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

There are two Drupal modules that comprise the core of my video solution: Blue Droplet Video and Storage API. In conjunction with Drupal core, its 5000+ modules and vibrant community, you are standing on the shoulders of giants. This is the premier system for publishing video on the web.

Check out a site we 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 for viewing in-browser. This can either occur using my paid transcoding service, or you can install FFmpeg on your server and use that. Alternatively, editors can upload video which is already in a suitable format and doesn't need transcoding.
  • It uses the high quality H.264 video codec: example.
  • Preview images are grabbed from video automatically.
  • It's integrated with various other Drupal modules, including the incredibly powerful Views module.

Storage API

This module is the storage and serving / streaming backend - it lets the Cloud scale your website with ease.

  • Pluggable architecture - it is very easy to write storage services. Currently, local storage, FTP, Amazon S3 / CloudFront and Rackspace Cloud Files are implemented.
  • 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.
  • With Drupal 7, it will be able to take over the storage and serving of any files that core manages.

Who is Blue Droplet Media?

Blue Droplet Media is one person: Jonathan Brown - based in Edinburgh, Scotland. With three years experience of Drupal development, 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

These are the services I provide:

  • Website creation - I can build video websites, large or small.
  • 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 and increase functionality.
  • 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