om_playback_servers

There is a LOT of work being done with Open Media modules right now that is not being reflected on this list. On Drupal 7. A lot of things are in development, and I will only speak from my own experiences - but I'll post and hope others will add. Please correct any errors.

There really seem to be two aspects of the Open Media System that are being implemented concurrently.

1) Facility and Project Management through modules like MERCI and OM_Show.

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:

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.

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.