Drupal: Using Internet Archive videos with the Embedded Media Field module

Submitted by wccatv on July 28, 2008 - 11:03am.
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We're proud to release version 0.0 of an include file that will make the Embedded Video Field module work with videos uploaded to the Internet Archive.

Update: Now at 0.1. Now will use whatever mpeg4 it finds first in the RSS feed, rather than only mpeg4s derived by the Archive.

This works with Drupal 5.

Rough draft of instructions:

  1. Install the emfield module on your site.
  2. Download archive.inc.txt, rename it to archive.inc, and upload it to yourwebsite.com/sites/all/modules/emfield/contrib/video_cck/providers
  3. Go to the "Content Types" admin screen for your site at yourwebsite.com/admin/content/types
  4. "Edit" your content type and add an Embedded Video field.
  5. Configure the field to work with The Internet Archive.
  6. Now when you create a node of this content type, just paste in the URL of a page at archive.org in the "URL" text field. For example, http://www.archive.org/details/videojam_521
  7. When you save the node, you'll see a Flash-based player with your video, as well as a link to download the mp4 version, a link back to the original page at archive.org, and whatever description was entered. (Note that you have to add your own Title.)

For questions or comments, please e-mail mike@wccatv.org.

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Not Working for Me...

Submitted by Anonymous on August 3, 2008 - 11:30pm.

I tried to use this to pull the videos from DrupalCon Boston 2008, and I get the following error:
ERROR: Could not find MP4 video for DrupalconBoston2008-DesigningForDrupal in archive.orgmetadata. The emfield Internet Archive module may need to be updated.

I'll add this to the issue queue as well.

Also, just a note: you probably don't want to leave full html on for anonymous comments...

Looks like the Drupalcon

Submitted by wccatv on August 4, 2008 - 9:15am.

Looks like the Drupalcon videos have been posted in multiple parts and multiple formats. The Archive allows extreme flexibility, but this inc is assuming certain things about the way the Archive has been used.

We've updated the module to

Submitted by wccatv on October 2, 2008 - 1:58pm.

We've updated the module to include whatever .mp4 it finds first in the feed. It's not intended to support an Archive page that includes multiple videos. (Would be nice in the future.)

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