[TYPO3-project-4-3] File references, Multimedia

[Dan Osipov]

Steffen,

I understand that the TYPO3 core is supposed to be light, and extensions 
should handle everything, right? So, DAM is supposed to add all the 
multimedia processing for those who require it.

Now, DAM support for video is lacking, and your suggestion can be added 
there, right? Let me know, and we can integrate it into the next version 
of DAM - especially since we have some features for video planned for 
next version:
http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=10174
http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=9298

Dan Osipov
Calkins Media
http://danosipov.com/blog/

Steffen Kamper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i think presenting multimedia files like mp3, mp4 etc TYPO3 is far 
> behind other CMS systems. For me the multimedia CE is such unusable, as 
> you can't teach editors how to use (setting parameters like a HTML coder).
> 
> So i would like to enhance it and make usage much more simple. For this 
> it'S the best way i see to implement it with flash player, as this is 
> the common way streaming data in websites. To fullfil i would suggest to 
> add 2 files to contrib-dir:
> * player.swf
> * swfobjects.js
> 
> The player params could be stored in XML, eg the pi_flexform of 
> tt_content, so no additional fields are needed.
> 
> The seconf drawback is, that multimedia files mostly are very big, so 
> copy them to uploads will fail by size limit. Ingmar did a nice 
> extension (em_references) which allows with a flag not to copy the file 
> but create a reference. Unfortunally he needed to xclass 3 core files 
> for doing it, please have a look to this extension.
> 
> Any comments on this issue(s) are welcome.
> 
> vg Steffen