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Multiple Videos
Wed, 07/08/2009 - 10:27
Hi,
I am using the "Groovy" wordpress theme on my doubleter.com site.
Uploading a single video is perfectly fine. as you can see with this post
http://doubleter.com/be-an-email-ninja-and-get-your-inbox-to-zero-in-les...
The main video looks fine. However, i've also broken this video down into segments for my audience and their convenience, and i want to be able to display a thumbnail which they can then click to watch that video, rather than embedding the player itself inside the post (this is for the segments only, not for the main video at the top)
I tried to use Shadowbox to achieve this, but it doesnt seem to link to Kaltura.
Is there a way i could display thumbnails of multiple Kaltura videos, either with or without shadowbox?
Any advice would be most appreciated
Thank you
Just to clarify... so you want to have thumbnails for all of the Individual Segments (Parts 1 to 7) and when you click on them the videos load in a modal window (like Shadowbox)? If so...
My suggestion would be to have a look at Kaltura's Corporate homepage:
http://corp.kaltura.com/technology/video_player
Scroll down to the High Definition section and have a look at the source for that link. I'd just generate the thumbnail myself (just take screen grabs of the videos and manipulate them in Photoshop), and then implement the same kind of code as demonstrated above.
Alternatively you could use the API to generate the thumbnail:
http://cdn.kaltura.com/p/0/thumbnail/entry_id/3f37s020so/width/500/heigh...
For details on how this works see:
http://corp.kaltura.com/wiki/index.php/KalturaAPI:thumbnail
If you really wanted to use Shadowbox, you could easily do this by using "inline content" and hidden divs. Have a look at:
http://www.shadowbox-js.com/
...or you could make a simple PHP script that loads the player based on a query string. For example, loadvideo.php?entryid=d0nmcg1nog. You could then use Shadowbox's "external site" functionality.
I hope this helps!
Best Regards, Chris!