The ever explanding Media Mover universe

Arthur Foelsche

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January 30, 2008

The ever explanding Media Mover universe

In the ever expanding world of Media Mover modules, I finally put together a quick module that handles some of the basic configuration of the JW Flash player. Largely, this helps reduce installation time as no custom theming is required to get the flash player on the page if you're using XSPF Playlist for your content delivery. With the new Views support for XSPF Playlist it's even easier to create channels of dynamic content to serve up to a flash player that supports the XSPF standard. For people interested in doing push content, this is a huge step forward in terms of integration with Drupal. Media Mover has also picked up meta tag support with the new FLV Tool2 module. This module relies on a Ruby tool to write the tags to a FLV file, and fits right into Media Mover Drupal six is looming on the horizon and Brandon from ChicagoTech is working on a Drupal 6 port of Media Mover, so that will soon be available! In the spirit of providing better documentation, I've setup Doxygen on Media Mover and have put the documentation up for people to use. Largely, it shows how much work there is to do, but at least it's there at this point. I'll probably provide a feed for the CVS HEAD, DRUPAL-5, and DRUPAL-6 at some point in the near future, as well as automate the generation so new work is easily found. media_mover.pngFinally, as the number of modules that help Media Mover work has expanded, understanding how all the modules work together has gotten much more complicated. I've put together this map to the Media Mover universe which should hopefully start explaining how all this stuff works together. You can read the latest about Media Mover on my personal site.

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