Podcasting

For over a year LA Drupal has been recording our meetings and many of our events. View the videos online... http://drupal-la.blip.tv

Subscribe to our video podcast... http://drupal-la.blip.tv/rss (available directly on iTunes too)

We provide these videos for free for people to learn Drupal of course. Over the next handful of weeks you will see us release videos from our meetings and DrupalCampLA '08. Learn the basics of Drupal, theme design, module development, advanced views, Services module (Flash + Drupal), and many, many more topics all relating to Drupal.

Follow us on twitter... www.twitter.com/ladrupal

The following are ongoing and/or proposed projects pertaining to Drupal media. Many of these have shared needs for features, documentation, and qualified talent to do the much needed work.

Drupal products

Drupal is a powerful tool for building amazingly scalable websites quickly and simply. The use of multimedia in Drupal has posed challenges to many users and developers of all abilities. Drupal Multimedia addresses the main questions regarding how to implement video, image, and audio content in a way that is elegant for the developer, as well as the end user. The language of the book is straight to the point, and provides a framework to practice building an assortment of multimedia sites using a variety of modules in the context of test or example sites.

An ongoing series of lessons, sessions, and workshops on Drupal media and arts.

Goals and Objectives

• Showcase how producers and media organizations are leveraging Drupal.
• Bridge the gap between the geek world and the real world (who mostly don't know the world beyond MySpace).
• Demonstrate how artists can leverage new technologies and reach an audience without having to compromise their art.
• Gain a more comprehensive understanding of the modules available and the ways they are being used
• See how producers and media organizations are leveraging Drupal.

Objective

Looking to identify the best web based solution (Drupal or third party) that would allow a content creator to upload and distribute media (video, audio, photos, ...for starters) to external sites and services.

Features

These would vary depending on the specific needs. Could be a combo of Drupal modules, third-party solutions or both.

Upload/ingestion

• Web based service that can embed on any web page

Our video channel (provided by Blip.tv) allows us to broadcast our videos in a feed for you, iTunes, Yahoo, and Adobe's Media Player. I've spent some time massaging these settings and we're now live on iTunes under the Podcast section. Subscribe or just feel free to download videos there.

The first videos that are listed are our May 2008 recordings of Scott Nelson covering the Services module and AMFPHP module (four parts).

We are looking for an experienced Drupal developer / Company preferably in and around Chennai to carry out a couple of Drupal development projects. The requirement is urgent!

.Please contact me at binutz@yahoo.com

I've explored with some people the idea of creating a "Video bridge" with open source buildign blocks http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge

Probably the best working example of what I would like to do is at http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/

I am right now assessing how to incorporate this into Drupal. Some open questions:

Whether to use Adobe Flash Server, or extend some other open libraries?

Is anyone else already working on this?

What would you like to see?

I've explored with some people the idea of creating a "Video bridge" with open source buildign blocks http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge

Probably the best working example of what I would like to do is at http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/

I am right now assessing how to incorporate this into Drupal. Some open questions:

Whether to use Adobe Flash Server, or extend some other open libraries?

Is anyone else already working on this?

What would you like to see?

Last week I published this post where I outlined the modules I used when building my last podcasting site... It might be useful to someone here...

https://www.innovatingtomorrow.net/2008/01/18/building-podcast-site-20-h...

Last week I published this post where I outlined the modules I used when building my last podcasting site... It might be useful to someone here...

https://www.innovatingtomorrow.net/2008/01/18/building-podcast-site-20-h...

Greetings from Texas!
I've been using Drupal to build sites for a couple of years, but, have never incorporated podcasting. I now have a need to build a site to host the business podcast of a long term customer. I'd like to leverage the experience of my fellow Drupaler's to climb the learning curve rapidly.

• What are the best modules to use for podcasting? Why?
• What are best practices (tips/tricks/traps) for Drupal podcasting?
• When should I roll-my-own using CCK/Views?

TIA, David

Greetings from Texas!
I've been using Drupal to build sites for a couple of years, but, have never incorporated podcasting. I now have a need to build a site to host the business podcast of a long term customer. I'd like to leverage the experience of my fellow Drupaler's to climb the learning curve rapidly.

• What are the best modules to use for podcasting? Why?
• What are best practices (tips/tricks/traps) for Drupal podcasting?
• When should I roll-my-own using CCK/Views?

TIA, David

I've been trying to setup a drupal based podcast site for a friend of mine's show for a while now.
I've recently figured out that the method of concatenation of the different segments doesn't produce a clean mp3.

Since I now have to adjust my scripts, I was wondering what the optimal encoding settings that the audio module (and the flash players ) prefer using lame.

I think I remember that I saw that the flash players can only handle 44khz mp3s? is that right?

I've been trying to setup a drupal based podcast site for a friend of mine's show for a while now.
I've recently figured out that the method of concatenation of the different segments doesn't produce a clean mp3.

Since I now have to adjust my scripts, I was wondering what the optimal encoding settings that the audio module (and the flash players ) prefer using lame.

I think I remember that I saw that the flash players can only handle 44khz mp3s? is that right?

Hello,

I wrote a module derived from the drupal Video module to build a Youtube-like platform.
The site can be seen at http://www.kaouenn.net

Features:
- Creative commons licenses support
- auto transcoding to flash flv (with ffmpeg), with load balancing support (transcoding can be done outside the web server). Video formats supported include mpeg, realmedia, wmv... In fact the ffmpeg supported formats
- support video and audio only

The transcoding part is done with shell scripts updating the drupal DB through the XMLRPC interface.

Hello,

I wrote a module derived from the drupal Video module to build a Youtube-like platform.
The site can be seen at http://www.kaouenn.net

Features:
- Creative commons licenses support
- auto transcoding to flash flv (with ffmpeg), with load balancing support (transcoding can be done outside the web server). Video formats supported include mpeg, realmedia, wmv... In fact the ffmpeg supported formats
- support video and audio only

The transcoding part is done with shell scripts updating the drupal DB through the XMLRPC interface.