[Imc-drupal-dev] **** IMC Drupal Survey ****

[mark burdett]

Totally off topic, but has anyone using drupal 6 noticed the aggressive 
garbage collection of temporary files?  I *think* it might be the cause 
of missing file uploads on radio.indymedia.org -- at least it's the only 
guess I have so far.  In any case I filed an issue here: 
http://drupal.org/node/276018

--mark

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:17:54 -0700, mark burdett wrote:
> 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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