Open Media Project

This group is where users and developers of the Knight sponsored Open Media Project share information, discussions, and documentation. The Open Media Project is both a suite of modules based on the system developed by Denver Open Media and the group of 7 development partners who are contributing development, testing, documentation, training or other resources to make the Open Media modules more usable for both the PEG and Drupal communities.

The primary goal of the Open Media Project is to leverage Drupal to give local communities more control over their public access channel. The system will build on several existing modules and maintain the suite of new modules through Drupal's CVS. This is a different approach than most of the previous investments the PEG community has made in Drupal. We are also committed to developing modules that are flexible enough for a variety of uses beyond public access channels.

Current Custom Modules: Open Media Project, Open Media Show, Open Media Airing, Open Media Playback Servers, Open Media Timeslot Scheduler, Open Media Support, Internet Archive and MERCI.

Thinking about adopting MERCI for a Institute of Technology kit lending system

Posted by danielmcsweeney on June 9, 2011 at 10:51am

Hi guys,
firstly congrats on Merci. Im not a DRUPAL user but I've found it very easy to create a prototype MERCI based site using your modules. Well done.
I would recommend that you consider taking a look at the LEIHS project (http://code.zhdk.ch/projects/leihs). It is an open source resource booking system and we almost adopted here in my institution but backed away from it as its based on Ruby on Rails (Im not a fan). That said the system has some great features that may act as a good source of inspiration for the MERCI team.

New Stable Scheduling and OPS Releases

Posted by lkacenja on May 13, 2011 at 9:54pm

For the last month, Denver Open Media has been running automated rules based scheduling from cron jobs on all three of our channels. We are excited to release stable versions of Open Media Timeslot Scheduler and Open Media Playback Servers (OPS) that are fully functional. Here is a break down of the functionality the new code provides:

Help define scope of the API for Derivates API for Media for GSoC project

Posted by kreynen on April 29, 2011 at 5:19pm

While there were several Media related project proposed, only one made the list of 20 Google Summer of Code projects approved by both Drupal and Google. Janez Urevc's Derivates API for Media project will...

...implement Derivates API for Media Library (Media, Styles, ...) ecosystem in Drupal 7. This API will provide a flexible, extensible and abstract API to implement derivation engines for different types of files.

Launching a locally created website. Databasing with Drupal. Migration of SQL data with drupal.

Posted by inertialacoustic on April 19, 2011 at 3:52pm

I am using MAMP and Acquia Dev Desktop Control Panel to manage and create websites locally (for clients).

We are establishing a new workflow/methodology in terms of how we launch our websites once they are completed. We would like to build everything locally, while synchronizing data on a hosting account (i.e. HostMonster.com, etc) if possible. How do we do that? (with the recommended workflow) Therefore, we can essentially launch everything on one command.

My question, that hopefully somebody can answer, what is the best way to accomplish this?

Content Agent Less Robust Than We Thought

Posted by stefanwray on March 22, 2011 at 3:13pm

channelAustin has been using a proprietary software tool called Content Agent to encode .mov files to the MPEG2 format required for playback on our Synergy Broadcast system. Content Agent in our work flow has been previously discussed. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/19135

We also decided some time ago to use Content Agent to encode H.264 files for VOD on the web with the OM Show module. And so we added an H.264 encode process to the workflow. We've now decided to stop doing that.

RFP by the ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY MEDIA, NORTHEAST REGION - website upgrade

Posted by jdcreativity on March 11, 2011 at 6:51pm

The Alliance for Community Media Northeast Region is accepting proposals to redesign, and further develop the regional web site. This will be a concept to completion production. The purpose of this RFP is to provide a fair evaluation for all candidates and to provide the candidates with the evaluation criteria against which they will be judged.

The existing http://acm-ne.org web site was originally designed and produced in 2008 on a Drupal 6 and modified slightly in 2010. The site is maintained with in-house resources.

Open Media Project and Archive.org join efforts to offer free video encoding, file storage, and VOD for Public Access TV stations

Posted by civicpixel on February 23, 2011 at 10:49pm

About three months ago I posted about Denver Open Media's initial results integrating with Archive.org via the Internet Archive module -- at that point we had transferred 348 shows to archive.org. As of today, we have now transferred 2746 shows, almost 2TB of data.

Using YouTube for web TV

Posted by westis on February 8, 2011 at 1:32am

Howdy,

When YouTube allowed for uploading of content longer than 15 minutes we decided to migrate our web TV content to YouTube. It's cheaper (free actually) than storing the flv/h264/WebM files on your own server (or Amazon S3 as we used to) and YouTube does the conversion.

Desktop/browser editors - Drupal WYSIWYG & specific modules

Posted by ClearXS on January 31, 2011 at 3:18am
Last updated by decibel.places on Tue, 2011-02-01 01:29

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Started with this post: Add editor: XStandard (+ other desktop/browser side plug-ins?). Add info & edit to get more structured. Researching for solutions eating lesser server resources, so a desktop/browser side plug-in might be the solution. I haven't seen another like (the quality of) XStandard. But then I found many other browser/desktop editors:

Small Steps for Small Station with OMP Install

Posted by jdcreativity on January 25, 2011 at 3:39pm

As part of the effort to refine the useful documentation for non-developers I am trying to expand kreynen's 12 step program for an OMP install. I was tempted to post this as a wiki - but it is very rough, incomplete working path at a public access TV station that just has two staff. For those who have gone through the process or my be farther along - please feel free to comment and provide any feedback. What's missing - really help us break it down. We're moving slow and steady here. - Jason

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Open Media Project documentation & Screencasts

Posted by synchlayer on January 23, 2011 at 1:30pm
Last updated by synchlayer on Sun, 2011-01-23 13:30

Spurred by discussions at Drupal Camp Western Mass, where more stations wish to join the OMP, and following on from this post: Capturing Help Requests & Questions For Better Documentation it's time to do some more documentation updating.

If you know how to do any of these things, please either make a screencast and add it to openmedia.blip.tv (I can gave you the login info) or add it to the newly organized documentation on Drupal.org, like this Open Media Airing.

Open Media Project session at DrupalCamp Austin

Posted by stefanwray on November 22, 2010 at 4:23pm

channelAustin staff member Stefan Wray attended DrupalCamp Austin on November 20 and 21 (http://2010.drupalcampaustin.org/) held at UT's AT&T Conference Center and delivered a 1 hour presentation on the Open Media Project (http://2010.drupalcampaustin.org/sessions/open-media-project) to about 40 people. He covered channelAustin's background, progress, and implementation of the project, specifically describing and demonstrating the different Drupal modules that had been developed with a focus on MERCI (Manage Equipment Reservations, Checkout and Inventory).

I am having trouble with a profile installation ...

Posted by nicholas_lawson on November 16, 2010 at 7:43pm

* warning: array_map() [function.array-map]: Argument #2 should be an array in /hermes/web05b/b583/pow.mediabridges/htdocs/openmediamodules/modules/system/system.module on line 1015.

* warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in /hermes/web05b/b583/pow.mediabridges/htdocs/openmediamodules/includes/theme.inc on line 1771.

* warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /hermes/web05b/b583/pow.mediabridges/htdocs/openmediamodules/includes/theme.inc on line 1771.

Best practices for optimizing Drupal on lower memory configurations

Posted by jdcreativity on November 12, 2010 at 6:20pm

I've been having some occasional trouble where my site slows to a crawl.

Does anyone have any best practices for optimizing Drupal on lower memory configurations.

Clogged up by the OM_Airing Feed

Posted by jdcreativity on November 10, 2010 at 5:36pm

This morning I noticed that my site when accessed through http was slow to crawl. Couldn't get in or do anything.

When I finally got in and took a look at the Drupal Reports there was an Error related to the refactored feed from our Telvue:

Message simplexml_load_file(): http://173.76.78.19:3000/thu in /var/www/dev.eastoncat.org/sites/all/modules/om_airing/modules/om_airing_feed/om_airing_feed.module on line 59.

We must have hundreds and hundreds of these messages in a very short period of time last night.

Is this slowing my site performance to a crawl?

Denver Open Media integration with archive.org & new ingest workflow

Posted by civicpixel on November 3, 2010 at 6:10pm

Since installing the Internet Archive module about a month ago, Denver Open Media has transferred 348 shows to archive.org(screenshot). The process has been quite stable with only a few files failing transfer (and the module now supports automatically re-attempting failed transfers). In fact, it's a lot more stable than our current ingest workflow which involves using Media Mover to encode the broadcast file, flash file and create thumbnails.

Denver Open Media running multiple playback servers

Posted by civicpixel on November 3, 2010 at 5:24pm

Denver Open Media is now running multiple playback servers integrated with a single Open Media System. Two of our channels are being driven by Telvue Princeton servers, and thanks to the generous donation of time by Tightrope and Ray Tiley(raytiley), we started running our third channel in early October on a Tightrope/Cablecast server. The transition to using an additional playback server went remarkably well thanks to the Cablecast code already written by Darrick(darrick) at Davis Media Access and on-site support from Ray.

Open Media Playback Servers Release Committed

Posted by lkacenja on October 18, 2010 at 6:33pm

Just committed a release of the om_playback_servers module we've been working on. The idea is to place all playback server specific code into one central location. Before installing the modules, you must have created a channel taxonomy and a properly formatted channel feed. After configuring the module, om_playback_servers_add_airings and om_playback_servers_update_schedule should become functional for use in development. All new work being done in scheduling uses this module and these functions.

Support Drupal & Community Media @ National Conference for Media Reform

Posted by synchlayer on October 12, 2010 at 9:06pm

Dear Drupalistas

My session is one of the finalists for FreePress.net's National Conference for Media Reform in Boston, but I need YOUR vote to help it make the final list.

The conference will focus on media reform, media policy and media activism, and will be an important opportunity to promote Drupal the Open Media Project, Open Source and Community Media to the many local and national attendees.

Please vote here: Open Sourcing Community Media - http://agenda.freepress.net/?i=63

OMP and CiviCRM

Posted by stefanwray on September 28, 2010 at 10:10pm

I've aggregated content related to the Open Media Project and CiviCRM from several sources (GDO, openmediaproject.org, blip.tv, DOM) and compiled it in list form here. This content deals with integrating CiviCRM and MERCI, establishing CiviEvents for classes, as well importing Facil data. My reason for doing this is because I completed importing data into MERCI, and am looking to re-import user data and focus attention on the CiviCRM side of things. I started looked at all these resources independently and realized it be good if they were all on one page.

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