Media

In video module they have great integration with Zencoder transcoding service, with the number of new features added in to the Zencoder they have recently added mobile profiles for the Zencoder. It would be a good solution for users who are using video module on Drupal with Zencoder. Here is the fill article about
How to encode video for mobile use

Today we released the latest video module release video 6.x-4.1-rc6 and we added number of new features to the video module.

First we added several new features to the FFMPEG conversion, now video module is allow your to convert video for progressive download and we changed the module to use latest FFMPEG with fallback to older versions.

..."The future in D7 and beyond is file (field)
along with PHP stream wrappers and other niceties. Media module makes
use of these features already.

We perhaps need a new discussion on groups.drupal.org, to analyze and
figure out what kind of functionality projects like Audio and Video
should provide, if any, starting from D7.

posted by sun on http://drupal.org/node/47998#comment-3139718

June 30 is the deadline for submitting requests or recommendations for PBCore 2.

Here is the request form: http://pbcore.org/2.0/?page_id=304

I recommended the following as additional genre vocabularies for purposes of describing music.

Alternative
Blues
Children's
Classical
Country
Eclectic
Electronica
Experimental
Folk
International
Jazz
Latin
R&B and Soul
Rap and Hip Hop
Religious
Rock

This was based on looking at the common denominator for music genres found on these sources:

allmusic.com
amazon.com
archive.org
audiogalaxy.com
dmoz.org (which is google)

channelAustin is adopting PBCore as a metadata standard for video genre types. PBCore is the metadata standard for the exchange of Public Broadcasting content. With this decision, channelAustin joins the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) and Denver Open Media in using PBCore. channelAustin is including the PBCore Module in its Open Media Project implementation (in development) and will model its configuration after BAVC.

MDX 2010 FTW!

With a Drupal Beta planned for May 21, the time is coming for a Media Beta as well! Before we can do that, however, there are a few loose ends to tie up. I've identified two critical pieces for a happy Developer's eXperience (DX) before I'll be happy doing that. There are certainly more: see the Media issue queue for more.

MetaData Handling

The Media module creates Media entity objects, which are fieldable. That means we can already attach any fields or taxonomy to any media object, which goes a long way towards handling metadata. However, Media metadata needs are variable and complex. For instance, a field might be fine for adding a taxonomy vocabulary for Video genre or Bird species, but you would need something better if you want to automatically add video duration, YouTube categories, or grab a music file's getID3 data. Basically, we need a larger discussion of what's necessary, what's possible, and how we get there. See this Media metadata issue for more background.

Display Formatting

Currently, we're using the Styles module to power display formatting. We may or may not continue using that. In any case, we'll need to ensure the formatters more closely follow Media Types, and we'll need to offer a pluggable UI for changing formatter style presets, similar to Image Styles (Imagecache in core, for those not yet familiar).

Media DX Summit 2010?

I'd love to lock up some fellow developers for a couple of days in a room to bang on these ideas. At the same time, my partner Gwen is due on May 22 for our second child, so firstly, I can't really travel any time in the foreseeable future, and secondly, even if we had a summit here in Harrisburg, it would either have to be like this week, or in mid-summer. Considering the deadlines involved for this, we need to get cranking. Thus, the summit I would love to see happen will probably either have to happen remotely, or perhaps without my involvement. :(

Anything Else?

Are there any other issues you would suggest to be critical beta-blockers? Do you have any thoughts to add to the issues I've suggested? Please add to this thread!

Thanks,
Aaron Winborn

(Cross-posted at AaronWinborn.com.)

I'm trying to shrink a few large images that are going to be displayed on my frontpage.

I'm confused about the following settings:

• Embed Color Profile
• Convert to sRGB

Both options increase the final image size a few kb. Are either one of them good to use for websites or should I leave them disabled?