Drupal Video experimentation

Drupal Video Experimentation

let it all hang out!!!

Media module

email by mick

I wasnt' even aware of this media module for example.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/19746

How does this effect what we are trying to do?

One of the issues that Ekes was wrestling with was what to do when you have a Video which can be accessed in different ways for example.

a) via streaming on a site like blip.tv / youtube b) via direct download eg: a 50 M mp4 file c) via a torrent file

Say you have a feed coming in with two elements like

<media:group>
  <media:content blip:acodec="mp3" blip:role="Source" blip:vcodec="ffodivx" expression="full" fileSize="64175590" height="480" isDefault="true" type="video/msvideo" url="http://blip.tv/file/get/Mickfuzz-5MinEditFLOSSManualsAtWintercamp09335.AVI" width="640"></media:content>
  <media:content blip:acodec="mp3" blip:role="web" blip:vcodec="ffvp6f" expression="full" fileSize="25923223" height="480" isDefault="false" type="video/x-flv" url="http://blip.tv/file/get/Mickfuzz-5MinEditFLOSSManualsAtWintercamp09380.flv" width="640"></media:content>
</media:group>

Ideally you want to be able to agregate the feed flexibliy to acheive some of the following

   * Bring up a streaming player
   * Dislay a link to download file/s
   * Export an RSS feed which will allow others to do the two above things on their sites!

At the moment I think Ekes was trying to address the issue by writing an array to the Embedmedia file. no?

I'm not sure - but maybe the Media module is trying to address that issue too .

quote -

"The Media module is a File Browser to the Internet. The Media module provides a framework for managing files and multimedia assets, regardless of whether they are hosted on your own site or a 3rd party site. It replaces the Drupal core upload field with a unified User Interface where editors and administrators can upload, manage, and reuse files and multimedia assets. The Media module is meant to act as a supplement or replacement for many other multimedia modules, such as FileField, Embedded Media Field, Media Mover, and Asset."

Has anyone else had a look at it at all?