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MediaMosa, an Open Source Drupal Module, has been released

Today, Mediamosa has been released. It is hard to describe what it does, but the picture above should give you a hint..

From the website, you can read that MediaModsa

[...] is a state-of-the-art, scalable Middleware Media Distribution Platform and facilitates access to, and usage of (shared) storage capacity, metadata databases, transcoding- and streaming servers. The platform offers functionality for searching, playing, uploading, transcoding, as well as a fine granularity media access control system towards its users.

You can see MediaMosa as a Drupal Module that provides central storage, publishing and transcoding functionality. A Media Asset Manager Hub on steroids! It was developed by/for SURFnet, an academic network in the Netherlands. Dutch readers are encouraged to read the pressrelease.

It is not easy to understand or easy to install, but please give it a try on your localhost if you are into Media (management) and Drupal. Many broadcasters are already looking at this in the Netherlands. Great job!

By bertboerland at 30/06/2009 - 10:04 | drupal | english | film | GNU | Happy | intellectual property | media | mp3 | sound | tv | xml | bertboerland's blog

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English Press Release

Hi,

Just a quick addition. An English press release is available at:
http://www.surfnet.nl/en/nieuws/Pages/SURFnetandStichtingKennisnetexpandvideoplatformhorizonsbygoingopen-source.aspx

By Elise Roders (not verified) at Tue, 30/06/2009 - 2:55pm | login or register to post comments

Looks promising

Hello Bert,

I'm currently finishing a site of a Creative Archive for the portuguese public broadcaster. The mediamosa project looks promising.

Right now the site is in D5 (it was started long ago) and uses a set of rules implemented through the rules module (called workflow_ng in D5).

We have several types of Creative Commons licenses. Right there's no transcoding, since I'm thinking od splitting the asset management and transcoding from the web frontend. I'm thinking along the lines of REST like interfaces. The frontend communicates with the asset management backend which communicates with the transcoding backend.

Both the web frontend and the asset management are Drupal sites. But the transcoding would be left to you. I'm thinking of a bare bones thing like rack+sinatra in Ruby. Just a couple of routes. Avoiding teh need for complex route handling like the one that Drupal menu system provides.

I've browsed the docs and downloaded the tarball. I would like to know more about the architecture. The Wiki seems to be empty and per the docs my dutch is a little bit rusty ;)

I really think that there's a great opportunity for broadcasters to use Drupal as a sort of of-the-shelf web facing solution for asset management and distribution.

Good work and I'm looking forward for more info about the project.

By perusio (not verified) at Thu, 02/07/2009 - 8:33pm | login or register to post comments