Video Management like Gallery

dreadlocks1221

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Posted: Thu, 2009-03-12 15:51

I've been browsing around Google and I couldn't find much on this, but is there a program like gallery but designed for videos, I know gallery supports some videos, but I'm looking for something that has video as its main handle?

 
floridave
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Posted: Sat, 2009-03-14 03:59

It all depends on the content, i guess. G2 can be used for video, as a good example:
http://www.flashyourweb.com/media/index.php?g2_itemId=30

Dave
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dreadlocks1221

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Posted: Sat, 2009-03-14 04:07

thats head on of what I'm looking for, this may be a repeat question, but is there any good tutorial on how to get the video functions going like that? the only thing I read on gallery site was installing ffmpeg

 
floridave
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Posted: Sat, 2009-03-14 04:30

What aspects are you wondering about?
it uses a stock theme with some css customizations.
ffmpeg to generate the thumbnails.

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dreadlocks1221

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Posted: Sat, 2009-03-14 04:38

the main feature I like about that is the overall structure of it, how there is the main page with each video and then when you click on each video you get a progressive download player and a section that talks about the video. I al wonder what formats the player accepts

 
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Posted: Sat, 2009-03-14 04:58
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the main feature I like about that is the overall structure of it, how there is the main page with each video and then when you click on each video you get a progressive download player and a section that talks about the video.

All stock G2 with some css changes.

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I al wonder what formats the player accepts

That is where it get a bit complex......
It is up to the client browser to render the player.
'Most' browsers will render flash movies in the same way. However if you have, lets say a .wmv file, it might not have a player in the browser the client is using, so the users experience will be different depending on the clients browser/OS/plugins. ( windows media player/ real player / etc )
So the best way for a better end user experience is to encode/trans-code your movies to FLV.

Dave

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dreadlocks1221

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Posted: Sat, 2009-03-14 05:03

ok, I have some gallery experience and some css experience the last site I made that uses gallery is www.wolffs.com and they wanted a minimalist slider theme. How do you recommend getting started?

btw thank you for all your help so far

 
floridave
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Posted: Sat, 2009-03-14 12:55
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How do you recommend getting started?

Install gallery.
choose a theme and color pack that is similar to waht you are after:
http://themes.gallery2.hu/
use that theme and colorpack. use FF and the dev tool to assist in color changes:
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/70126

ask specific questions on what you want to do.

Dave
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