Drupal 7 Media modules

Drupal 7 Media Modules (Media, Media Gallery, etc.) Grigory NAUMOVETS Kiev, Ukraine

Outline
[why] Do we need more modules to manage media?
Media module:
features, advantages, problems
1.x and 2.x branches
Media Gallery module:
features, advantages, problems
Other media-related modules: MediaElement, Media Browser Plus, MediaFront
Conclusions

Site content
Text content
Nodes
Comments
Blocks
Views
etc.
Media (file) content
Managed files (have their own File ID in the system)
Unmanaged files (are not known to the system – just linked from somewhere)

Managed files in Drupal 7
Drupal 7 has database tables ‘ file_managed ’ and ‘ file_usage ’ keeping track of managed files: file ID, name, URI, size, type, user and module responsible for this file, etc.
But there is no user interface to manage these ‘managed files’!

[Text] Content administration
/admin/content – [node] content administration
Also, we can administer comments, blocks, views, etc…
but how can we administer MEDIA???

Filefield <- media file
Regular File upload widget: How can we use one file in many nodes? We can only duplicate it – WTF???
We want to:
Re-use one file in many fields
Organize media (tags, directories, etc.)

List of f ile u ploading and m anaging modules
groups.drupal.org/node/20291
Database File manager, FileDepot, File Framework, Filemanager, File maintenance, WebFM, Upload paths, Filefield paths, etc. etc. etc.
Many of these are obsolete/abandoned/rarely used
No full-featured solution yet

Media module
Available only for Drupal 7
Reported installs: >39,000 (Feb. 2012)
Branches:
7.x-1.x – recommended (features freezed, bugfixes only)
7.x-2.x – unstable (with new improvements)
Requirements:
Javascript must be enabled
CTools
Media 7.x-2.x relies on Views and File entity (fieldable files); 7.x-1.x has File entity included inside
Media module development was sponsored by: Acquia, Advomatic, and Palantir.net

Installing Media module… Now we have:
New field type: Multimedia asset
New widget: Media File Selector Media Library

We also have… Content types »… » Manage display New display formatter: Media

File display format should be defined for the appropriate file type (“bundle”) – Image, Audio, Video, Other
/admin/config/media/file-types

Configuring file display for each file type admin/config/media/file-types/manage/video/file-display File view modes – ‘Default’, ‘Link’, ‘Preview’, ‘Small’, ‘Large’, ‘Original’, etc.; you need to save settings separately for each mode Display precedence order is important – e.g. when you need to display videos from YouTube, ‘YouTube Video’ display should go before ‘MediaElement Video’ etc.

Media Library: now media content can be managed like node content
/admin/content – Node content administration
/admin/content/media – Media content administration
new tab for Media administration

Media administration
/admin/content/media
We can choose LIST view or THUMBNAIL view

Media items in the list have their own URLs and can be viewed/edited like nodes
/media/45/edit edit Media item
/media/45 view Media item

Viewing Media items like nodes /media/[fid] Media item URL [fid] is File ID from ‘file_managed’ table

So, Media module does not create a ‘Media Library’ table in the database
It uses the tables that Drupal 7 already has: ‘file_managed’ and ‘file_usage’
But it adds new fields to define new properties of media files: ‘Title’ and ‘Description’ field_data_media_title, field_data_media_description field_revision_media_title, field_revision_media_description

Editing Media items ‘ Title ’ and ‘ Description ’ of items in Media Library are DIFFERENT from ‘ Title ’ and ‘ Alternate text ’ properties of images in Image field and ‘ Description ’ property of files in File field They are NOT shown when displaying images or file attachments in the usual way Modules displaying media should be able to handle media titles and descriptions (e.g. Media Gallery)

Under the hood: Media title and description
These are different values kept in different database tables than ‘File description’ and ‘Image title’ properties available for File/Image fields

Adding files to Media Library via Upload
With Plupload plugin, we can upload multiple files by drag-n-dropping them here

Adding media from web
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via media_vimeo.module via media_youtube.module
With some additional modules, we can add to the Media Library media from YouTube, Vimeo, and other supported providers

Adding media from Remote URL
Remote stream wrapper module: now we can add remote media to the Media Library without copying the files to our server
via remote_stream_wrapper.module

Importing files to Media Library from another directory
In this way, we can import files bigger than maximum size allowed for PHP upload (upload files by FTP to some directory, then import to Media Library)

Using media from Media Library in File/Image fields
Now we have a new widget type: Media file selector

Media file selector widget
Selecting media from Library

However, some things are missing… With regular Image widget, we have “ Alternate text ” and “ Title ” that we can display near/over the image

What we see with the regular Image widget Image Title displayed in a lightbox view

With Media File selector widget
We can edit ‘ Title ’ and ‘ Description ’ of this item in Media Library, but we cannot display them in the same way as we display “Alternate text” and “Title” image properties
It’s really a disappointment   
Same problem with ‘ File description ’ for File fields   
“ Alternate text ” and “ Title ” image properties are no longer available. WTF???

Referencing media from Library inline in textarea fields
TinyMCE, CKEditor: enable ‘Media browser’ plugin or add ‘Media’ button
File display modes (Configuration » Media » File types » Manage file display)

Media input filter should be enabled to convert media tags into markup
Media tags look like that:
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_preview","fid":"44","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"180","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"180"}}]]

Removing media from a node
Removing a media file from a node does not delete it from the Media Library

Removing files from Media Library
… /admin/content/media
You cannot delete a media file which is in use somewhere until you remove it from all the nodes
Sometimes it’s kind of frustrating…

Media Gallery module
Depends on Media module
Understands ‘Title’ and ‘Description’ attributes of media files
Can display images and videos in the same gallery
Developed by the engineering team at Acquia

Viewing all galleries

We can have images and videos in the same gallery Media Title displayed on hover These are videos

Images and videos can be displayed inline or in a pop-up colorbox
Media Gallery can display both Title and Description of media items
Media Gallery calls Colorbox library independently of Colorbox module
Integration with Colorbox module (to use its features and settings) requires some patching

It’s easy to add, reorder, and edit media in the gallery Edit or Remove Reorder items by dragging the handle to a new position Add media with Media File selector

Editing gallery settings
It’s easy to set for each specific gallery the number of rows and columns, media display inline or in a pop-up box, etc.

Displaying LOCAL video files (not from YouTube, Vimeo, etc.)
For this, you may need to install and configure some media player - e.g. MediaElement player (Drupal module integrating MediaElement.js library)
May not work in a pop-up box

Configuring file display settings for Video admin/config/media/file-types/ manage/video/file-display

Media Gallery problems: Theme-dependent
Theme-dependent problems (e.g. for Adaptivetheme and related themes)
Broken display of “All Galleries” page (may need some css tweaking)
Drag handles not displayed: how can you reorder items now? (may need some patching)

Media Gallery problems: Colorbox
Colorbox-related problems:
Clicking on the colorbox (not on the arrows) does not work as expected: it leads to “View Detail page” instead of showing the next item in the gallery (may need some css patching)
Media Gallery work with Colorbox directly; integration with Colorbox module (to use all its features and settings) may require some patching

Media Gallery problems: Taxonomy
Strange things with Taxonomy:
Media Gallery creates ‘Gallery collections’ vocabulary with ‘Galleries’ term in it, but they are not visible and not editable in admin/structure/taxonomy interface
Conflicts with i18n_taxonomy reported

So, Media Gallery still needs some
File tools

… more than you could expect from a module creating quite a lot of tables in the database

Problems with Media
Organize Media (with lots of items in Media Library, you need to structurize it somehow via folders, tags, etc. – like you do with your boomarks or email)
Handling media attributes (Media’s ‘Title’ and ‘Description’ vs Image’s “Title’ and “Alt text’ and File’s ‘Description’)

Media Browser Plus module
Works with Media 7.x-1.x and 7.x-2.x branches
UI and functional improvements (multiple selection, media search, etc.)
Organizing Media: folders, tags, etc.

Media 7.x-2.x branch
‘ Media’ is now called ‘Files’: /admin/content/file instead of /admin/content/media

Media 7.x-2.x branch: core File field instead of Media field
And it’s not just name change: now we are supposed to work with the core File field instead of ‘Multimedia asset’ fields (which are deprecated)

One more change: Integration with Views . Now we have ‘View Library’ selection mode

And this ‘MediaBrowser’ view is editable

MediaFront module
Integration of OSM media player
Plays both local and remote (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) video
Integration with Views: can create video galleries displayed as playlists in media player’s window
Detailed video tutorial: http://youtu.be/k7tbGXjMRWQ

MediaFront: a video gallery displayed as a playlist

How to re-use files in file fields without Media File selector?
FileField Sources module/widget

References
James Gollan’s presentation http://youtu.be/8pHoGZBv47c
Drupalcon Chicago presentation http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/media http://www.slideshare.net/JacobSingh/multimedia-handing-in-drupal-7-done-better-with-the-media-module

Questions?
Contact info:
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