Media Asset
Management
• Ramiro Gómez rgomez@lieblinx.net
• Oliver Grimm ogrimm@lieblinx.net
• Software Developers at lieblinx GmbH in
Berlin, Germany www.lieblinx.net

What will be covered?
• Media Upload
• Media Integration
• Media Storage
• How to manage media (open discussion)

Drupal Core Media
Features
• Upload module for various file types as node
attachments
• Basic image processing toolkit for resizing,
cropping, rotating and ?
• How to integrate non textual media?

Contrib Media Modules
• Asset Manager - The Solution to all your
problems!?
• Image
• Video
• OpenPackage Video
• Imagefield, Imagecache,....
• FlashVideo, SWF Tools

Asset Manager
• Today 11 am - the surprise
• Asset Manger - a management solution that
currently supports images
• Upload and content integration
• Other media like video, audio, etc. will
supported in future versions

Image module
• Images as nodes
• Pros: taxonomy, commenting, etc.
• Unless you are flickr you want to integrate
images in your content

Video Module
• Video upload, download, and display
• pros and cons - see image module

More Media Modules
• Too many to list them all
• To name a few: imagefield and imagecache

The Problem
• Which module to use?

The Answer
• Asset Manager

Wait!
• Current release of AM is a development
snapshot
• But it looks very good already

Media Integration
• Some options: plain html, tinymce, fckeditor,
content filters, CCK and theming

tinymce
• pros: „usability“, extensible
• cons: lots of JS, slow, complex

fckeditor
• pros: „usability“, extensible, content
templates, filemanager
• cons: lots of JS, slow, complex, safari not
supported

Media Storage
• All one one server: bad performance with lots
of media and traffic
• www.bloomstreet.net : ssh, filestore,
filemanager
• www.resistance-archive.org: Server mounted
as Samba share
• Media Mover module: Amazon S3, etc

Open discussion
• How to manage media?
• What are your approaches?

Thanks.