After having one too many problems with trying to upload movie files through multiple filefields and use Media Mover to shift them over to S3 and then link back to CCK I came across this idea for a workflow that does not require Media Mover and still makes use of XSPF Playlist + FLV player.

1.) So my first step was to upload my files (h264 Quicktime movies) and their associated jpegs to my S3 bucket using Transmit or S3 fox. Naming convention as follows movie.mov and movie.jpg

2.) Then I used a multiple CCK text field to store the full urls to the filenames. In my instance I am using cloudfront so the urls looked like http://234234.cloudfront.net/movie.mov

3.) Make sure you make all the files you uploaded to S3 publicly acessable via the ACL list

4.) So this worked at least as well as my previous workflow without the frustration of uploading huge files through http and watching duplicate files be generated every time media mover ran. The problems I ended up with were the same, no thumbnails in playlist and the node title used for each playlist item.

So I tried the thumbnail patch in this thread http://drupal.org/node/502196 that associates attached thumbs with the same name and it worked somewhat but generated errors and applied the same thumbnail to multiple files, so I am still looking for a thumbnail solution that will work with the playlist.

Moving onto the next issue for now is to get titles showing in the playlist next to their relevant video. As a plain CCK text field is only one field and that holds the url I thought that maybe using the CCK Link field would be a better option as it has a url field and a title field. The url can hold the S3 address and the Title field can hold the clip title. Unfortunately the CCk link field does not show up in the list of possible choices to build a playlist from.

So my request is if someone can assist with adding a CCK link field as a possible XSPF player source and use the CCK Link Title as the playlist item title.
And then if we can get some sort of working thumbnails functionality. If they are attached and have the same name but different file extension that works fine for me or if they are harvested from a filefield and associated by the order they are added ie. cck link url and title 1 correspond with filefield thumbnail 1 etc.

Thanks to whoever can help
Gregg

Ideally if I attach 5 thumbnails through a multiple CCK imagefield and