• Introduction
• Introduction
• Concepts
• Overview of Concepts and Terms
• Sef-Hosting or Video Service
• A Hybrid Approach to Online Video
• Advances in Online Video Players
• Aggregation of Video
• Useful Online Services
• Miro Community
• Creating Subtitles Online with Amara
• Hands On: WordPress
• Inbuilt Video Features in WordPress
• An Intro to Choosing WordPress Plugins
• Advanced Responsive Video Embedder
• Video Aggregation in Wordpress
• Hand On: Drupal
• Basic Video Embedding Drupal
• Uploading Video Files in Drupal
• Choosing an HTML5 Video Player
• Hybrid Approaches for Video in Drupal
• Video Aggregation in Drupal
• Hand On: Plumi
• Intro to Plumi
• Plumi Video Features
• Installing and Configuring Plumi

Basic Video Embedding Drupal

Drupal is a content management system like WordPress. A lot of developers like Drupal as you can quickly and flexibly create websites with quite complex functionality.  As we progress through the sections on Drupal we will start with a very basic set up and gradually add more features.

Embedding video in Drupal

To embed video inside Drupal we can use the OEmbed technique.

Firstly install and enable the OEmbed module in the normal way. Make sure to also enable the oEmbed Filter sub module.

You can test if oEmbed is working on the test tab of the module's configuration.

In the admin section navigate to configuration, media, oEmbed and then Test [admin/config/media/oembed/test].

Enter the URL of a video. Click Submit. If the test works you will see an embedded player.

This means you can paste in a URL of a supported video providers into any content post which will convert to a player when you view the content. 

Let's try this with the default Article content type.

Post the video URL in to an article. Make sure not to make the URL a link or the embed won't work.

Save the post and your video should appear.

This process works well. However, it is quite limited in how the video is displayed. Read on for more options.