Object Embedding (Flash)

Hi,

I'm only new here so I apologise if my understanding of things is not correct.

I am currently developing a site for people with disabilities and am seeking a way to embed audio/video comments and blog posts on the site.

I have been looking at Red5 as a viable option to serve media files and am now looking at the services module in combination with XMLRPC, Flash and maybe Flex.

I am a little concerned about accessibility.

Alex UA and I have set the date for an official release for Embedded Media Field, for next Friday, February 15. We're going to quash as many of the outstanding bugs as possible before then, and could really use some help from interested people, as far as testing and patching things up.

Once the official version is released for d5, we'll also begin development for the d6 release.

See http://drupal.org/node/213456 for release status.

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As some of you know, I've recently taken over maintenance of Inline and Image Assist, and initiated the Wysiwyg project. That was not only caused by personal interest, but also to take the necessary steps to realize the long awaited Inline API. You might ask yourself, what those three modules have in common or to do with each other at all: They deal with user input, allow to embed complex contents into a content, and provide an interactive GUI for that. If you already had the chance to work with them, you already know that there is a rather hidden, non-obvious hard-dependency between them.

Although I'd really like to discuss both topics (Inline and Wysiwyg support) separately, the gained experience on these topics enforces us to discuss them concurrently. The following mockup hopefully explains why: (see attachment to view in full size)

What is the best way to organize and commit patches back to Drupal modules for Services?

Examples:
* comment.load
* comment.user
* inbox.getmessages
* node.load
* node.save
* node.delete
* user.login
* user.logout
* aggregator.load

User g10 starts the discussion with there should be a consensus bout this:

My current site, couchsurfingori.com uses the occasional SlideShowPro slideshow. It's a flash embed with a tiny bit of Flashvars to reference which album from a seperate PHP-driven application is being displayed. It's very convenient for quick insertion of photo slideshow into a blog post. I really like the FlashGallery use of SimpleViewer. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can embed the FlashGallery into a blog?

I'm trying to get WimpyPlayer set up. It works with an external PHP and flashvars, so you can skin it, and it can detect what mp3's are in the directory it's in.

The FlashNode component lets me upload it as a .swf file, but I haven't been able to get it to actually detect any mp3's or to get the skinning working.

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

The Embedded Media Field module now supports custom URL's, in addition to the third party providers currently supported, such as YouTube, Blip.TV, Revver, etc. This allows external videos hosted on another site, or in the local server's file directory, to be embedded in the field. It works in the same way, so that an editor simply pastes the link they wish embedded into the field's textfield, and the module will parse the URL and display it appropriately.

We are looking for developers who are proficient in both Drupal and Flash/Actionscript/Flex with a good knowledge of the required Drupal modules.The component of our project that you will be working on requires the integration of Drupal with the Brightcove Video Platform (Flex/Flash) using Brightcove APIs - http://studio.brightcove.com/library/api/actionscript/as-methods.cfm.

The following functionality is needed:

• Rating system for Brightcove Videos
• Adding videos as favorites to user profile (user playlists)
• Comment/Review individual videos.

The newly released Neighborhood CCK module will take the place of Video CCK, replacing that module and expanding it with Video Neighborhood, Image Neighborhood, and the upcoming Audio Neighborhood.

In writing SWF Tools I attempted to follow some design patterns that would make the embedding aspect of it generic. The embedding logic is there, but it's surrounded by a lot of unreleted code. So with the benefit of hindsight, here is a run-through of an "Embed API". Much of this is simply cloned Forms API.

I recently headbutted my wife's Cartoon Smart flash tutorials long enough to create two extremely simple flash players: mp3 and flv. If you look in the FLAs, I've limited the actionscript to the bare minimum.

But that's as far as I can realistically go. So, calling Flash devs who might be lurking: express your intent right here. I can handle the review and commits if you think you can improve these players and are willing for your contributions to be GPL and Drupal housed.

Module Info

Here is a list of the Flash/embedding related modules. I'm trying to include anything here that adds an object and embed syntax to the page. I'm going to start listing which modules are similar, too. They are all assume to be D5 unless specified otherwise.

My main goal is to try and be open and get people collaborating where possible. If you add info as comments, I'll incorporate it into the table.

Here are some sites that are mashing up external sites and services:

• FoxyTunes planet - personalized music mashup integrating many music resources into one convenient place
  • detailed overview - http://www.programmableweb.com/url/6337
  • sample page - http://www.foxytunes.com/artist/johnny_cash
• MusicPortl tells you about almost every known artists biography by featuring wikipedia articles, links to recent blog posts.
  • detailed overview - http://www.programmableweb.com/url/2723
  • authors descriptions - http://www.musicportl.com/about