[support] Video in Drupal 7

[Alex Adams]

John,

Good thoughts.  I am using Drupal to build an app that is part digital asset
management, part knowledge management and part augmented cognition.  The
digital asset management requires the storage of all kinds of documents and
media as well as the ability to display as many as possible.  So I need to
do both.  Store the iterations of the video files that are then hosted with
YouTube or some other video host.

Got to have it all.

Thanks,
-- 
Alex Adams

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A2 Technology Partners, Inc.
831-724-1397
alex at a2technology.com
www.a2technology.com



From: John Saward <john at also.com.au>
Reply-To: <support at drupal.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 07:44:43 +1000
To: <support at drupal.org>
Subject: Re: [support] Video in Drupal 7

Perhaps also, step back a moment and ask yourself whether or not hosting the
videos directly on the site, by whatever method, is necessarily the best
decision to take. 

Each situation is unique but I do find strong arguments for hosting and
delivering videos via a third party video hosting service.

It might be worth considering, especially if the solution via custom content
type and one of the video delivery modules cannot fall into place without
inordinate effort.


On 05/06/2011, at 3:31 AM, Alex Adams wrote:

> I¹m new to Drupal and am working with Drupal 7.  I¹ve created a custom content
> type to store videos.  I have the Media and Video modules installed.  I seem
> to have 2 options for working with video.
> 
> First I used the Video module.  It uploads and plays okay provided the file is
> less than 8 MB.  I have changed the variable to 50 MB in the setup  section,
> but it continues to only handle <8 MB.  It also throws errors when the node is
> displayed in summary or full view, even though the video is displayed and
> plays.
> 
> Second I tried the multimedia option for the Media module set for video.
> There are fewer settings.  It goes through the process of uploading I think,
> but there nothing displayed for the video, just a question mark icon.
> 
> It seems that the Video module is the best choice, but it is in early alpha
> for 7.x and has some problems.
> 
> Does anyone have any other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Alex Adams
> 
> hawkVision ‹ see the elephant for what it is
> A2 Technology Partners, Inc.
> 831-724-1397
> alex at a2technology.com <x-msg://302/alex@a2technology.com>
> www.a2technology.com <http://www.a2technology.com>
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