feeds

Here are some notes I pulled together for a discussion on using videoblogging with Drupal for Drupal Camp LA.

Some Questions

• Who is audience for your video content? How will they use it? (e.g., browsing political video archives vs. searching demo reels for video production teams).
• Who will post? User submitted? Admins or members? Access/permissions on Javascript and embeds.
• Who will host? Hosting services or your own?
• What formats do you need/want to support? Transcoding services?
• What kind of (meta)data do you wish to collect? Embeds vs. CCK. License info.
• What version of Drupal are you running?

Some Approaches

• Cut and paste code from sites like Archive, YouTube or blip.tv

Someone asked today if they could have separate feeds for each media type. That's easy, so you can now specify media types (audio, video, text, image):

• All media for user 3: http://ourmedia.org/mediarss/user/3

• All audio for user 3: http://ourmedia.org/mediarss/user/3/audio

• All audio and video for user 3: http://ourmedia.org/mediarss/user/3/audio,video