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[mark burdett]

Hi, Media Mover+CCK+etc. does seem far superior compared to the set of 
modules that FilmForge is currently using (which to be fair were chosen 
before MediaMover really hit the stage).

Given the "FilmForge" name I do feel like it should move more in the 
direction of open-ended API modules that site architects can build off 
of, dropping in custom tools and workflows where needed.

It's probably about time for a new rewrite of FilmForge; if anyone is 
building a video-enabled drupal site it could be a great opportunity to 
do more work on the profile.

Also FilmForge is missing some pieces like Panels integration (panels 
are used on the demo site but never made it into the profile)

If only I could quit my day job (or clone myself).. I'd love to dive in 
on a drupal 6 version of FilmForge, which would also involve working on 
d6 versions of some components that aren't yet released..

By the way, there are lots of possibilities for video embedding.. 
indybay.org (not a drupal site) uses the flashembed jQuery plugin 
http://flowplayer.org/tools/flash-embed.html which has worked great.  
I've been thinking about switching from FLV to H.264 video for 
Flowplayer to play.  I'm also thinking about generating <video> tags for 
Safari to play videos.

--mark

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:18:02 -0700, Sasha Costanza-Chock wrote:
> Hi Bruno,
> 
> FilmForge was done under d5 but it might be useful for anyone interested 
> in setting up a video site to check out our process and documentation 
> re: various modules, patches, etc that we came to along the way...
> 
> http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge/ToDo
> 
> peace
> schock
> 
> 
> Bruno De Bondt wrote:
> > Cool, good to see this coming together.
> > 
> > I've been working on video support for our new site during this week. 
> > Here's (briefly) how we would like to do things:
> > 
> > 1) Media Mover: for harvesting, processing and storing video (and 
> > possibly other multimedia content): http://drupal.org/project/media_mover
> > 
> > We'll use two CCK filefields (http://drupal.org/project/filefield) in 
> > our video node type: one for the original video file that the user 
> > uploads, and another where Media Mover stores the processed file (note: 
> > storage processed files in a CCK field still has to be finished in Media 
> > Mover). We'll use FFMpeg for the transcoding (Media Mover's 'processing' 
> > step).
> > 
> > 2) SWFobject to embed the Flash video in our site: 
> > http://drupal.org/project/swfobject_api, 
> > http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
> > 
> > 3) JW Media media player: 
> > http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player (there's a 
> > Drupal helper module for this player, but we're not sure whether we'll 
> > use it; same goes for SWFobject).
> > 
> > Did you consider using Media Mover? It seems like a great solution for 
> > dealing with multimedia (although it isn't production ready yet, as far 
> > as I know). You could have MM at the core of a multimedia site (dealing 
> > with all the heavy lifting), and then use whatever you like (Flowplayer, 
> > JW media player, jQuery media, ...) to display it.
> > 
> > - bruno
> > 
> > Sasha Costanza-Chock wrote:
> >> hi all,
> >>
> >> It's not exactly an IMC but the purpose of setting up 
> >> http://filmforge.koumbit.net was to serve as a test of creating a new 
> >> video.indymedia site using drupal. So please check it out.
> >>
> >> The demo site:
> >> http://filmforge.koumbit.net
> >>
> >> The profile is here:
> >> http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge/DrupalProfile
> >>
> >> Installation notes, & dependencies:
> >> http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge/Installation
> >>
> >> best
> >> schock
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