Hello there,
Is there anyway to embed third party videos with filefield?
Many thanks

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quicksketch’s picture

quicksketch
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CreditAttribution: quicksketch commented
Status: Active » Fixed

What you're describing is the *exact* goal of the media.module project. It will never be possible to reference external sources with FileField as it is currently written. Media module is not ready for production use though, so the only realistic option currently is to set up a second field with an Embedded Media Field.

I would mark this "by design" or "won't fix", but it would remove it from the queue.

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Delta Bridges CreditAttribution: Delta Bridges commented

Thank you for your prompt answer, I will set up another field with emfield for now :)
The Media Module project sounds extremely interesting, what a great community Drupal is!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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kris_mcl CreditAttribution: kris_mcl commented

Hi, I know this is an old thread. However, I have a site where I'm using filefield to upload some files (images and/or videos), but I'd like to also be able to mix in some third party (YouTube/Vimeo) videos with them.
Right now I'm using Embedded Media Field for the third party videos, and I'm unable to combine the embedded media with the uploaded media.
Currently, the uploaded media are all output as a group, then the embedded media are output as a group. I need to be able to have something like this, where I can mix the 2 groups together:

[uploaded file 1]
[uploaded file 2]
[embedded video 1]
[uploaded file 3]
[embedded video 2]

Any suggestions on how this could be accomplished, or even just a place to start? I'm definitely looking forward to Media module in D7, but this site is built in D6.

Thanks in advance for any help!

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bjornmeansbear CreditAttribution: bjornmeansbear commented

You could build a view that combined them.
In the manage fields area of your content type you can set the upload fields and the third party video fields to not actually display in normal node view.
Then place a block created from your view that combines the two field types into the node instead.