Drupal Media Management
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 20:51
I conducted this interview a few months ago at DrupalCampNYC. Arthur Foelsche from Civic Actions talks about the future of Drupal modules that assist with the publishing of rich media. Arthur is the lead developer of the Media Mover module, XSPF Playlist, FLV Media Player and others that greatly assist with the publishing of video on Drupal sites.
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I've got Drupal 6.3 and have a large .AVI file that I'd like to stream into a Page.
The supporting video module doesn't seem to be ready yet for 6.3 so I've spent days trying to find a "work around".
I can use the Insert Flash component that comes with fckEdit and it does show an embedded window with controls but locks up the displayed page until all the .avi file is loaded and then just starts playing.
I also get YouTube to work just fine - and that's what I'd like the Flash component to do - stream and wait there with the big arrow until the reader clicks it.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
I believe, and I may be wrong, that if you want the file to stream that it will need to be encoded as .flv (which is flash) or .h264 (which is quicktime). I post anything I want to stream as .flv since there is much more support for embedded flash than quicktime.
I'm on a PC and I use a tool called Swish Video (http://www.swishzone.com/index.php?area=products&product=video) for all of my .flv conversions. If your file is less than 100MB you can use a free service at http://zamzar.com to convert the file for you. A paid account there allows you to convert bigger file sizes.
Rob Safuto
Well I'm up and running - I downloaded the program Camtasia Studio 5 which is just fantastic and it produces Flash files that seem to do the job. I just click the Flash icon in fckEditor on a page and this works just fine.
This program is fantastic - it captures everything on a screen if you want to playback later.
Glad to hear it. Camtasia is a fantastic program. I use it to produce all of my Drupal screencasts.
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