# BuddyPress Media 2.1 released with Add-on Support

*Published:* 2012-09-26
*Author:* Rahul Bansal

> Photo/Video Upload tested on mobile devices specially iPhone/iPad with iOS6. FFMPEG-addon automatically convert common audio/videos formats to mp4/mp3

We are happy to announce release of BuddyPress Media 2.1. This is a major release which adds new features:

- Support for add-on creation. You can extend BuddyPress media plugin to use any media platform/
- BuddyPress-Media FFMPEG add-on. A premium add-on to add automatic audio/video conversion support for many popular file formats.

We also released media-node, a FFMPEG-wrapper in node.js in open-source. In case you don’t like our FFMPEG add-on or think its not worth your money, you can use use media-node & buddypress-media platform to create your own plugins!

## How it all works together!

Below is image representing how everything is working together.

[![buddypress-media-ffmpeg-addon-e1348645972559](https://rtcamp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/09/buddypress-media-ffmpeg-addon-e1348645972559.png?resize=618%2C304&quality=100&strip=all "buddypress-media-ffmpeg-addon")](https://rtmedia.io/rtmedia-premium/)

In next week, we will be releasing a Kaltura module, so users who wish to use a Kaltura server, instead of Media-node can benefit.

## iPhone/iPad/Mobile Uploads

We have tested BuddyPress 2.1 on iPhone/iPad devices running iOS6. Image & Video uploads works nicely.

Actually, BuddyPress media has always been standard friendly. It’s just iOS5 and older do not support HTML File Upload field in browser.

If you have any questions, feel free to [contact us.](https://rtmedia.io/support/)

**Link:** [BuddyPress Media 2.1](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-media/ "BuddyPress Media Plugin") | [BPM-FFMPEG Addon](https://rtmedia.io/transcoder/)

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