Media is a tool for managing Assets for TYPO3 CMS 6.1 and is logically built on the top of FAL. FAL, for those who are unfamiliar, is a the File Abstraction Layer introduced in TYPO3 6.0 which enables it to handle files in centralised way across the CMS. The basic idea of FAL is that every file has an entry in the database to leverage its use as an asset. Basically, Media provides the following set of features:
- Advanced metadata handling of Assets
- API for querying Image, Text, Audio, Video, Application from their repository
- A user friendly BE module
- Mass upload of files and post processing of files
- Multi language handling of metadata
- File permission management
- Automatic Metadata extraction upon upload provided by EXT:metadata
- Integration with the text editor (RTE)
- ...
The home page of the project is at http://forge.typo3.org/projects/extension-media/
Stable version: http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/media
Development version: https://git.typo3.org/TYPO3v4/Extensions/media.git
git clone git://git.typo3.org/TYPO3v4/Extensions/media.git
Live website with pre-configured extension: http://get.typo3.org/bootstrap
Flash news about latest development are also announced on: http://twitter.com/fudriot