Is the Media module an alternative / replacement to the Video module? For Drupal 7+ … ?

Media module doesn't have any video handling features yet.

There is no any playback defined with Media module yet for videos. It will play videos fro YouTube embed only for D7 version at the moment.

It seems to me that they can (or could) be used in combination.
- video module providing conversion
- media providing a unified field to upload any media (so you can have a video field accepting youtube, vimeo and local files)
- and maybe videojs module to display these uploaded video files

At least this is how I would like to setup a new site. I will try to report here if it is possible or not.

I'm trying to do this (#4) at the moment too. Has anyone made any progress?

The problem appears to be that the video and jsvideo modules need to add display hooks to make it media aware. So when uploading a video (of whatever type) and attempting to place the video in a wysiwyg editor field that is has a style format to render it.

In the video file type I have attempted to set the display to just list a link to the media element, but no love. I'm also a little annoyed that the image, audio, video, and document entities are not "real" entities in Drupal and thus not visible to anything but the media browser in the media module.

What is even more frustrating is much of the video issues have been resolved for the module on Drupal Gardens, yet none of the improvements appears to have been committed back to the community. :(

So for now I'd look else where as the Media module (being 2+ years from release) is no where ready for prime time. :(

I've been working on getting the Video upload form integrated into the Media module's browser as a plugin. I've run into a few little stupid things that it looks like people have requested and the maintainers of media have outright rejected or not seen as useful. If/when I can get the upload form working I'll post something here, but it won't be until at least January or February.

@dlumberg: I'm not sure exactly what issues in Media you are referring to that we've outright rejected? If a change or issue is important to helping integrate Media and Video together I would be sure to be giving it serious consideration. Feel free to ping me in IRC.

My intention is to make the Video module bugfree as it is in its current form and perhaps look into integrating it with the Media module later.

I wrote a module that adds media browser support to the video widget it's in a sandbox here:

http://drupal.org/sandbox/dlumberg/1364538

Thanks for creating this submodule! I will look at it soon. Are you planning to turn it into a full project? Or will it remain a sandbox project? I think it is best to choose one of those options and not add it to th video module because it allows you to release separately from the video module.

Thanks for creating this submodule! I will look at it soon. Are you planning to turn it into a full project? Or will it remain a sandbox project? I think it is best to choose one of those options and not add it to th video module because it allows you to release separately from the video module.

I'm planning on turning it into a full project, I just wanted to get some feedback before I submitted it.

I have added it to the Video module homepage, I hope you get good responses and that you can turn it into an actual project.