Create a questionnaire and gather insights for media management

@tonypaulbarker wanted to share our preference when it comes to media types. While install profiles only come with audio, document, image and video by default, we tend to add pdf, svg and remote video as well. The reason being:

• pdf: we remove that from the document media type because pdfs can be treated with special features like thumbnails, viewer, etc.
• svg: we remove them from the image media type because they don't preview like images and need special formatting in some context
• remote video: this is useful to handle links to YT, Vimeo or others

Maybe that input is helpful for preparing the questionnaire.

Would second the remote video at least. Consider in WordPress editors are used to just pasting a link and it getting auto converted to video. Oembeds via Remote Video seems to be the answer to cover that. I guess a recipe that configures Oembed Providers and Remote Video?

We use the oembed_providers → module for that.

Yeah that's what I meant by 'Oembed Providers': so a potential recipe could have that preconfigured right?

Thanks @jurgenhaas @scott_euser

The media types have different properties as you point out so I am keeping a very open mind about how we classify media and will not only follow the defaults. I would be surprised if we decided not to have some form of remote video.

+1 to remote media along with oembed providers configuration
Additionally I would like to recommend adding media / image cropping tools in this recipe, The module we use are https://www.drupal.org/project/image_widget_crop → along with https://www.drupal.org/project/automated_crop → ,
Also i would recommend to add https://www.drupal.org/project/media_bulk_upload → module to support bulk uploads.

Here are some of the pain points I've encountered with Drupal media:

(1) Image resizing. I don't want editors to have to think about image sizes. But nor do I want to send a 10mb image to a site visitor that they see as a tiny thumbnail. This seems like a basic need for almost every site out there. Configuring this to be automagically taken care of was really hard.

(2) Image cropping. Image widget crop doesn't have a great UX and is fiddly to setup. And the fact that if you reuse an image and change the crop for the new use, you also change the crop on the old use, is a disaster.

(3) I'd like to provide resources for customers at canonical pretty urls like /resources/welcome-video. I'd like to be able to add a new media like a new version of the welcome video, and make that the media shown at that canonical url. Maybe that's not so hard. But where it's gets hairy is with the URLs to the file entities. I can't stop visitors from getting the URL /resources/welcome-video/file.mp4 and sharing it, but when I add my new video it will end up as file-2.mp4. It's messy.

(4) I'd like to be able to update the titles etc of my YouTube media on Drupal and have that push an update to YouTube.

(5) I'm currently doing a lot of work on transcription and speech to text. For example, I'm preparing a transcription module that provides a transcription field to store the transcript of a media. It's a complex problem space that has only opened up recently with better STT systems and there's not a lot of prior art in the Drupal ecosystem. I'm open to contributing to a recipe here.

@jonathanshaw I think that https://www.drupal.org/project/media_alias_display → might help you with 3? If you try this, please let me know how you get on.

Thank you for your thoughts too @guptahemant

The questionnaire is published and currently open for responses at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OkOZDnHT06-s9nkz-nEnz_4hYJtlQRcNuDtGTKK...

@tonypaulbarker thanks for sharing the survey link, i shared more thoughts in there.

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