Topic: Development

Video for Drupal Multimedia Panel at DrupalCon

Here’s the video for the Drupal Multimedia panel at DrupalCon. Presenting were Arthur Foelsche, Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg, and myself. By the way, the dev version of Embedded Media Field now supports Archive.org. Hopefully the Drupalcon site will install the module so we can see all the videos directly from that site; even if not, I’m sure

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File API Panel and Follow-Up Media BOF

Wednesday afternoon/evening (starting at 5:15), Andrew Morton (drewish) and I will be co-presenting The Future of Files and Media in Drupal 7, where we’ll talk about the big changes to the File API from 6 to 7, and efforts to backport some of the functionality into 6. Following this, we’ll segue into a BOF with

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Embedded Media Field Provider Tutorial

FYI, I’m planning to do a Dojo session (using DimDim) sometime hopefully early this week around Embedded Media Field, with the following goals: * Create a provider file for Hulu.com: This will cover the basic steps to create an include file for emfield, with a basic video provider who provides an API. As Hulu.com implements

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Thumbnails Stored Locally with Embedded Media Field

As you can see here, thumbnails are now stored locally with Embedded Media Field. This opens the way to ImageCache integration and more. This example also makes use of a new formatter, which uses jQuery to replace the thumbnail with an inline video, so that cookies aren’t sent to the provider unless the user clicks

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Cufón, an Alternative to sIFR for Image Replacement

I was struggling with sIFR yet again this morning, an odd WSOD in IE7 and other problems. John Haas showed me Cufón as a replacement, and I was quickly impressed with its potential. The project promises cross-browser compatibility with no plug-ins (bye, bye, Flash!), as well as being fast and easy. Image Replacement with Cufon!

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Media Sprint TODO?

The Media Sprint 2009 Wiki has a rough outline, based on an earlier document started by arthurf, but needs some serious fleshing out. I plan to begin working in earnest again on the sprint later next week and the following (am trying to slot 3-4 solid working days towards it). There are also several volunteers

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Media: YouTube (PHP Stream Wrapper)

The future of Drupal Multimedia is now! The Media Sprint: 2009 is continuing to build up steam. I met with the folks at Zivtech in Philly yesterday, and we banged on the Media module some more. Jody Hamilton made improvements, fixing up a few things, ensuring the browser works with multiple fields, etc. I continued

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