I've investigated into the code of the module to see if I can add video support to Picasa album.
In my opinion the code of this module is a bit confusing due to its original purpose to generate a gallery from a local folder.

So I believe it would be a better approach to move the Picasa gallery feature into a separate module.
This would also make it easier for someone who want to import Picasa gallery only instead of from a local folder.

I've written the new module already, and waiting for my new cvs account to upload it.
The new module supports both images and videos from a Picasa album RSS feed.
Picasa album can be added to content through filter, just like Brilliant Gallery.

Once I have uploaded the new module I will update the info here.

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solarflysam commented

Please post the link when you upload the module as i would love to use it, having problems with this as the text box is not big enough to take the rss link for my picasa web album

sam

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benkewell commented
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well the administrator for Drupal CVS denied my request
they suggest me to integrate the module into the more complete module "Picasa"
http://drupal.org/project/picasa

as i believe there should be some other users want to have Picasa RSS filter only
instead of the full function package like Picasa
i upload my module here for download

Usage:
after activating the module, there would be a new input format filter called "Picasa Album Tag"
enable the filter for the input format you want
after that a Picasa RSS feed can be added in content by [picasa|url/to/picasa/rss]
the filter will load the photos and videos from Picasa,
generate an album, and display it at the position the tag locates

p.s.:
the module states that it requires Lightbox2 to work
but in fact it works well even without Lightbox2
in case your site don't use Lightbox2,
you can safely remove the dependency in the .info file

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kpalaniuk commented

Thanks so much! I was waiting for this! I am very happy that you made a picasa tag that works. However, When I use it, it defaults the albums into one column. To me, this looks strange and I would like to be able to change the number of colums and other settings, just like Brilliant Gallery. Is this possible? Also, is there any way to get captions to show as well as other metadata?

Thanks! I await your reply.

Kyle Palaniuk

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benkewell commented

i'm not quite understand with the one column problem
the images should be displayed as inline elements,
so they should flow along with the content just like other text
maybe you can check the CSS of the page
and see if there's anything controlling the album's DIV width?

you may freely theme the album by overriding the template files in the module directory
but I forgot if the code includes the meta data in the template's variables...
maybe you can check the code if you're familiar with that?