Chat + Media Player!!!
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aaron - Wed, 2008-10-15 17:25
So had a brainstorm, and I'll volunteer to get this rolling, as I'm working on both modules.
As the chatroom api is developed, I'd like to tap into it for the Drupal Media Player. That would open up live chats in the player, ala ustream, but tied to the Drupal user db.
Just putting that out there. This is brainstorm fodder for the future, and I probably won't have time to work on that idea (which will be after both are mature) until later this winter.
Forgot to cross-post in
Forgot to cross-post in video group. Just did that now.
Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (book, in October!)
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Hmm
Just brainstorming here. Can I chat with friends and play videos for them at the same time? Or maybe play Yahtzee?
haha :P
haha :P
JW 4.0 player
On the new JW player, there are options for plugins. We're using this on hub.witness.org to create a search system inside the player. It's not fully developed yet, but it basically calls back to views to get an xspf_playlist, filtered by views_fastsearch's keyword argument (there is a patch for it in the queue). I'd imagine you could do something similar with chatroom, and even have it embedable on other sites- pretty trick!
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Yes, that's the idea. I
Yes, that's the idea. I guess we should look at jw player's plugin options as a model.
Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (book, in October!)
AaronWinborn.com (blog)
Advomatic (work)
Plugins- yes!
Yes, I really think it is a good idea to provide core functionality in the player, and then allow the dynamic inclusion of plugins- this is what the JW player is doing now, and while it is not everything, it is a good example of how to do something like this. Plus, it follows the design pattern of Drupal, so that is always a nice thing.
I wrote up a longish post about what we're doing on the Hub with our flash player and Drupal- check out http://www.24b6.net/2008/10/15/dynamic-flash-video-and-drupal which explains in a bit more detail what I wrote in my post above.
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