Difficult Starter Kit (DSK)

Please Note: These starter kits are no longer supported, and most of the relevant Community Media modules have been forked as part of the Community Media Advanced initiative.

We created this fork to provide a central place to host all community media modules that are in ongoing development, and to facilitate new releases.

We are doing this under the terms of GPL version 2, and using Drupal branch/ tag/ release conventions on Github so that new releases can be shown on the Available updates Drupal page the same way they are for modules hosted on drupal.org.

The following organizations have undertaken this Community Media Advanced initiative together (listed alphabetically as of July 2017):

Amherst Media, Brattleboro Community Television (BCTV), Easton Community Access Television (ECAT), High Five Access Media (HFAM), Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), Open Signal PDX, ORCA Media, PhillyCAM, Regional Educational Television Network (RETN), St. Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN), Vermont Community Access Media (VCAM)

For more information please visit cmadvanced.org

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The Difficult Start Kit is used differently than the Easy and Moderate kits. It is unlikely that a station would ever use all the modules in the Difficult Kit. The Difficult Kit is used primarily to track the versions of module that are shared by large stations like channelAustin and Manhattan Neighborhood Network.

This forms the base of the contrib and contrib-cm layers that each stations customizations are built on.

Configuring Media Derivatives API on OSX with MAMP and ffmpegX

Configuring the Media Derivatives API module requires ffmpeg. There are dozens of tutorials on configuring FFMPEG for Ubunutu or your

Customizing the Admin Toolbar

The Admin Toolbar was added to core in Drupal 7. In earlier versions of Drupal, there were several modules that added similar administrative

Enabling Large File Uploads

There are several popular Drupal modules for handling file uploads, but these modules aren't designed to deal with the large video files

Managing Your Own Infrastucture

Pantheon provides a dev, test, and live instance for every site, but there is cost to that. Organizations who can successfully manage their

Meeting Agendas and Chapters

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Moving from Features to a "Real" Modules

Features are a great way to start a module, but it limits another sites options for capturing their changes in code.

Playback Server Integration

Basic playback server integration is supported in the Easy version of the Community Media Starter Kit (ESK) in the form of Feeds importers

Reservations

This documentation is concerning the 2.x version of Reservations.

Scheduling a Playback Server from Drupal

An Airing can be populated by a playback server and used to simply display a schedule in Drupal. The steps to Pull Airings into Drupal

Sub Sites - when www isn't enough

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Guide maintainers

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