For your upload problems, see here:

http://drupal.org/node/97193

If you are doing the video conversions on your own, then media will work. If you want the server to encode the videos for you, then the video module is what you are looking for, but you also need to have a server configured with FFMPEG to actually do the encoding. Some hosts offer this. On VPS or dedicated servers, it can be a pain to set up, especially if you want one of the more recent releases of FFMPEG.
Jamie Holly
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On 6/4/2011 1:31 PM, Alex Adams wrote:
Video in Drupal 7 I’m new to Drupal and am working with Drupal 7.  I’ve 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,
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Alex Adams

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