Media

Yes, we have already started developments of the video module and working hard to release a stable version very soon. So the D7 video module will be the most advanced video solution for D7. We will continue all the D6 features set and adding new features like editable presets and export compatibility with ChosTools, Features modules blah blah.

Hello Everyone,

First of all, I apologize if this is not the correct place to ask. I am new to this group, and also relatively new to Drupal. I made a site at my local computer and everything seems going well. I have one functionality, though, that I can't implement because I really don't know how to do it. I have been searching and reading posts here in drupal.org and also googled it for the past 2 days, but can't find any answer. Maybe I'm just typing the wrong search phrases.

I’m an intermediate Drupal user at best and i am certainly not a developer. I’m trying to get a handle on Drupal 7’s media handling and file structure. If this is not the appropriate place to post this question, any help in directing me to the right place would be very helpful.

Let me start with some general questions and then maybe i’ll be able to articulate some questions about specific uses of the module.

1. What precisely is a media asset? That is, it’s neither a node, nor a taxonomy term, comment, etc. So what is it? A new entity? Is its proper name “media asset”? Will it find its way into things like the “Terminology” page?
2. How do/will media assets relate to Taxonomy? That is, it is possible to assign terms to media, but are/will media assets be searchable and discoverable like nodes?
3. How do/will media assets relate to URL aliases? That is, can the option to apply replacement patterns to media assets be expected, the same way replacement patterns are applied to content paths, taxonomy term paths and user paths? Is this simply an issue for the Pathauto/Token modules?

To the extent that i understand Media module, it seems like it could have some too-good-to-be true uses, but i want to make sure i’m actually getting it and not just sticking my amateur nose where it doesn’t belong. Thanks for any insight!

Drupal 7 has cost enormous blood, sweat and tears. Now's the time for celebrating. And hey, there are the release partys. To combine this with marketing, there is something else we could do. The style of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q48gzc-sl_8 struck me.

How about the following: Everybody records a video of himself or/and his pals or an even bigger group. One part consists of what Drupal 7 means to him personally. In the second part, we count down from 60 to 0, using a watch to synchronize the speed. This does not have to be all the way, ten numbers somewhere between 60 and 0 are enough. The final picture is a big "Drupal 7 is released".

What can I provide: helping market the campaign, talk to people to tweet about it, write a blogpost on the planet, get more people to write blogposts.

What I cannot provide: Video editing. Somebody proficient in video editing needs to step up. This person is doing the lions share of the work, for sure. But wouldn't that be cool and emotional...

Working title: "Seven is seconds away"

On Dec 4th I released an enhanced video module build with many new features. Specially now its supporting HTML5 videos on Drupal sites. Not only they we added number of new enhancements to the module to improve the user experience and many other aspects.

Here are the list of new features and would like to get more user inputs to improve the usability of the module.

VideoJS is an HTML5 Video Player with 3 core parts: An embed code (Video for Everybody), a Javascript library (video.js), and a pure HTML/CSS skin (video-js.css).

Using Video for Everybody as the embed code means you know it’s compatible with many devices (including ones without javascript).

The javascript library fixes browser & device bugs, and makes sure your video is even more compatible across different browser versions.