[GSoC Proposal] - Extend functionalities of and add new features to Media module

This would definitely be a welcome addition. It's something that I'll likely have to work on at some point if someone else hasn't solved the issue soon, so if this proposal is accepted I'll make sure to keep in touch.

Concern more about videos, like video converting, thumbnails creation, video gallery, video playback. I mentioned possible integration to the video module http://groups.drupal.org/node/136674. I would love to support if you need any help on video handling and integrating with video stuff. Can you please elaborate more about how your going to handle those stuff?

Looks good, darklrd. One thing that seems to fall through the gaps between various modules at the moment is inline image placement and layout.

Most image/file pickers are concerned with with file upload and image processing. Once that's done, they pass the image URL to a WYSIWYG editor's image dialogue where the user has some formatting/layout options.

The problem is that these image placement dialogues were designed for deprecated properies such as align, vspace, hspace, border, etc. This is over-complex and misguided in the extreme. All they really need to do is offer 2 or 3 layout options that add a CSS class to that image.

Would it be possible for you to completely integrate your solution into the WYSIWYG module, to the point where you're also offering the image placement options? With those options focusing on applying CSS classes?

(I've been talking about this thing in the WYSIWYG group as well: WYSIWYG Specification: end-user's perspective)

Hi Mark

I will create a plugin for WYSIWYG. Once you upload your media files using that plugin, it will provide you with inline placement, layout and editing options.

I have not tested this yet. But, yes it will be focused on applying CSS classes.

Thanks

We spoke briefly on IRC about this. I would suggest a few things:
* create a target spec for what you what from the wysiwyg editing capabilities. What wordpress current offers I think would be a very good starting point and give you some direction to go for.
* as per setting URL paths- this will require user permissions among other things on stream wrappers. I would suggest that you may want to focus on the wysiwyg improvements before you tackle this- this is really a non-trivial thing as you need to consider support for cdns, public/private files, etc.
* as per video handling, here I think you need a spec as well. You likely want to coordinate with (slashrsm) who is interested in this as well. heshan.lk should also be involved in this conversation. I am interested in this from a transformation layer API and would be happy to continue some of the discussions that people involved in the media module have had. This again is something that is probably much larger than the scope of your proposal, but there may be aspects of it that you could tackle- specifically work on the interface would be very helpful.

The media plugin for WYSIWYG currently supports only images

please note that youtube is also supported with http://drupal.org/project/media_youtube .

I proposed "Derivates API" for Media ecosystem (http://groups.drupal.org/node/138714). It looks, that our proposals are connected to each other. Mybe we should discuss how can we cooperate?

http://drupal.org/node/1043570#comment-4255044

Is a good discussion of issues w/ floating in ckeditor w/ media.

I don't understand this:
"Provide multiple options to upload i.e from local computer, from an external URL or from the Media library."
This functionality is already present. You have evaluated media / wysiwyg right?

"Provide option to edit the image with the following features -
Crop
Rotate
Flip horizontally and vertically
Common filters such as brightness and contrast control."

Is going to be complex and probably better suited to Janek's proposal: http://groups.drupal.org/node/138714. That being said, you would want to coordinate on that). http://drupal.org/node/969284 is the issue about the same.

Here's a couple things I'd like to see done in WYSIWYG / Media land:

• Embedding of all types with a fallback: http://drupal.org/node/1016376 (related to http://drupal.org/node/832372)
• Automation of configuration steps for WYSIWYG Integration (http://drupal.org/node/692838)
• Write tests for WYSIWYG integration (http://drupal.org/node/1026532)
• Make the media embedding work w/o a WYSIWYG editor: http://drupal.org/node/1048698
• And the one mentioned above - floating: http://drupal.org/node/1043570

Of course, you choose your own adventure here, but those look like worthy goals to me.