video -or- paste a URL... add an onsubmit - if uploaded, then coolfilter into a hidden text field for the player....

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in an Ideal world we could get a little regex recognition so we could eventually just have a 'Paste the URL of your video field' The module can identify it fromt he URL, and then output the proper embed code.

It seems that the module Googtube can do this : "Googtube allows users to embed Youtube and Google Videos. When users post a url to videos on either of the two sites, the link is automatically converted to embed code." http://drupal.org/project/googtube
It could help but it's not available for Drupal 5

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this now does that with youtube videos (extracts video code from embed code or url); i plan next to integrate google video in the same way. difference w/ this module is it includes the 3rd party video as a cck field, so you have the power of cck behind it (multiple videos in a node, integration with views, etc.)

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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

this feature is now relatively mature at video cck. closing this issue and directing people there, as it's beyond the scope of this now-defunct module.

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aaron, thank you for considering the generic CCK video embed idea instead of featuring a single service. I appeciate your work on it with the new module, it gives a wonderful allround solution for all video services, and yet another edge to Drupal on this scope.