Question

i have uploaded a video to django and it’s all working fine ..
but i need to render that video in the view..
django cant access it
any idea how to make django template see my uploaded files

modles.py :

class VideoData(models.Model):

    title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    file = models.FileField(upload_to='vids'  )

forms.py :

class UploadFileForm(forms.Form):
    title = forms.CharField(max_length=50)
    file  = forms.FileField()

and in template.html:

<video width="320" height="240" controls="controls">
  <source src="vids/name.mov"  type="video/mov" />
 </video>

it shows an empty video player.

am i doing anything wrong ?

please help

Answer 1

Assuming an instance of VideoData named vid is in the template’s context, you should use:

<video width="320" height="240" controls="controls">
  <source src="{{vid.file.url}}"  type="video/mov" />
 </video>

To add the VideoData instance to the template’s context, your view should look like this:

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from models import VideoData

def show_video(request):
    vid = VideoData.objects.get(id=1) # replace with correct query
    return render_to_response("template.html", {"vid":vid})