add process config: zip-compression!

Hi digital.wannabe-

Thanks for the interest. First, files like flv, mpeg, jpg, gif, etc. do not really benefit from gzip or zip as they are compressed formats already. For text files or other kinds of files, this would be a great item, but not so much for standard video, audio, images.

As per your question about originals- Media Mover does not alter or move original files unless the module you are using specifies it. So for example, if you harvest files from a node, those files are still attached to the node. Currently only the FTP module actually removes files if requested.

As per an order, you can make a configuration that harvests from an other configuration, effectively making a child configuration. In the future there maybe some ordering possibilities, but this is all that is currently in place.

best,

arthur

I heard from friend that he has problem to download mp3 files in work because of firewall settings they have. So for him zip file will be good.

I just finished module which I will use to compress videos on Windows machine with Sorenson Squeeze. It allows you to define custom command and use tokens, so it can be used for different things.

In your case you can:
- add process action 'Custom Command: Use custom command'
- in config of action define 'Output file' as for example 'video-[nid].zip' and set command to 'zip [output_file] [harvested_file]'

You can find it here: http://drupal.org/node/342425

Oh sorry, I didn't look issue is for version 5.x-5.1. Module I created is for 6.x.

I am not sure, but maybe it will work in 5.x if you will change info file.

digital.wannabe - this is a pretty simple module to build. All you need to do is to define your module with the media_mover hook, and then make a process action- something like:

function mm_zip_process($file, $configuration) {
  // create the output file in the media mover files directory
  $output_file = media_mover_api_dir_path($configuration['module'] .'/'. $configuration['action']) .'/'. $file['harvest_file'] .'.zip';
  
  // get the path to the zip binary
  $zip_path = variable_get('mm_zip_path', '/bin/zip');

  // build the command
  $command = array($zip_path, $output_file, $file['harvest_file']);

  // run the command
  ob_start();
    passthru(implode(' ', $command), $command_return);
    $output = ob_get_contents();
  ob_end_clean();

  // return the zip file
  return $output_file;
}

Of course, you'd want to do some error checking, but it is pretty much that easy.

This is now in the D6 repo, will backport to D5. Works on process, storage, complete

This is now in D5, closing issue