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

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi,

only FYI:
I've started this and have the following concept:
leave MULTIMEDIA CE as it is for compatibility,
use a flag, atm i use:
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['GFX']['useNewMultimediaCE'] = 1;
where MULTIMEDIA is redefined in TCA getting Flexform etc.
I also planned to give possibility to use it for YouTube by simply 
adding keys, all embeded with SWFobject and using YouTube-API.

Prerequisite is the patch with filereference i work on too, as i want a 
solution to have it switchable file/file_reference in TCEforms.

vg Steffen

Steffen Kamper schrieb:
> 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