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Is there a plugin or script that I can use to manage videos within EE?

No, there isn’t. What most people do is simply set up a weblog for managing the videos with each entry being a video, and use the template to set up how to display them appropriately.

I’m also going to move this to how-to as it’s more appropriate there =)

That would be a nightmare if I had over 50 videos. I probably need to hire a developer to write a module? Can you recommend one?

You might want to have one developed since video management is starting to gain traction in membership sites.

Why would that be a nightmare?  Create an entry for each video - most people have many more than 50 entries, but just put the video file name or URL to it, and do the markup in the template.

It’d take only a few minutes of setup plus creating the 50 entries, which shouldn’t take long at all really.

flv player plugin

This uses Jeroen Wijering’s flv player which is open source and excellent. You can also make a custom playlist from any rss or xml file, or it will add all media in a directory if wanted.

I don’t use the plugin myself, I just use the player from
the players site in a template and have used it with ajax, sidebar menus etc. One can also make a separate weblog as said above and have each entry as a video… using one template with conditionals, or use the playlist. One can also use flash vars for a playlist in sidebar etc…

demo with playlist
using flashvars thumbs in sidebar
using quicktime with ajax
Using entries as videos for a video blog

Basically it isn’t difficult at all. Add the player to the page with EE tags for the video and conditionals etc…

Why would that be a nightmare?  Create an entry for each video - most people have many more than 50 entries, but just put the video file name or URL to it, and do the markup in the template.

It’d take only a few minutes of setup plus creating the 50 entries, which shouldn’t take long at all really.

Ok, I did not know that your weblog was the database.

Sorry to jump this post but I’m curious about the Flash player plugin.  I have a weblog where I created a custom field to store the URL to some Flash video content.  How can I dynamically insert this URL into the Flash Player plugin? 

Thanks for any feedback.

If you were using the plugin, according to the docs for it you enter the url to the file as below. I changed it to use a custom field for the file:

{exp:flvplugin playerpath="http://www.somesite.com/players/flvplayer.swf"
 playernumber="1" file="(customfieldname)" width="320" 
height="240" showdigits="true"}

as an example the custom field would have /videos/mynewvideo.flv

Seems simple enough. Thanks very much!

There is also the quicktime plugin, if you prefer QT for your movies. Otherwise, it’s just as easy to add the movie name to a custom field and then write the embed code in a template.

{if custom_field}<object><embed src="{custom_field}" /> </object>{/if}

Both methods require that all movies have the same size.

Does this help too?

http://www.solspace.com/forums/viewthread/195/

I used the Flv plugin and made a weblog to denote where the video was located, and what the dimensions were so you can use different sized videos.

One could also use custom fields for flv location, height, and width. 😉

me too sorry for jumping in. using youtube video embed code, we could just paste this markup in a custom field, right?

Yes, but a better way that validates:
SWFObject embed
I use, with the js link in head;

{if utube_vidid}
<div class="center">
<div id="flashcontent">
Oops! You don’t have flash installed, or JavaScript is off.
</div>

// <![CDATA[
var so = new SWFObject("http://www.youtube.com/v/{utube_vidid}", “youtube”, “400”, “326”, “8");
so.addParam("wmode", “opaque");
so.setAttribute("redirectUrl", “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v={utube_vidid}");
so.write("flashcontent");
// ]]>

</div>
{/if}

Then I put just the video id into the custom field. Centered, valid xhtml, and easy with no “click to activate” in ie. Resize all one wants…
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