I’ve been searching all morning for information on how to upload various video/music files into Modx that a client who knows nothing can figure out on his own with some guidance from me. Right now it seems that TinyMCE seems to only work with Flash, Quicktime, Shockwave, Windows Media and Real Media file types. Not sure what file types these represent but cannot seem to upload avi, divx, mpeg or wma files with either file type choice. I was hoping to be able to make it so he could upload the following files: wmv, wma, divx, midi, avi, mpg, mpeg, asf, asx, swf, flv, dcr, dir, mov, mp4, ram, rv, rpm, ra, mp3. Now I’m not sure if this is even possible with my limited experience with Modx and coding in general so I thought I’d appeal to those of you with more experience and skillsets. Is there an extra or mod that I can install that will take care of this for me? Ideally, he should be able to upload the file from his computer to the server and then use the app to embed it similar to the TinyMCE way. He would never be able to figure out how to create a snippet, TV, or Chunk so that is out of the question. Right now I am creating chunks with the code he provides me but I don’t want to keep having to do this for him all the time. Can anyone help me out or steer me in the right direction? Is it even possible with Modx?
Yeah I kind of figured that. He already uses youtube, however he has a 15 minute fishing video he wants on his site. Apparently he can create videos on his own computer with some software he has but he cannot figure out how to compress them into a usuable file size for the site. I was able to convert it from mpeg to flash but it is still to large for the website (179mb) and no one will stay that long waiting for it to load on his page to view. I’ve given him your advice on using youtube but I’m not sure even youtube will be able to handle large files. I must confess that videos aren’t my thing I know nothing about them frankly and I really don’t want to. Thanks for your reply I appreciate it. He’s on his own with this one.
Blip.tv or vimeo allow longer videos. Blip.tv is probably the best alternative. I’m assuming adding them in the text editor would be the same as adding a youtube video, but I haven’t tried it.
It turns out that I already had some software on my computer called avs4you video converter that I must have purchased a while ago. I was able to reduce the file size to 42 mb and convert it to wmv which places a player on the web page when using the TinyMCE editor to embed it. Now the load time is only 5-10 minutes which in my book is still too long but he is happy with it. Thanks for your replies.
