Plone4ArtistsVideo

Category: Add-on components — Other products by this author

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Current release: Plone4ArtistsVideo 1.1

Released 2008-04-14 — tested with Plone 3.0, Plone 2.5

This release brings Plone 3 compatibility, support for additional MIME types, support for uStream.tv and FLV URL extraction of videos on Youtube and Blip.tv, default dimensions for videos, a Rich Text description field, improved test coverage and many bug fixes.

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Project Description

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Plone4ArtistsVideo product lets you upload a normal File to your Plone site. The file is auto-detected as a video file, metadata is auto-extracted and an appropriate view is rendered (depending on the file format).

Plone4ArtistsVideo also lets you embed a video that is hosted on a remote video sharing site. Simply choose add new "Link" from the add new item menu, paste in a link to a Youtube, Google Video, Blip.tv or Revver.com video, and the video will be added to your Plone site complete with all the metadata.

Watch the screencast to experience a nice intro the the product. Thanks to Jonathan Lewis for putting this screencast together!

Video files

• upload a normal file and Plone auto-recognizes it as a video file, extracts metadata and chooses an appropriate player
• support for Quicktime (MOV, MP4), Windows Media (WMV, AVI, WMA, ASF), RealMedia (RAM) and Flash (FLV, SWF)
  
• upload a thumbnail image to represent the video. When clicked, the video will start to play
• video edit form exposes metadata: file type, author, height, width, duration
  

Video links

• add a normal link and Plone auto-recognizes it as a video link, and embeds an appropriate video player.
• video player support for Youtube, Yahoo Video, Revver, Vimeo, Vmix, Blip.tv, iFilm, MySpace, MetaCafe, uStream
  
• metadata extraction support for Youtube, Google Video, Blip.tv and Revver.
• extracted metadata includes thumbnail, title, description, tags, author
  
• FLV URL extraction support for Youtube and Blip.tv
  

Video containers

• turn any folder into a video container
• turn any smart folder (collection) into a video container
• provides a video listing view with all videos in the folder including thumbnail, title, description, metadata
  
• video listing also shows tags, ratings and comments about each video

Video feeds

• Publish RSS feed of all the videos in a video container
• Feed entries can contain a link to the video view page, or a link to the actual video file (enclosure)
• Users can subscribe to a vodcast and have the videos downloaded to a desktop video player such as iTunes or Miro for offline viewing
  

Video feedback / commentary

• Users can rate videos (1 to 5 stars) and Plone keeps track of user ratings vs. editor ratings
• Users can tag videos and Plone keeps track of your tags and everyone's tags
• Users can comment on videos. Other users can reply to those comments in a threaded discussion