By bitshift on

Im currently using D5 for my project and Im exploring every option I can find to enable the following
- user, who is a member of a given role, can create a single type of node or content type
- that single content type will allow for both text fields, images and videos
- I could handle an extra content type, but no more than one.
- the videos should be converted on-the-fly to flash video (flv) much like the FlasVideo or Gallery2 modules do

So far, Ive looked at the VideoUpload, FlashVideo, Video and Gallery modules. The only one that came close is Gallery but I really dont to manage two different code bases with seperate patch schedules etc. FlashVideo was really slick and I might use it on other projects, but right now I need per-user albums, that would potentially allow multiple users the ability to for example, upload "my dog.avi" or "uncle bob.avi"

Anyone got any suggestions ? Im currently using D5, but Im willing to move to D6, although Ubercart support will be needed also and its not quite D6 ready.

Help!

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bitshift commented

I think I just realized what I need, after typing all that jibberish in my original post. IMCE and TinyMCE should do the trick. This will get me personal directories and the ability for the user to upload and display as many images or videos as they have the space limit for. Now, on the video part, TinyMCE will work with the following formats, although there might be others
Flash (.swf)
Windows media (.wmv)
Quicktime (.mov)
Shockwave
ReamMedia (.rm)

So, if the user wants to have the video stream when its played, instead of being downloaded first, I will just have to make them aware theat they should first convert their non-streaming content into a streaming format before uploading and embedding it.

Using IMCE and TinyMCE is far simpler than setting up Gallery, which is overkil for my needs.

Ive also been looking at some newer album-related modules that are coming out for D6, and they look nice, but for the needs of my current project, I think the route I started with (imce + tinymce) will do just fine.

I guess one benefit of all this, is that im now much more familiar with Drupal and nearly every video and image related module there is. To-date, ive installed and configured probably two dozen or more modules, built and rebuilt both D5 and D6 installations several times over. Drupal is quickly becoming my favorite platform to build on. Sooner or later I intend to get around to writing some modules of my own ive been thinking about.

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> I guess one benefit of all this, is that im now much more familiar with Drupal and nearly every video and image related module there is. To-date, ive installed and configured probably two dozen or more modules, built and rebuilt both D5 and D6 installations several times over.

lol.... funny how one person can be pessimistic about this experience and another not; I just spent the last few weeks doing the same and thought it was a complete PITA and a waste of energy. My deadline has had to be delayed at least a month, and I *still* don't have a good (read: easy and appropriate) solution for handling images and media in a standardised layout.

By the way, I just discovered that IMCE doesn't appear to work in Opera 9.5. That's 2%+ of your users. Awesome module, but since I've been an Opera user for years it came as a bit of a blow to have to dump it and tell my users that Opera cannot be supported. I've spent the last two evenings trying to set-up FF to mimic Opera and its excellent work flow.