Media

With Media in D7, it looks as though there are two big options for storing information in additional fields with images:

1. Use an Image Content Type with an Image field and media file selector, together with fields for title, description, location etc and store as content nodes
2. Use an Image Media File Type and add fields for title, description, location etc but store as file nodes

So I'm wondering what are the main advantages and disadvantages of each approach - especially with regards to future-proofing the site?

Does anybody know a solution to watermark uploaded "mp3" or "aiff"-files with a 3rd party service or with some add on´s ?
Also I am looking for a good protection solution for the audio-files (mp3) which are used e.g. in players where you can see the url within the html source.

Thanks for any tipps.

You can have a look and try it out the distribution by below links.

Official site : www.octopusvideo.org
Demo site : demo.octopusvideo.org

What is Octopus video?

I'm new to the media module, and am trying to extend it to pull a list of images from the file system rather than the database.

Here's my situation:
Imagine a multi-site environment like drupalgardens.com where you may have dozens of unique websites using a shared code base. You'd like to provide a shared image library for all website owners to view and choose images from. For obvious reasons, you don't want to maintain this library at the database level for each site, but rather at the code level just once.

I look at Media 1 year ago and now, but nothing has changed even (including version 2) with this to simple things.

Look at this:
Post on drupalgardens:

http://luk911.drupalgardens.com/content/hello-world

and the same post on wordpress:

http://luk911.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/hello-world/

You can build a spaceship with Drupal but we can't do simple things.

CMS or CMF is primarily a management articles. Insert a media in to content and beautiful design media content in artcle - is the main problem.

I would like to use Views to display, in a block, real thumbnails of images uploaded using tools based on the Drupal 7 Media Gallery module in a grid of images with a certain tag (using filter in views).

By real thumbnails, I mean either cropped small images of the original or the entire original reduced in size. This kind of thumbnail is efficient at loading. I do not want thumbnails which are simply the browser's on-the-fly scaling down of the original.