Advice on cms/quicktime
by David Modijefsky
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Sep 14, 2009 at 8:57:51 pm
Hi there, I'm asking here because I think people over here are more video oriented. Hopefully I'm right ;-) I'm struggling along in my quest to find a simple(!) cms that allows me to upload/change QuickTimes on a few existing pages. I was searching for a standalone solution (open source if possible) but after days of searching I only ended up with very complex ones, ones that lack good documentation, or ones that in the end do not support QuickTime. I'm not a hardcore programmer so I can use all the help I can get. Hopefully some fellow Cow is willing to share this well kept secret with me. Thanks in advance!
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Re: Advice on cms/quicktime by Richard Williams on Sep 14, 2009 at 9:11:44 pm
Hi David,
The question you pose is an interesting one. For a good cms, one to do exactly what you want it to do, its always best to just create your own. It is very difficault to try to fold aorund s created CMS program, and its only really nessasary when the site is massive and requires alot of frequent alterations.
So, unless someone else offers up an easy solution, why dont you give us an idea of what it is you are trying to achieve, and perhaps we can offer a simpler solution for you, for instance, an SSI might be a nice idea for you to use, or a simple database even.
Do you want people be able to physically upload a new video or what?
The more detail, the more we can offer solutions. :o)
Richard Williams
p.s. Please remember to rate our post replies and tick if solved. Also, please remember that we here are NOT employed by Adobe, we do this out of love and fun, so its always nice to recieve a Please and Thank You! :o)
Re: Advice on cms/quicktime by David Modijefsky on Sep 15, 2009 at 1:10:44 am
Hi Richard,
Thanks for willing to look into this. Here's what I want to do. I have a private section on a small site. In that section are a few pages that have about 6 QuickTime's on each page for clients to review. My client must be able to upload and change QT's and one or two lines of text. All the pages are already done and ready to go. I was hoping to find something simple like Cushycms but without having to go through someone else's site. Or copying in parts of your ready pages like Cms from Scratch which alas does not support QT. If QT is not possible I can maybe persuade my client in converting his QT's to flv but does that bring on other problems like handling a swf player to hook up the flv's, or is there a solution where you can hook up flv's directly? Well, this is what I want to solve. Any help is highly appreciated. Does my explanation make any sense?
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Re: Advice on cms/quicktime by David Kelsen on Sep 15, 2009 at 2:41:57 pm
Flv's and F4's are a more universally accepted format for video. Jeroen Wijering's JWPlayer is one of the most popular players out there, is free and relatively easy to configure and use and includes a swf that doesn't need to be modified. Any cms requires a bit of a learning curve, my favorite is Drupal, although you may be able achieve your goal with a simpler solution like wordpress.
Re: Advice on cms/quicktime/flv by David Modijefsky on Sep 25, 2009 at 7:30:38 am
Thanks David, I know. I was just hoping for a QT solution but after weeks of searching and asking I know now that the combination QT and a free Cms is an impossible one. I'm now in the process of redoing those pages in DW CS4 with a flv conatainer. After that I was thinking of going with Cms from Scratch. It's so far I've seen the most simple solution to set up, and the most simple UI for the clients that have to work with it. Or do you advice otherwise? I don't need lots of bells and whistles, just being able to alter some text and change the flvs.
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Re: Advice on cms/quicktime/flv by David Kelsen on Sep 25, 2009 at 2:05:18 pm
I've been setting up a lot of Wordpress sites for clients lately. The advantages are that the sites are dynamic, the backend UI is user friendly, the themes are becoming more and more configurable on their own (depending on which ones you choose), and with just a little bit of code modification you can alter the appearance to just about anything. Add to that, that the plugins allow tons of functionality; from contact forms to subscription sites to shopping carts, automatic twitter feeds, embedded video and iframes (lots more). Plus each plugin is designed to adopt the theme, so there's no extra coding to retain continuity from a design perspective. Then, when you hand it off, you spend an hour showing the client how to create or modify their own pages and they don't call you everytime a sentence or a single word needs to change. Not to mention that there's also builtin SEO. Search engines love cms's and dynamic applications in general. But of course my favorite aspect is that it's open source (meaning free). Wow, I sound like a commercial. Sorry for the long response, hope this was helpful.
Re: Advice on cms/quicktime by Shirley Kyrnm on Sep 30, 2009 at 3:06:58 am
Wordpress and blogger, they both allow users to add video to their blog post.
You can convert the mov video to FLV format. And use a pre-designed web FLV player to embed the FLV video to your blog.
You can use playerdiy.com It is a quick solution to add FLV to web page and make custom web Flash video player. Here is the tutorial - http://www.playerdiy.com/support/tutorial/customize-flash-video-player.html
Re: Advice on cms/quicktime by David Modijefsky on Sep 30, 2009 at 7:55:19 am
Thanks Shirley. I already had left the path of QT. It's almost impossible to find a solution for QT and a free Cms. I've looked at your solution and I think it's (too) PC-based. It looks interesting. But there is only an .exe for download. I think that is a strong message for Mac users ;-). However, in the meantime I'm busy with Cms from Scratch and flvs. It leaves my design in tact and I more or less just add some code to the elements that need to be cms-ed. I've just arrived at the part where I have to start messing with the flvs. They say it's suppose to be easy but for a non code-junkie... I'll keep you posted.
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Re: Advice on cms/quicktime by David Modijefsky on Nov 6, 2009 at 11:35:12 pm
Here's a little update. I've spend weeks trying searching on forums etc. It turns out that most cms-es don't like flv's. A lot of them say they can handle flv's (in the sense of changing them by cms) but in the end, they can't. Cms from Scratch is one of them. That leaves me with with the only option to learn Joomla as I have since I'm under the impression that they can handle flv's and they have good tutorials. Hopefully about this subject as well.
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Re: Advice on cms/quicktime by David Kelsen on Nov 7, 2009 at 12:03:46 am
Joomla has a number of free plugins that can handle flv's. It's actually a pretty powerful cms. Make sure you use Joomla 1.5. The "Simple Flash Video Player Module" works really well on shared servers. But if you have a dedicated server and can mod the php.ini file, "AllVideos Reloaded" might be a better choice as it's a component, module and plugin.
Good luck,
