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Support for user submitted video via smartphone?

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  1. sounditresounds
    Member

    Hello,

    I am starting a video web series and one of the features I want is the ability to allow registered users to submit a video to the site via their smartphones. I need for the video to be uploaded to and stored in the back end, unpublished so I can review and then publish if it passes content standards.

    1. Can this be done with Gravity Forms?
    2. Does it support iOS & Android?
    3. Can it be done on desktop as well?
    4. What video formats does it support?
    5. Can the form be "greyed out" pending user registration to the site?

    I'm really hoping this will be the solution to what I've been looking for

    thanks in advance
    Gary

    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday June 4, 2013 | Permalink

  2. David Peralty

    You can do uploads of video files into Gravity Forms. Gravity Forms doesn't include any video wrappers, so you will want to figure that aspect out yourself if you intend on displaying those videos to users once you approve them. As for uploading it via smartphone, you can't do it on an iOS device because they don't have access to the file system to upload files to the web. The form can allow only logged in users to access the form, but it wouldn't be greyed out...rather the form wouldn't show until they are logged in.

    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday June 4, 2013 | Permalink

  3. sounditresounds
    Member

    Thanks so much for the quick reply David, really appreciate it. That's disappointing that there's no smartphone functionality with the forms for video. I'm not sure I follow what you mean by "access to the file system to upload files to the web." Can you explain?

    Also yes the plan is to publish the videos once I've approved them in my Wordpress CMS. Good to know that the form is only accessible to registered users, that takes care of one feature ;-)

    cheers
    gary

    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday June 4, 2013 | Permalink

  4. David Peralty

    To upload a video to a website, you need to be able to grab it from the hard drive on the phone. You cannot see the hard drive on the phone from a web browser on Apple's iOS platform (iPhone/iPad), so you couldn't select the video you've taken to upload it. Applications aren't restricted in the same way, but websites are.

    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday June 4, 2013 | Permalink

  5. sounditresounds
    Member

    Ahh yes I see, totally makes sense. So that really answers my overarching question of how to allow users to upload their own video via their smartphone - it basically can't be done because the share functionality is limited to email, text or send directly to YouTube.

    thanks again David
    -gary

    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday June 4, 2013 | Permalink

  6. David Peralty

    No problem. It is an annoying limitation to be sure. All my best!

    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday June 4, 2013 | Permalink

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