video

Here are some notes I pulled together for a discussion on using videoblogging with Drupal for Drupal Camp LA.

Some Questions

• Who is audience for your video content? How will they use it? (e.g., browsing political video archives vs. searching demo reels for video production teams).
• Who will post? User submitted? Admins or members? Access/permissions on Javascript and embeds.
• Who will host? Hosting services or your own?
• What formats do you need/want to support? Transcoding services?
• What kind of (meta)data do you wish to collect? Embeds vs. CCK. License info.
• What version of Drupal are you running?

Some Approaches

• Cut and paste code from sites like Archive, YouTube or blip.tv

Here is the code from an archive.org page Flash player. They are using FlowPlayer. I've cleaned up the spacing and changed the url's from relative to absolute. The extra space in the code's "flowplayerdiv " div id attribute is to ensure that there is only one "flowplayerdiv" div on this page. Remove the space if you copy the code.