Media

#D7CX: Media module beta3 mostly works with Drupal 7.0, but there are some critical issues that still must be fixed before we release 1.0. Want to help?

File browser to the Internet...

Features

• Add media of all types (Images, Audio, Video, Documents) into any textarea (requires Wysiwyg module)
• Use the fields API (formerly CCK) to add fields to any type of media. Think captions on images and genres on audio.
• Flexible display filters to do on-the-fly image manipulation, flash based players for A/V, etc (with the Styles module)
• Plugins to use remote media from sites like youtube, flickr, etc
• A unified interface for adding adding any type of media as a field to a node (or in the future - users and terms as well).
• Administration screens for CRUD dealing with Media
• Mass import of files
• Drag and drop upload (w/ plupload module)
• Multiple selection for galleries, etc in the media browser

Features (In progress)

• Drop-in replacement for any file upload field in Drupal

Features (Planned)

• Fine grained access control for viewing / editing media
• Many many more :)

More details

Media Browser

The Media module provides a file browser for your web site that allows editors to easily access and seamlessly insert local files and remote streams into fields and text areas. Combined with the Styles and Wysiwyg modules, this solution harnesses the power of Drupal 7's new file/stream system.

Media Entity

An extensible system, this also provides a fieldable media asset entity, allowing the easy addition of any fields to media, such as text fields for metadata. In addition, you can customize these fields for each "type" of media, e.g. Image, Audio, Document, Video.

Pluggable system w/ 3rd party integration

Several modules, such as Media: YouTube and Media: Flickr, plug into the provided API, allowing an editor to browse through remote YouTube videos or Flickr photos as though they were part of the local file system.

Installation

Required modules:

• Styles

Optional modules:

• Wysiwyg
• Media Gallery
• Media Browser Plus
• MediaElement
• Media: Flickr
• Media: YouTube
• Multiple forms
• Plupload

Developer Info:
Updated!!!!
This module is a D7 only module, and the only maintained branch is HEAD.

The media_dev profile is a good starting point.

Historical

Current Maintainers

• aaron with Advomatic
• effulgentsia with Acquia
• james.elliott with Acquia

Other maintainers

This module has been developed since October 2008 with valuable assistance and input from some of the most respected names in Drupal media and file handling. It would not exist without an initial push by arthurf, dopry, drewish, Alex UA and others, nor without some valuable attention during the GSOC by jmstacey and pwolanin, and a follow-up sprint also including Jody Lynn and mverbaar. Its current iteration exists in large part due to the efforts of the following: (However, see the maintainer list for a more comprehensive (but still incomplete) list of contributors.)

Note: Some of what is below is quite outdated at this point.

• Original Media Module F.A.Q.
• DEMO (proof of concept): http://24b6.net/2009/01/09/media-sprint-prototyping
• SPRINT (ongoing development): http://aaronwinborn.com/blogs/aaron/media-code-sprint-january-2008 and http://groups.drupal.org/node/18063
• Original roadmap of planned milestones for development

(Initial development by arthurf at the Media Code Sprint (January 2009), with input from aaron, dopry, Roger López, oweno, drewish, Manuel Garcia gusaus and others.)

Please see the Media group for more information about this module.