A useful ourmedia/ccpublisher?

By Veggieryan on 2 Apr 2006 at 19:29 UTC

something I have been thinking alot about lately....
..I love the ourmedia publisher based on ccpublisher.
BUT.. its too much for my typical users to upload a file to one site, copy the file link and paste into yet another form on their website...
yet its crucial to have large video files hosted freely at ourmedia...

.. what about a ccpubisher or ourmedia.org publisher type app that was web based and allowed you to publish your media to a cck field indirectly by posting it to ourmedia and linking to it remotely but looking as though it is a part of your site.... the media appears in many places at once, but is hosted freely by ourmedia... another related cck field would be like a subscribe to ourmedia.org... you just enter your username and tags or the url of the file..see flickrstickr.module for example... OR subscribe to a node or taxonomy on another drupal site of yours... cool.. see publish.module and subscribe.module.. we should integrate these into cck fields!!! another field type is the actual drag and drop and tag window whichs puts the media on ourmedia.org and simultaneous subscribes your new node to the media file via a local media template just like video.module does.. COOL....

doable?
my paypal account is ready.
thanks!
ryan grace
thefractal.org realenergy.net

Comments

sounds great

3dsoft commented 3 April 2006 at 11:59

I like this idea very much. Any comments from a developer?

remote hosting..

Dublin Drupaller commented 3 April 2006 at 13:30

That is a very good idea.

At the moment I have one project that uses ourmedia/archive.org to store very large audio and video downloads. Very handy, especially as it's a very busy podcast and vodcast with high traffic.

And it's possible to stream from those sites seamlessly on any site, as if it was on the same server.

But, if get you correctly, what you are proposing is a remote-content.module where content that is submitted (let's say audio/video/large images) are automatically uploaded into a remote-hosting account and the links are registered in the local Drupal database.

Google are starting to offer a remote-content hosting service, as are the ones you mentioned and the ones I already use i.e. archive.org/ourmedia.org. There's also scope for a Drupaller to host rich content on a seperate server in their control for a project (such as copyrighted content on a server specifcially built for high speed content delivery).

So a generic remote-content-hosting.module might just require a settings page with (a) the link to the server/folder where the content is to be stored and (b) the login details required to put content there.

..the hooks take care of the rest, i.e. as you're submitting content, it is automatically and seamlessly uploaded to the remote-host.

If that's what you mean....it's not just a good idea...it's a superb idea. Especially if the remote-hosting guys took care of high traffic and (very) regular backups.

Dub

Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate

I know!!!

Veggieryan commented 10 April 2006 at 08:06

Well,
I can't believe there isn't more interest in this. This is very web 2.0
We are in the calm before the STORM that is 4.7..
I am also wondering if better rss aggregator features are needed.
For instance... you have your ourmedia account(or an account on any drupal site).. you upload your videos and catagorize them.
You are a member of another independent drupal website and have your own "user" aggregator area AND a group aggregator.. (og helper module? killes....????)
Then the people that are your editors and chief content contributors can optionally be allowed to have their media feeds placed in a feed queue for approval!
On your user profile would be a link ( add your own news feed )
On the og group summary would be an aggergator feeds table and a link to add a "group feed" only if you are a member....
Feeds are then submitted for approval by an admin OR the group...
All feeds would be categorized of course...
Feeds could be more flexible allowing dumb users to just add single file links at a time since RSS etc is above most peoples heads.... BTW drupal needs to make syndication more usable.. syndication.module is a good step but more clear links per node need to be optional.. (subscribe to more ____'s like this one... or create a playlist of this category...)
Again we need support for user taxonomies and group taxonomies... sigh...
The media in the feeds would of course need wrappers that handle the different ways of embedding media... downloading vs. streaming.. playing as if it were a local media file vs. linking directly to the original media at ourmedia. (Or any other drupal site!!!) This should be core aggregator stuff... would be SO powerful..
another idea... user's playlist could become feeds in the user feeds page.... rss feeds on the fly...

whew!
that was fun.
toodles,
------------------------------
Ryan Grace
Webdev&design
Internal Combustion Retrofits
www.realenergy.net
www.veggiecarvan.com
www.puntamona.org
www.thefractal.org

We like it

JD Lasica commented 1 July 2006 at 00:53

hey, ryan, great stuff. let me discuss with our team.

have you seen our new effort, the openmediacoalition.org ?

and have you seen our new craigslist call for a web-savvy designer/art director?

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/med/176501441.html

Anything new on this?

Rick Hood commented 16 December 2006 at 13:40

I am looking for this too

>>> publish media (audio & video) to ourmedia.org from within a Drupal site (instead of putting media on the same server that the Drupal site is on)

and just wondering if there is anything new on this.

I'm working on a blip.tv

tomski777 commented 21 December 2006 at 16:18

I'm working on a blip.tv plugin for the video module - it should be ready in its basic form sometime over christmas (ready for feedback) - It:

1. Greatly simplifies the whole upload process.
2. Has a single view page (not tabs with play etc)
3. Uploads your video & seamlessly transfers it to blip.tv
4. Blip.tv converts it to flash.
5. The module checks with blip.tv to see if the conversion is complete & displays the video when its ready.
6. Uses blip.tv's javascript library & flash player (no advertising).

I've managed to get everything working - i'm now in a bug checking / tidy up stage & preparing it for a beta release to the drupal community.

><>tomskii
><>www.theanthillsocial.co.uk

I should also mention that

tomski777 commented 21 December 2006 at 16:37

I should also mention that blip.tv has a function that automatically cross posts to ourmedia.org. So the module I described above could in-a-roundabout-way post to ourmedia....
Tom

><>tomskii
><>www.theanthillsocial.co.uk

I have a project that could

courtney commented 28 February 2007 at 05:24

I have a project that could use this functionality. Did you finish the module? Is it available for download and testing?

Thanks!

Hi Courtney , sorry for the

tomski777 commented 9 March 2007 at 19:47

Hi Courtney ,
sorry for the delay i've been away!

If you would like a copy of the module, then please send a request to "info (at) theanthillsocial.co.uk" though be warned, this is a production version for 4.7 which is working very well on a site we've produced but has to get full testing out in the wild - though it would be very good to get feedback....

Ta
tom

><>tomskii
><>www.theanthillsocial.co.uk