Preface

Drupal Multimedia takes an in-depth look at one of the most common questions posed by new (and old) Drupal developers: How can I place images/video/audio into my site?

Drupal is an open-source Content Management System (CMS), used on thousands of sites from personal blogs to e-commerce sites to media powerhouses. Although Drupal can be easily installed and configured to quickly get a site up with all the best features one might expect, its modular building blocks can be used to customize that site to fit the required solution.

For anything beyond a simple listing of files uploaded with content, multimedia handling requires modules and techniques beyond what's supplied with the core of Drupal. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your perspective), there are hundreds of modules that have been contributed by and for the community, which can handle nearly any current need. Drupal Multimedia will help you make sense of it all.