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Hi,

I have been trying for a couple of days to upload a video in one of my pages and have it show on the page with no luck, I have read as much as possible but my brain is fried now. I was hoping some kind soul would point me in the right direction?

Is there a module like Gallery but for videos that is as easy to use as Gallery?

I HONESTLY have read the forums but i just cant seem to figure it out.

Any help what so ever would be greatly appreciated

Kind regards

Shaolin

Shaolin wrote:I have been trying for a couple of days to upload a video in one of my pages and have it show on the page with no luck, I have read as much as possible but my brain is fried now. I was hoping some kind soul would point me in the right direction?

In the content categories, video has one all by itself and is one of the least understood types of digital content there is. When you use the word video, you are not being quite clear on what is it that you are trying to upload and show on a page:

• - is it avi?
• - is it mov?
• - is it flv?
• - is it wmv?
• - if any of the above, which codec is it encoded with?
• - where are you uploading it to?
• - if you are embedding it from your own server do you have the amount of bandwidth to serve it to your visitors or are you thinking of having an account on youtube or vimeo and embedding from there?

This lis of questions is not even exhaustive...

Shaolin wrote:Is there a module like Gallery but for videos that is as easy to use as Gallery?

Not sure if Gallery can or cannot handle it but, depending on your answers to the above list of questions, there sure are ways to do it, and someone might be able to point you in the right direction.

Hi,

Many thanks for your reponse. The video format I am trying to upload is .mp4 although I would also like to be able to upload .avi. AVI isnt an issue, I can always convert to .mp4 if necessary before uploading.

Yes, I would like to host the video from my own server and I am uploading the videos to /uploads/media

I have plenty of bandwidth, more than enough to cope with the video I want to show on my page.

Any pointers would be a great help!

kind regards

Shaolin

If you are able to display the video on a webpage (not per se cmsms driven) and are satisfied with the result you should be able to do so with CMSMS.

(I don't know much about video, if I need it, I host them on YouTube and hope they know what they're doing Like determine the best way to show video in the visitors browser etc).

I'm not aware of a video module as user friendly as Gallery. But ListitExtended (aka LI2) comes close.

I would use that module to create an item for every video, and upload/select the video.

In the template you take care of the code to embed the video.

(There even exists a commercial extension that allows for multi-uploads to one item (very similar to Gallery) but that does NOT allow for metadata on each individual, uploaded item.)

Shaolin wrote: The video format I am trying to upload is .mp4 although I would also like to be able to upload .avi. AVI isnt an issue, I can always convert to .mp4 if necessary before uploading.

Yes, I would like to host the video from my own server and I am uploading the videos to /uploads/media

I have plenty of bandwidth, more than enough to cope with the video I want to show on my page.

You don't need a module for that. Take a look at this: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_videos.asp
To be sure that the video is properly embedded use {uploads_url}/media/<filename> on the sample code.

Stay away from avi files, or rather, convert them to either mp4 or flv. Avi files are platform dependent and are just an enclosing format which may have too many different codecs, and likely to cause problems.
HTH

Thank you VERY much for your replies.

I can embed the video now no problem but what if I wanted to use this opensource HTML5 video player to make the video more aesthetically pleasing? I'm guessing I would have to upload the player to my server, but how would I then go about actually using it?

Thank you once again for all your assistance

kind regards

Shaolin

It all depends on HOW you want your users (editors) to be able to use it.

The 'get started' page does describe the possibilities of using the player.

Thank you everyone for your stellar assistance,

I have now got everything working the way I want it.

Many thanks again

Shaolin