Posted by glass.dimly on October 9, 2009 at 5:07pm
Hey all,
I'd like random users to be able to publish a video to youtube, blip, or whatever other service, and then we'd suck those videos into video galleries on our site.
What service should I use for that, and how would I have folks tag or sort their information so that we could grab it and create galleries in the same way I'd use emfield to suck in Flickr galleries or something.
Any ideas are useful, and if this isn't feasible, the main thing is that users could submit videos and then publish them to our site. Also let me know if this is not feasible within the current Drupal modules or 3rd party services.
Thanks for the advice!
Categories: 3rd party, third-party, video, video gallery
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Media
Media
Dev since July...
Thanks for the advice. But one question: Media has no regular release, and there has been no development on the D6 version since July. Doesn't seem very active to me. Why Media over Embedded Media Field?
I'm still looking for advice on this, as with Media the user has to upload a video to say, youtube, then create content on my site and paste a link into the Media field. I'd like to reduce that to one step.
Last time I checked (D5), Drupal's video upload modules were difficult to use and configure, and, of course, require massive bandwidth.
You may have noticed that
You may have noticed that aaron maintains both modules. I don't want to speak for him, but I think the primary goal for the sprints and GSoC work done over the summer on Media was to get PHP Stream Wrappers in Drupal 7 core. With that accomplishment under his belt, the focus of the upcoming Monster Media Sprint is back on Media.
Do you mean you want to
Do you mean you want to automatically embed videos posted on third party sites, or do you mean you want users posting videos on your sites be uploaded to third party sites?
For the former you want to use some combination of FeedAPI and EMField. Not sure if there's really anything for the latter yet.
The former,
thank you, do you have any advice on the third party provider side?
See, the thing is...
...that if I'm going to suck stuff off of a 3rd party site from strangers who follow instructions, it'll need to be organized or tagged on that site in some specific way.
The main question, for me, is how to get that sort of organization on a 3rd party video site that is compatible with emfield, or other modules, so that I can get just what others have uploaded via a link that I provide, such that it all goes into one RSS feed that I can grab?
Varies from site to site. You
Varies from site to site. You need to find out if there's an RSS field you can grab. There is one for youtube (you can set the feed to be by tags for instance), but it's limited to a certain number of videos, so you can only go back so far.
Importing youtube videos actually work pretty well with emfield and feedapi.
I'm sure it's possible to do with other sites if you learn how to use emfield and feedapi (and feedapi elements, and other helper modules as necessary).
How did it go for you..
glass? I am up to doing both approaches you mentioned earlier.. Any words of wisdom?