By szczym on

Helo

Me and my college Mick are investigating possibility for using drupal as Chanel creation software with intention of showing it to people during video podcasting workshops at retranssmision conference in london ( http://retransmission.org.uk/ ). As content aggregator we are going to use Democracy Player ( http://www.getdemocracy.com/ )

Why:
- because broadcast machine (video cms from creators of democracy player) is going to change in a while:
https://develop.participatoryculture.org/projects/democracy/wiki/Revenge...
- because now broadcast machine is buggy, for example:
http://forum.getdemocracy.com/viewtopic.php?id=377
- because there is no simple way of showing videos in browser in broadcast machine.

Pluses of drupal:
- all the common +++ of drupal ;)
- we (mick+me+folks at retransmision) know it.
- cvs version will have a installer (custom modules in "distribution" of drupal)
- the chanellguide runs drupal: https://channelguide.participatoryculture.org/

Minuses of drupal:
- need do mysql database (that is small problem but bm runs after plain ftp upload)
- cvs is cvs
- video module don't put "media:thumbnail" in feed and is "strange"

2 ways to do that:
- just use video module and kick it to send media:thumbnail from thumbnails attached via image module or:
- create content template via cck and print all the stuff (browser and rss) via views (minus is that this solution needs to do lots of mess up in templates)

Other solution is to use wordpress with that stuff:
http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/
But i don't know wordpress.

What do you thing about that solutions?
Are we taking the right path?
Or maybe you know some actual rumors about video podcasting on drupal platform?

cheers

Comments

geohelper’s picture

geohelper commented

Here is more info...
http://drupal.org/node/58432

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

http://willy.boerland.com/myblog/youtube_your_drupal_site

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

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fax8 commented

Well... using Drupal as a media delivering platform is IMHO a really good choice.
Modifying the video module (the video_image plugin) to send images is really a matter of minutes.

This is a feature we should have, so I suggest to create a feature request on video module issue tracker
http://drupal.org/project/issues/video then we developers we will be able to help you in the development
of this feature.

Start having a look at function video_nodeapi... this is really simple adding media:thumbnail to the feed.

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simplestation commented

If you are really looking for a great podcasting solution and are willing to give Python a try instead of PHP then check out the new Open Source MediaCore Podcasting Platform. The main difference between using Drupal or Wordpress to handle your podcasts and MediaCore is that MediaCore is built for podcasting. Drupal is a first and foremost a regular content management system (pages, files, blogs etc.), and Wordpress is a blogging engine. Since neither were built with podcasting in mind they have a large amount of bloat if all you want to do is podcast and share videos.

MediaCore is a free open source video, audio, and podcast publishing platform. It is built for organizations who wish to distribute media in a variety of formats on their website while maintaining the ability to control the user experience.

The purpose behind MediaCore was to make a central media library that could pull media from any source, track statistics, enable commenting, and provide a high degree of control over the presentation and administration.

Major features:

  • Users can browse videos or podcasts
  • Users can search for videos by topics and tags
  • Users can upload videos to the platform, administrators can moderate newly uploaded videos
  • Administrators can add video, audio, or podcasts
  • Comment platform and moderation is built-in
  • Podcasts can be video or audio
  • Automatic iTunes generation
  • Automatic RSS generation
  • Feedburner support

Check out the project:
http://getmediacore.com

View the screencast:
http://getmediacore.com/view/mediacore-screencast-demo

Demo:
http://getmediacore.com/demo

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sepeck commented

Please note that you created an account to respond to a 4 year old post in a deprecated forum.

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