Tips : Get the FlashVideo Module

In order to be truely efficient with this module, it is important to learn how to use it. Well, simply put the FlashVideo module is an easy to use module that expands the Upload module by allowing users to upload videos and attach those videos to any content. Even more exciting, is that FlashVideo automatically performs the very common Flash format conversion as well as create an image thumbnail of any newly uploaded video for every cron cycle (I'll get to this later). Once the video is in Flash format, the video can then be embedded in that node using the very simple [video] tag.

To enable this module for a certain node type, you must first go to the FlashVideo Settings in the Administrator panel, and select the FlashVideo settings for any available node type in the Drupal system. Once the FlashVideo module has been enabled for that node type, you will then notice the modified Upload form when you add new content for that node type.

Once a video has been uploaded, it will then have to wait for the next Cron cycle for the conversion to Flash format to begin. You can manually run the cron operation by going to Administer->Logs->Status Report and then click on the link that says run cron manually. After the video has been converted, it will then be available to any node referencing that video. That node can then reference the video by using the [video] tag, and also reference the video thumbnail by providing the [thumbnail] tag.

Parameters for these tags are provided by using a ":" to indicate a new parameter is being provided. The following format should be used for both the [video] and [thumbnail] tags. [video: param=value ] where param is the name of the parameter being passed, and value is the value of the parameter.

The following parameters can be used...

* index (For both video and thumbnail tags) - This is used to reference a video when muliple videos have been provided for each node. If no node parameter is specified, then this will reference the node in which the tag resides. Example: [video: index=0] would reference the first video uploaded to that node, while [video: index=1] would reference the second video uploaded to that node.
* node (For both video and thumbnail tags) - This is used to reference a video in another node. Example: [video: node=10: index=0] would reference the first video uploaded to node 10.

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