HTML5 support for Media (Drag and drop files, <video and <audio rendering)

Posted by JacobSingh on March 12, 2010 at 10:56am

The Media Module makes files important in Drupal. Media features:

Fieldable "Media" Files.: Images can have captions, Audio files can have genres, Video can have bitrate, etc built into them via the entity API
A Kick-ass Media browser: You can select media files from your existing library, not just upload a new one.
Support for importing from / browsing 3rd party sites: Flickr, Youtube, Blip, etc
WYSIWYG Support: Embed anything and anywhere

All of this is really exciting and fills a massive gap in Drupal that many have tried to fill. The module is still rough around the edges, but does at some level do all of these things. Wouldn't it be great to future proof Media and show off HTML 5 capabilities in Drupal 7? I think so. A great way to improve your skills for the coming web 3.0 and make Drupal's digital asset management solution amazing.

I think the actual implementation is up for grabs, but I'd like to see the ability to drag and drop files from the desktop into the media browser. I'd also like to see support for embedding all types of video and audio via the native <video and <audio tags.

How does your proposal meet the stated goals of the Knight Drupal Initiative program?:

N/A

How long will your project take to complete?:

2 months

How will you implement and distribute your project?:

Media Maintainers:
Jacob Singh (Acquia)
Aaron Wilborn (Advomatic)

What is your total budget estimate and how much funding are you requesting:

N/A to GSoC

Comments

There is some rudimentary

Posted by aaron on March 13, 2010 at 3:03pm

There is some rudimentary support for HTML5 videos in place, although not cross-browser compliant (which will be difficult at best to achieve, as that requires multiple files for a single media asset). See the Styles module as well, which helps with display.

Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (my book, available now!)
AaronWinborn.com
Advomatic