(Tutorial) Drupal 6 Video Streaming Roundup

Tips : Drupal 6 Video Streaming Roundup

In this article I'm going to take a look at video streaming options for Drupal 6, from the point of view of setting up a user generated content video website. What provisions does Drupal 6 have for handling video content? Drupal itself has the upload module which allows you to upload files and attach them to nodes, but this doesn't really cut it for a fully fledged video content site as it has no support for embedded playback of these files. To get the kind of functionality we need (embedded playback, video conversion, compression etc) we're going to need to look to third party contributed modules.

Flash Node
"If you just want to add Flash content to nodes without having to worry about writing any HTML or PHP then this module is for you! Create a flash node, upload an swf file, and hit submit, and you have flash on your site..."

Whilst this module will allow you to add flash content to your Drupal site, a lot of it's features (including the ability to play flv files) are only available with the help of the SWF Tools module, which is currently unavailable for Drupal 6. This seems to be a bit of a stopping point. I also don't really like the way it treats flash files as separate nodes and don't think it would provide enough flexibility to create a complete user-generated-content site.

Imediasee Premium Player
"Now you can easily add affordable high quality streaming video to your Drupal site, even if you’re using shared hosting and have limited bandwidth. With the Imediasee Premium Player Module for the Imediasee Flash Video Streaming Service you can embed your www.imediasee.com hosted videos to your site with a simple tag. Upload your Flash videos to Imediasee or have us encode them for you. Either way you can video enable your 5.x or 6.x Drupal site in just a few minutes..."

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