The Hyperlogos

I decided that like every other website on the planet seems to, mine should support flash video. I don't actually have enough bandwidth with my current provider to make much of it, but I was determined to have it anyway. Unfortunately, the flashvideo module uses a nonfree flash video player (it is free only for noncommercial use, which is an extremely hazy term) and the video module just wouldn't work for me. Actually, the flashvideo module didn't work either, it wasn't even attempting to display the content. I had originally planned to add FlowPlayer (the player used by video.module, actually, which is under the Apache license) support to the flashvideo.module but when it didn't seem to want to generate any kind of useful output I gave up and began writing my own module. Note that there is not necessarily anyone to blame for any of this and even if there was every one of these problems might be solved by now.

fvfield.module is the result of my efforts. Since Drupal 5 incorporates the CCK, I decided I should use it. This means that any content type can be extended with a flash video. Unfortunately, there are some severe limitations to my module (so far). Most importantly, you can only have one of them on the page at the time. It also doesn't thumbnail, begins playing automatically, provides no means for setting player options, et cetera. Some or all of these problems are intended to be addressed in the future.

To get going, just unpack the module, then pick which FlowPlayer to use to display your content. You should now be able to add a fvfield to any content type, because I included FlowPlayer with the module. I will remove it if I run into bandwidth problems.

Visit the fvfield project page to download.