Blue Droplet Media will help you build your next video website using Drupal

I have written two Drupal modules that comprise the core of my video solution: Blue Droplet Video and Storage API. In conjunction with Drupal core and its other 4000+ modules, you are standing on the shoulders of giants. This is the premier system for publishing video on the web.

Check out a site I created to demo it: Planet Drupal TV. There is also a showcase of sites that use it.

Blue Droplet Video

This module exposes a CCK field type that can be used to create a video content type.

  • Video can be uploaded from the browser, acquired from a web URL, or video already on the server can be used.
  • Video is transcoded to Flash format for viewing in-browser (like YouTube). This can either occur using my paid transcoding service, or you can install FFmpeg on your server and use that.
  • It uses the high quality H.264 video codec: example
  • Preview images are grabbed from video automatically.
  • It's integrated with various Drupal modules, including the incredibly powerful Views module.

Storage API

This module is the storage and serving backend.

  • Pluggable architecture - it is very easy to write storage services. Currently, local storage and Amazon S3 are implemented. Mosso should be next.
  • Enterprise level scalability and redundancy - it can be configured to store your files in multiple containers and instantaneously change which one is serving.
  • Secure serving with Amazon S3 signed URLs.
  • Access control API - can be used for e-commerce.
  • Can serve files directly from source, so you don't have to mirror them yourself.

Who is Blue Droplet Media?

Blue Droplet Media is one person: Jonathan Brown - based in Edinburgh, Scotland. With three years experience building video websites with Drupal, I know my way around. Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/bluedroplet

Free software philosophy

As Drupal and its modules are free software, building a website is considerably more economically efficient than using a proprietary solution. Funding an improvement as free software means the Drupal community will build upon it, allowing you to make your site even better.

How I work

I rarely build entire websites. These are the services I provide:

  • Consultancy - have a specification, but don't know how to build it using Drupal?
  • Deployment - building big sites can be complicated.
  • Module development - I'm especially interested in finding multiple clients who need the same thing. Collaborative funding will reduce your costs.
  • Support - have a problem and need me to delve into your site?

Why not hire the person who created the technology you are building your site upon? Get in touch

Didn't you used to be called OpenPackage Media?

Yes - but it was a terrible name. After brain storming with friends at DrupalCon DC I decided upon the new name. Blue Droplet refers to the Drupal mascot, Druplicon.