su-sws/stanford_video

Stanford Web Video: Custom content type and video player for captioned video created by captioning.stanford.edu

#Stanford Video

Version: 7.x-3.x-dev

Maintainers: jbickar, sherakama, josephgknox

Changelog.txt

This module delivers a content type, which allows for the embedding of a video directly into a page as well as the inclusion of other items (i.e., quote and speakers). It includes a view with four display options, and also allows for two page layout options: full width (default) and half width.

Installation

Install this module like any other module. See Drupal Documentation.

This module requires the Video Embed Field contrib module.

Configuration

• Create a new video node at node/add/stanford-video
• You can embed videos directly by inserting the direct URL to a video hosted on YouTube or Vimeo
• The default page views will be available at videos/recent-videos and /videos/recent-videos/grid (block views can be placed liek any other block views)

Troubleshooting

If you are experiencing issues with this module try reverting the feature first. If you are still experiencing issues try posting an issue on the GitHub issues page.

Contribution / Collaboration

You are welcome to contribute functionality, bug fixes, or documentation to this module. If you would like to suggest a fix or new functionality you may add a new issue to the GitHub issue queue or you may fork this repository and submit a pull request. For more help please see GitHub's article on fork, branch, and pull requests

stanford_video's Issues

Add some default Views and views template files

If you create a View and use the "Fields" row style, the views.tpl.php file takes over the field display from the custom template file in the module. Should add some default Views and views-view-field—field-stanford-video-media-fid.tpl.php and views-view-field—field-stanford-video-remote-value.tpl.php template files.

Change module package from Features to Stanford

In .info file

Add support for videos in subdirectories

If a user pastes in streamer code to a video in a subdirectory in their space on the Stanford Video streaming server, the JWPlayer JS code gets populated incorrectly.

E.g., rtmp://sv-stream.stanford.edu/su-webservices/some/arbitrary/level/of/nestingfoo.mp4 results in:

streamer: "rtmp://sv-stream.stanford.edu/su-webservices/some/arbitrary/level/of/",
file: "foo.mp4"

When it should be:

streamer: "rtmp://sv-stream.stanford.edu/su-webservices",
file: "some/arbitrary/level/of/nestingfoo.mp4",

The fix would be to update the preg_split that generates $remote_file and $remote_streamer, https://github.com/SU-SWS/stanford_video/blob/6.x-2.x/content-field-field_stanford_video_media.tpl.php#L60

Hide field elements in node display

-Streaming video path
-local video field label ("video file")
-Caption file?

Allow streaming hosting of .mp4, .m4v, and .mp3 files

The code for displaying the remote streaming video assumes a .flv extension. Add support for .mp4, .m4v, and .mp3.

Also change to default Flash with HTML5 fallback.

Update JWPlayer to latest version

Feature needs to be updated to match features-7.x-2.6

With features-7.x-2.6, this Feature installs in an overridden state due to foreign key issues and overridden VBO actions.

It needs to be re-exported.

Verify that video meta tag is no longer needed

Part of the investigation into IE9 compatibility indicated that the video needed the following tag in the HTML section:

It does not look like the most recent version has this, yet it still appears to work with IE9.

Verify that this is not needed.

Set captions to disabled by default

The JW Player caption plugin allows a "state: false" configuration option to have the captions be disabled by default; change the default to off.

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/addons/captions-plugin/14974/captions-plugin-reference-guide

Move controls and/or make them smaller when video window size is reduced

When you use CSS to reduce the size of the player window, the controls remain the same size, and indentation from the edge. It's clunky.

https://sites.stanford.edu/sts/beyond-classroom
https://sites.stanford.edu/breakfastbriefings/videos