Can you put this module in context within the Drupal media landscape?

Hi,
The goal of this module is to provide a mean for Drupal site owners to easily store their videos on BlipTV. It does not provides video playback services; you have to use the (patched) cck emfield module to view the videos.

I saw the bliptv submodule for the video module, and I even considered porting it to Drupal 5. I do not remember exactly why, but I decided it would be better to write a new module instead (I think it had to do with the fact that we wanted to use cck to hold videos). However, I should give credit to this module for helping me understand how bliptv api works.

Media Mover is a great module than enables you to do a lot of things to your medias. If you want to convert your videos to flash and host them yourself, I think this is the way to go. However, if you want to save processing time and disk space, you can let bliptv do the work for you by using Media Actions. I also considered using Media Mover instead of writing a new module, but I wanted to automate the job of uploading the videos, something MM does not provide. I thought about using the workflow module for that, but it did not do exactly what I wanted to. I learned about the workflow_ng module afterward, which my do the job (I did not try it).

I did not have an in depth look to Drupal 6, but it seems that the Action module have been ported to the Drupal Core in the new trigger module. So I expect the Media Actions module to easily be ported to Drupal 6.

So, to sum it all up:
- video module: you need to port the bliptv submodule to Drupal 5/6; does not work with CCK nodes.
- MediaMover: did not have a bliptv solution at the time; do not automate the tasks of converting videos, but workflow_ng module could help you; can do a whole lot more than converting video; recommended solution if you want to convert and host videos on your own server.
- Media Actions: currently only manages uploading/deleting videos to bliptv; needs the Node Triggers module to fire up the actions; only works with CCK nodes but could be adapted for other node types. Recommended solution if you are using CCK and want BlipTV to convert and host your videos.

Hope this help,

Patrick

I'd be interested in integrating this into Media Mover- it should be possible to use this as a process module for Media Mover. Seems like some of the thinking is similar and the two could complement each other well. I'd be happy to work with you to make that happen.

Yes this is the patch. I dont think it was integrated into emfield yet. There was an issue with my decision of not caching bliptv data.

Thanks for everyone responding to clear things up a bit. I think we can mark this particular issue fixed now.