Re: help with serving up mp4 with "nice" url

Good point on the rewrite rules, hadn't thought of that simply because
someone else did our apache set up, so I'm not too familiar with that,
but that seems like a good solution.

I just thought maybe I was missing something obvious - I thought there
would be a way redirect to an html in site_media right from urls.py.
But now I realize that the whole point is that the server handles
site_media and django handles everything that's not site_media, so I
guess that would be confusing things. I think you're right, if I want
to use django, I should just modify the camtasia html and put in in my
templates area. And if I want the html to be in site_media, then I
should have my web server do the redirect.

Thanks for the pointers.

Margie

On Jun 5, 5:01 am, Vasil Vangelovski <vvangelov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can achieve this without django at all. By defining rewrite rules
> on your web server. But why don't you make your own view/template on
> the url you want that will play the desired video? You can use the
> HTML file generated by camtasia for a reference on how to write the
> template.
>
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Margie Roginski
>
> <margierogin...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I am trying to serve up an mp4 video from my django app.  I've
> > generated the video
> > using a tool called Camtasia, and it creates a set of files for me
> > that all go in a single
> > directory.  I've put these down in my site_media directory with a
> > directory structure like this:
>
> >  site_media/img/help/overview_video/overview_video.html
> >                                     overview_video.mp4
> >                                     overview_video_controller.swf
> >                                     swfobject.js
> >                                     exprsesInstall.swf
>
> > If I reference overview_video.html like this, it works just fine:
>
> >  http://mysite.com/site_media/img/help/overview_video/overview_video.html
>
> > But I don't want the user to see site_media in their url.  Instead I'd
> > like them to go
> > to a nicer looking url, like this:
>
> >http://mysite.com/taskmanager/help/overview_video
>
> > So I'm trying to figure out what I put in my taskmanager app urls.py
> > in order to make it
> > handle the nicer url and then redirect to site_media/img/help/
> > overview_video/overview_video.html.
>
> > I think I should be able to do something like this:
>
> >   url(r'^help/overview_video$',    direct_to_template,
> >                 {"template": "[reference_to_site_media]/img/help/
> > overview_video/overview_video.html"})
>
> > But I can't figure out what to put in for [reference_to_site_media].
> > Could someone give me a hand?
>
> > Thanks.
>
> > Margie
>
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