About Media Handler

Media resolving, processing and markup generation.

The Media Handler provides:

Build URLs for media assets like images and downloads (based on URL Handler)
Pluggable media sources (with default implementations for DAM and binaries stored inside a content page)
Pluggable markup builders for different media types (e.g. images, DAM video)
Media format concept that allows to define expected output formats (with constraints for dimension, ratio, file type and others)
Rendering virtual renditions to match the expected output format
Supports manual and automatic cropping and rotation of images and image maps
Support for responsive images by rendering multiple renditions at once for each breakpoint
Define media handling via Java API, content policies or component properties
Pluggable media pre- and postprocessing to further tailoring the media handling process
Generic Sling Models for usage in views: Sling Models
Generic HTL Placeholder template
Generic Granite UI components that can be used in media/image component dialogs
Support for Dynamic Media
Support for Next Generation Dynamic Media on AEMaaCS
Support for Web-Optimized Image Delivery: On AEMaaCS instances renditions are transparently rendered on the edge

Read the general concepts to get an overview of the functionality.

To use this module you have to deploy also:

wcm.io Sling Commons
wcm.io AEM Sling Models Extensions
wcm.io WCM Commons
wcm.io WCM Granite UI Extensions
wcm.io Handler Commons
wcm.io URL Handler