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jisaac
Posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:45:07 PM
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Joined: 3/6/2009
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Location: Louisville, KY
Is there a way to upload videos in Umbraco like you would images and files? I know how to embed video myself, but my client wants the ability to upload video and they have no developing experience. I know you can use things like Flickr and YouTube, but I was hoping there was an extension or a way to do it inside Umbraco without needing to use a 3rd party.
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ddrayne
Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:36:56 AM

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Joined: 7/28/2008
Posts: 159
Location: Edinburgh
Just create a new media type of "flv" give it a width and height and upload it in the normal way via the media library. You cna then embed it with a macro and a bit of xslt.
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jisaac
Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:38:01 PM
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My problem is the client will most likely have .mov or .mp4 and won't know how to convert it to an .flv. I guess we could help them download software that would convert the files.

Would embedding them be possible without going through templates? We aren't allowing them to have access to the templates, only content and media.
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Ewatkins
Posted: Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:44:20 PM
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jisaac wrote:
My problem is the client will most likely have .mov or .mp4 and won't know how to convert it to an .flv. I guess we could help them download software that would convert the files.

Would embedding them be possible without going through templates? We aren't allowing them to have access to the templates, only content and media.


If they can get the embed scripts you can use a simple editor and put the embed script in there and then call it in the template...
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mortenbock
Posted: Saturday, June 20, 2009 12:04:13 AM

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One approach to it could be to make your own YouTube datatype, that uploads the video to youtube. then you could create a macro for rendering the embed tag. This would make it a bit easier for the user since they don't need to leave umbraco, and youtube will handle all the conversion stuff.

If you don't like youtube, you may want to look inti white label solutions suck as kickapps.com or ning.com which both offer similar solutions, but you can put your own logo on it.
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