embedded media field

FYI, I'm planning to do a Dojo session (using DimDim) sometime hopefully early this week around Embedded Media Field, with the following goals:

Currently, Embedded Media Field has Embedded Thumbnail, which allows editors to override the thumbnails provided by third party providers. I originally just copied some code from Image Field to handle it, after toying with (and rejecting) the idea of creating some sort of generic image handling api to help modules needing the functionality.

Alex UA and I have set the date for an official release for Embedded Media Field, for next Friday, February 15. We're going to quash as many of the outstanding bugs as possible before then, and could really use some help from interested people, as far as testing and patching things up.

Once the official version is released for d5, we'll also begin development for the d6 release.

See http://drupal.org/node/213456 for release status.

Embedded Media Field now ships with Embedded Media Import, for importing photosets, playlists, and the like. If you install that module, admins will have the ability to import photosets from Flickr as individual nodes. Just make sure the 'Allow import' checkbox on the content type (which must have a field defined with Embedded Media Field) is checked, proper permissions are given to editors, and look at the settings on the new tab at /admin/content/emfield/import.

I just announced that the Embedded Media Field now supports custom media url's, but I forgot to mention that the idea for that support came from the meet-up last week, specifically in a conversation with jkopel & Jen Simmons. At least one other (whose username I can't find here), and probably others; sorry if I forgot to mention you. I met a lot of cool new people here.

EDIT: Don't use Video CCK, as it's been deprecated. Use Embedded Media Field instead. And for local videos, I suggest the File Field and jQuery Media combo, though there are other solutions as well.