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Chapter 6. Local Video

The past year has seen a major growth in videos on the Internet, and developers for Drupal have only recently really begun harnessing it. Several excellent modules have risen to the task, and their developers are working together to create strong offerings, increasingly working together to build an extensive and robust media API.

The Video module, holding a popular namespace, was an early contender for a one-stop solution. However, it has not been maintained well over the past year, leaving a gap in the offerings. Meanwhile, several alternatives have arisen in the past year and we will examine some of them.

There are basically two approaches for displaying video on your site: serving video from your own server, or embedding video from a third-party host. The last chapter examined remote videos, and this chapter will explore serving videos from your own server.

Local Video Files

When serving local video files, we have to consider first how a video will be placed onto the...

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