What to look for in a Video CMS

I get asked allot about a certain PHP script that seem to be making its way around the net. About 5 companies claim ownership. Its what you call a generic script but unlike generic drugs it probably won’t cure what ails you. Anyway I’m developing a generic answer to the generic question about the generic script.

Generic draft.

Yes there is a difference.

That script that’s been floating around for about a year. Various people have claimed ownership of the thing and these guys might actually own it. However I doubt they developed it. Its very basic but does a fine job of trans-coding video from the various formats to Flash. Past that point however its really not much to rave about but of course I’m biased. It is less expensive for sure so if you don’t need much more than trans-coding to Flash it might be your best option.

The difference between ours and theirs is that ours is based on Drupal and does not interfere with Drupal core. We were offered that script you mention by the way. It would have been a quick fix but would have meant taking a less extensible and robust path to get what we needed.

What does this mean to you? Go to this link and scroll down the page. Do you see anything interesting? If so you need to find out if the script you reference has something similar. It probably doesn’t. If you happen to want something that you can’t find in the contributed modules you should check the CVS. If you can’t find it there then you will be able to draw from one of the largest developer communities surrounding any open source project. Period and end of the story.

But be sure to note I’m not trashing that product. Far from it. The core functions are elegant and clean. It uses Ffmpeg and Flvtool as do we.
http://drupal.org/project/Modules/name

I guess this means we need to come up with a name. Someone suggested ‘DruTube’. I like it.