Configuring Media
Can someone point to a good place to learn how to configure Media once it's installed?
Thanks
Read moreUse Flickr for image hosting for Media Gallery upload?
The Media module image gallery uploader is great: robust, multiple batch uploading.
However I would like to ask if a project is being considered whereby Flickr is used as the hosting of the images?
This would provide 2 benefits:
1) publishing content to a wider audience on more platforms without duplicate effort i.e. to the site and to flickr at the same time
2) reduced bandwidth and filespace used on the hosting - particularly for budget and shared hosting
Comparison between Media 1.x and 2.x
The major changes between Media 1.x and 2.x so far are the following:
- The File entity module which provides most of the underlying API has been moved to its own project at http://drupal.org/project/file_entity. When updating from 1.x to 2.x you'll need to ensure you download and enable this module separately. You will also need to ensure that the file_entity module included in the Media module directory is removed on update.
Overview of file uploaders
At the first Media online meeting we decided to create an overview of multi file uploaders. Anyone is welcome to edit this list.
| Uploader | Drupal Module | License | Technology | Browser support | Features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Image Content Type or Media File Type
With Media in D7, it looks as though there are two big options for storing information in additional fields with images:
- Use an Image Content Type with an Image field and media file selector, together with fields for title, description, location etc and store as content nodes
- Use an Image Media File Type and add fields for title, description, location etc but store as file nodes
So I'm wondering what are the main advantages and disadvantages of each approach - especially with regards to future-proofing the site?
Read moreImplementing on a fairly big site
I have a charity site where 50,000 members have uploaded 200,000 files (mainly images) and we're currently migrating the site from Drupal 6, vBulletin and Photopost to a single Drupal 7 setup. The site also contains approx 1M forum posts, 10,000+ articles, a directory etc, that all contain images from the gallery.
Media looks like it could be a good option for image/file handling and so I'd like to learn a lot more about it and document the use of the module.
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Can the media module work with files stored on the file system?
I'm new to the media module, and am trying to extend it to pull a list of images from the file system rather than the database.
Here's my situation:
Imagine a multi-site environment like drupalgardens.com where you may have dozens of unique websites using a shared code base. You'd like to provide a shared image library for all website owners to view and choose images from. For obvious reasons, you don't want to maintain this library at the database level for each site, but rather at the code level just once.
[SOLVED] Does Media create thumbnails that can be exposed in Views, for making a grid of thumbnails with certain tag, linking to original images?
I would like to use Views to display, in a block, real thumbnails of images uploaded using tools based on the Drupal 7 Media Gallery module in a grid of images with a certain tag (using filter in views).
By real thumbnails, I mean either cropped small images of the original or the entire original reduced in size. This kind of thumbnail is efficient at loading. I do not want thumbnails which are simply the browser's on-the-fly scaling down of the original.
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