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@maurice-wingfield

“BuddyPress Album” aka “BP-Album” and “BuddyPress Media” aka “BP-Media” are built and maintained by the BP-Media Team. Our official homepage is located here:https://code.google.com/p/buddypress-media/ and you’re posting to our support forum.

BP-Album is our interim solution for image hosting on BuddyPress while we finish building BP-Media, quite possibly the most sophisticated media management applications in the history of open source. BP-Media has more source code in it than WordPress and BuddyPress *combined*. We’re about 85% of the way to an alpha version.

“BuddyPress Media Component” is built by (and occasionally maintained by) a small web development firm in India that we are not associated with. The BPMC plugin stopped working around BP version 1.2 and they abandoned it for almost 2 years. Its good to hear they’ve fixed it. Note that BPMC is just a front-end for Kaltura Media Server …you have to sign-up for a hosting account with Kaltura before you can use it, and you have to *pay* to use it if you’re storing more than a trivial amount of media items.

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As the BIG YELLOW WARNING in the BP-Media nightly build states “Nightly builds are unfinished, untested releases automatically created by our Google Code repository. They give the community a live view of our progress, like watching a construction site.”

It’s not finished yet, so don’t expect to be able to use any of its functions.

You correctly determined that the front-end API in BP-Media operates very differently than the front-end template functions in BP-Album. BP-Media’s front-end operates entirely in JavaScript.

There are no template functions. It downloads JS “modules” to the user’s browser then builds all of the HTML on the client-side. This allows over a 90% reduction in bandwidth and 0.2 second page load times. It also allows us to attach to ANY template in ANY theme, even ones not controlled by BuddyPress.

Typical code looks like this:

`

jQuery(document).ready(function(){

// Create a test server instance to work with
bpm.core.server = new bpm.Server();

bpm.core.navigation = new bpm.navigation.items.Owner({
target:’.bpm_nav_entity’
});

// Load our layout engine
bpm.core.engine = new bpm.engine.Tiler({
page:1,
per_page:40,
target:’.bpm_view_entity’,
thumb_template: ’tiler’,
context: ‘owner_edit’
});
bpm.core.engine.load();

bpm.core.navigation.render();
bpm.core.engine.render();

});

`

Of course, while we have this sort of thing working on our dev systems, and it’s in the live code on our SVN server …if you want to play with it you’re on your own. We will not be providing any kind of support for it on the forums until we release the Alpha version of BP-Media in the fall.

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@gagan0123

I just downloaded the new version and reviewed your code. I can confirm the plugin no longer requires Kaltura. The users are going to be happy about that.

Sounds like some good things are happening over there at rtCamp. We’ve initiated contact with you at your posted email address. Email us back …we’ve got some exciting stuff we’d like to talk to you about.

^F^

@foxly , Sorry to the delayed reply, but I got stuck in the project too much. Thanks for reviewing the code. Now it supports uploading of all kinds of media files. Though it will need a good server to for file conversion (http://rtcamp.com/news/buddypress-media-21-released-addons/).
Also we’re going to give the Kaltura support again as an addon, only this time we’ll be using it for conversion only.