Create Video node programmatically

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Posted by Airborn on August 2, 2013 at 8:11am

Dear,

I would like to ask for some help regarding the topic mentioned in the title. My objective is to record a video through a webcam and pass it somehow to the Video module and create a Video node out of it. I can already upload videos to the module and transcode it through Zencoder and I'm already solved the recording part with the "Media: Webcam" module (https://drupal.org/project/media_webcam) but I don't know how to connect those two and pass the recorded video to the Video module.

Can you help me with this?

Thank you,
Alex

Categories: programmatically, video

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I tried to make a small

Posted by Airborn on August 2, 2013 at 8:14am

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I tried to make a small extension which gets the node before save with the hook_node_presave() but I don't know exaclty how to convert it to a Video node :S

Okay it seems to be solved

Posted by Airborn on August 2, 2013 at 8:59am

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Okay it seems to be solved with this small hack:

function webcam_video_converter_node_presave($node) {
  if ($node->type = 'webcam') {
    $node->type = 'video';
    $node->field_video['und'][0] = array_merge($node->field_webcam['und'][0], array(
      'display' => 1,
      'dimensions' => '1280x720',
      'convert_video_on_save' => 1,
      'bypass_autoconversion' => 0,
      'use_default_video_thumb' => 0,
      'conversionstatus' => NULL,
      'thumbnail' => 0,
    ));
  }
}

If you have a better solution, please inform me :)

Alex

There is a strange behavious

Posted by Airborn on August 2, 2013 at 9:25am

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There is a strange behavious while using this code. The files are transcoded they are moved to S3 and after a time they are disappearing from there. I can't understand the reason.