Drupal

Drupal 6 does not handle non-local files well. That means if you want to use something like Amazon's S3 file service you are pretty much out of luck. Media Mover got around this by overriding some templates but the implementation did not work well for extensibility and left most use cases in the dark.

This quick video shows some of the progress that was made at the NYC Media Sprint last week. While it departs from some of the earlier mockups that we did this past spring, this is functional in terms of browsing and is quite a bit better thought through- thanks to all the smart folks sitting around the table.

The XSPF Playlist module finally supports Views in a more appropriate way. Previously, you could get it to display a view by passing a view name to the module. This was cumbersome and didn't handle arguments for views well. Plus somebody would sooner or later figure out how to exploit it as it was giving way to much freedom to what was being passed via URL stream.

In the ever expanding word of Media Mover modules, I finally put together a quick module that handles some of the basic configuration of the JW Flash player. Largely, this helps reduce installation time as no custom theming is required to get the flash player on the page if you're using XSPF Playlist for your content delivery.