Processwire field type for storing video files and automatically creating poster images
- Video is available via: $page->video_field->url
- Module automatically creates a poster image of the video on upload and makes this available via: $page->video_field->poster
- Shows the duration of the video on the title bar, next to the filesize
- Stores VTT files for subtitles accessed via: $page->video_field->subtitles
- Formats a transcript from the subtitles, accessed via: $page->video_field->transcript
The video can be automatically rendered on the frontend with the play() method via the <video> tag. The exact settings used can be set in the module settings like this:
<video src='{$page->video_field->eq(1)->url}' poster='{$page->video_field->eq(1)->poster}' width='720' height='408' ><track kind='subtitles' src='{$page->video_field->eq(1)->subtitles}' srclang='en' /></video>
Basic usage only requires setting up a field with this new video fieldtype. Simply upload a video and if desired enter subtitles in VTT format.
You can additionally set a few different options in the field's Input tab:
- Number of poster images to generate - if you change from the default of 1, the editing user will be able to select which image they want to use for the poster image
- Copy poster image to dedicated image field - not necessary but gives you more options of interacting with the poster image(s)
- Field that you want poster images copied into - only relevant if the option above is checked
The module requires ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php, although I can make the latter optional fairly easily. I don't have any requirement checking implemented yet, so if you don't have these, you'll get php errors.
- Multi language versions of subtitles
- Support for uploading multiple formats of the same video (mp4, webm, etc) and/or automated video format conversion
http://processwire.com/talk/topic/4580-video-fieldtype/
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