I've been testing this module out for the ability to pull newly created Blip links in order to store them in a CCK Embedded Media Field. I thought this module could do that but it is not clear to my how to configure it to do so - that is if it could ever do this at all.

This is my understanding so far:

Its like there is missing link at the end of the Media Mover process. I created a custom content type with both a Video Media Field and a Blip Emfield. I find the four steps in Media Mover should look like this:

Harvest - On cron, "harvest file from upload field" assuming I am using the upload module to attach video files.

Process - Nothing, not necessary for this example I suppose.

Storage - With mm_bliptv, "move file to blip.tv service" which involves making a connection with a Blip.tv account and uploading the file.

Complete - This is the missing link. With only the Media Mover and mm_bliptv installed there seems to be no method for capturing the original-URL of the new Blip post with the mm_bliptv module. Seems like work needs to be done to the module to make this possible, unless I am just missing something.

How do I return the blip post address back to something like emfield on the complete stage?

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mlncn CreditAttribution: mlncn commented
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The second call to _mm_bliptv_send() is quite redundant. Instead, something like this is needed to get the blip.tv embed code. (Does anyone know how to actually use &%*&$ xpath?)

We're doing this hackily in the theme layer for now, but something like it should work in a module:

        $url = $node->media_mover[1][0]['storage_file'];
        $rss = file_get_contents($url .'?skin=rss');
//        print $rss;
        if (!$rss)  break;
//        $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($rss);
//        $xml = simplexml_load_file($rss);
//        $xml->register_ns('rss', 'http://purl.org/rss/1.0/');        
        /* Search for <blip:embedLookup> */
//        $embed = $xml->xpath('/rss/channel/item'); 
// drupal_set_message('<pre>'. var_export($embed,TRUE) .'</pre>');
        $needle = '<blip:embedLookup>';
        $needle_length = 18; // strlen($needle);
        // will it always be 7 characters?  k2mqri8
        // if not we'll need to use a regular expression

        $needle2 = '</blip:embedLookup>';

        // we know there's a lot of unnecessary stuff in the rss file
        // so we can skip the first 2,200 characters or so
        $loc = strpos($rss, $needle, 200);
        $loc = $loc + $needle_length;

        $needle2 = '</blip:embedLookup>';
        $loc2 = strpos($rss, $needle2, $loc);
        $length = $loc2 - $loc;
  
        $embed = substr($rss, $loc, $length);
  
  

        $output = '<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/' . $embed . '" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="350" height="293" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" />';
//        $embed = $xml->xpath('/rss/channel/item/media:player');        
// drupal_set_message('<pre>'. var_export($embed,TRUE) .'</pre>');
//      	$output = $embed;
      	print $output;

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