I would take a different tack. Store my videos is a service such as
Vimeo and then link to their generated thumbnails.
I'm doing that using django-picasa (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-
picasa/1.2). The code might give you an idea now how do it. I'd also
serve up my videos from them and save my bandwidth.
t.
On Feb 11, 12:17 pm, Nasp <charett...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys, I just did the big switch from PHP and I'm wondering if you
> can help me solve this issue the django way.
>
> The big picture is, we've got news associated with images and videos.
> Those "medias" can be ordered and must provide thumbnails for the
> client side.
>
> So far i came up with inline ordering in the admin and thumbnail
> generations via sorl.
> I found out ffmpeg could easily extract thumbnails from videos so i
> was about to try to build a wrapper around it to handle video files
> the way sorl does with images via PIL. Do you know any other way to
> generate video thumbnails?
>
> In order to structure the project i built a django app called "media"
> and defined a VideoField(forms.FileField) class, this way we extract .
> I'm planing to use an intermediate field called MediaField which will
> handle the abstraction with a dictionary association based on the
> model type attribute.
>
> class NewsMedia(models.Model):
> """
> News Media
> """
> MEDIA_CHOICES = (
> ('image', _('image')),
> ('video', _('video')),
> )
> news = models.ForeignKey(News)
> type = models.CharField(max_length=1,
> choices=MEDIA_CHOICES)
> media = models.MediaField(medias={
> 'images':
> models.ImageField(upload_to='uploads/images/'),
> 'video' :
> models.VideoField(upload_to='uploads/videos/'),
> },
> type_field='type');
> order = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)
>
> class Meta:
> ordering = ('order',)
>
> Also i'm having problems trying to figure out whats the exact
> difference between django.form.FileField and
> django.db.models.FileField.
>
> I'd greatly appreciate If you have any idea how to implement those
> features or know an already existing solution.
>
> thanks,
> Simon
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