Media

Last updated January 22, 2012. Created by choster on January 10, 2009.
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The Media module provides an extensible framework for managing files and multimedia assets, regardless of whether they are hosted on your own website or with a 3^rd party.

Media's aim is to solve Drupal's long standing media handling problem.

Currently there are hundreds of modules that deal with files and multimedia, which has led to an enormous amount of duplicate code and conflicting implementations. Consequently, it has prevented multimedia and file module maintainers from coordinating more closely, and has created a huge overhead for maintaining Drupal’s multimedia and file capabilities. The multiplicity of modules also contributes to the confusion experienced by Drupal users who are choosing the modules to use for their site, and makes it difficult for developers to figure out how best to contribute to multimedia and file module development.

The framework provided by the Media module is helping to unify many of the current multimedia and file efforts, acting as a springboard to future development. Interested developers can focus on their expertise or interests, without having to worry about file handling or the integration of their work with other developer’s modules.

Warning: The Media project is still in active development. Some documentation may not be up to date and may reference past releases of Media.

If you find a mistake or an omission in the documentation, create an issue in the media issue queue (when filing an issue, select the "Documentation" component).