TYPO3 4.3 Multimedia Cookbook

TYPO3 4.3 Multimedia Cookbook

Overview of this book

TYPO3 is one of the world's leading open source content management systems, written in PHP, which can be used to create and customize your web site. Along with text content, you can display high quality images, audio, and video to your site's visitors by using TYPO3. It is essential to manage various types of multimedia files in content management systems for both editors and the users on the frontend of the site.The book gives you a step-by-step process for organizing an effective multimedia system. It also gives solutions to commonly encountered problems, and offers a variety of tools for dealing with multimedia content. The author's experience in large-scale systems enables him to share his effective solutions to these problems.If you choose to work through all the recipes from the beginning, you will start by setting up a basic web site set up, aimed at future expansion and scalability. Next, you will cover the basics of digital asset management—a major topic important in all enterprises. You can organize user groups because next you will be creating accounts for users and assigning permissions. Then you will jump into metadata—text information describing the multimedia objects—and learn how it can be manipulated in TYPO3. You will embed multimedia on your site when you have read the various methods for embedding mentioned in this book. Before you finish the book you will learn about some advanced topics, such as external API integrations and process automation.

TYPO3 4.3 Multimedia Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started

Introduction

Setting up a web server on Debian

Setting up a multithreaded environment

Setting up a web server on Windows

Creating a scalable architecture

Setting up an NFS share

Setting up TYPO3

Installing needed extensions

Creating a template for a site

Managing Digital Assets

Setting up a file structure

Setting up a filemount

Setting up rights for backend users

Setting up FTP access

Setting up a category tree

Creating a frontend upload form

Debugging code

Operating with Metadata in Media Files

Inserting metadata into images

Extracting metadata from images

Inserting metadata into audio

Extracting metadata from audio

Extracting metadata from PDF

Rendering Images

Rendering images using content elements

Embedding images in RTE

Rendering images using TypoScript

Rendering links to files using <media> tags

Creating a gallery using ce_gallery

Rendering metadata from a DAM object

Rendering Video and Audio

Rendering video using media content object

Rendering audio using media content object

Rendering audio and video using media TypoScript object

Rendering audio and video using content elements and rgmediaimages extension

Extending the media content object for more rendering options

Using custom media player to play video

Connecting to Flash Media Server to play video

Connecting to External APIs

Introduction

Getting files from Amazon S3

Creating Services

Extracting metadata from OpenOffice documents

Processing audio using a service

Converting a video to FLV upon import

Converting audio using services

Building an audioConversion service

Automating Processes

Adding FTP access to the media repository

Indexing downloaded files

Setting up indexing rules

Categorizing files by geolocation

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Using custom media player to play video

Much like we did with audio, we will now create an extension to embed FLV player and render a custom video. You can use the same approach to embed any other custom video player to play your movies.

Note

For more information about FLV player, visit http://flvplayer.com/.

Getting ready

Make sure you have read and understood Extending the media content object for more rendering options recipe covered earlier. This recipe follows the same steps, using slightly different code. You should have created an extension skeleton in Kickstarter.

How to do it...

1. Create ext_localconf.php if it doesn't exist, and add the following content:

<?php
if (!defined ('TYPO3_MODE')) {
die ('Access denied.');
}
// Register Hooks
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SC_OPTIONS']['tslib/hooks/class.tx_cms_
mediaitems.php']['customMediaRenderTypes'][$_EXTKEY] = 'EXT:' .
$_EXTKEY . '/class.tx_webflvplayer.php:tx_webflvplayer';
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SC_OPTIONS']['tslib/hooks/class.tx_cms_
mediaitems.php...

TYPO3 4.3 Multimedia Cookbook

TYPO3 4.3 Multimedia Cookbook

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