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:

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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