Plumi

Plumi 4.3-final is now available. A summary of changes can be found below.

• online subtitling support using Universal Subtitles
• html5 support using webm and mp4 (high res and standard transcodes available) makes page loads massively faster – no more flowplayer.
• all transcoded versions are available for easy download
• better and more reliable support for 16:9 video
• sort and find videos by language
• play count on videos is now counted when the video is played embedded on another site
• updated to Plone 4.1
• replace collective.piwik.flowplayer with collective.piwik.mediaelement
• Video transcoding progress indicator for site admins

For a full list of changes please see the changelog.

You can download the package from http://plone.org/products/plumi/releases/4.3-Final or via http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plumi.app/4.3

The changes can be seen in action at http://engagemedia.org and http://demo.plumi.org

Thanks to Unweb.me, Rok Garbas and Anna Helme for getting us across the line and producing the best Plumi release to date.

Unweb have tagged a 4.3b2 version of plumi.app. It’s available here:
https://github.com/plumi/plumi.app/zipball/4.3b2

The beta includes updating to Plone 4.1.2, support for 16:9 video transcoding, webm transcoding, replacement of Flowplayer with mediaelement.js HTML5 player, video language added to metadata and support for the Universal Subtitles platform.

Also updated is the INSTALL.txt with the new installation how-to.

Please install, test and get in contact with us via the email list if you find any bugs.

Here are the changelogs for plumi.app and plumi.content:

• added mkv and wmv files to cache exceptions [clopy]
• moved repo to github [garbas]
• added support for 16:9 transcoding, updated ffmpeg version [clopy]
• removing propertiestool.xml – functionality was moved to other packages [garbas]
• publish link should be part of desgin (moving to plumi.skin) [garbas]
• removed boilerplate code [garbas]
• added iw.debug into devel.cfg [garbas]
• update to Plone 4.1.2 [garbas, dimo]
• add publish and notifyMemberAreaCreated via portal_skins (from plumi.skin) [garbas]
• added webm transcoding support [clopy, cpsaltis, dimo]
• updated transcode script to catch odd resolutions [clopy]
• update thumbnail generation script for 16:9 [clopy]
• replace collective.flowplayer with collective.mediaelementjs [clopy, dimo]
• replace collective.piwik.flowplayer with collective.piwik.mediaelement [dimo]
• add plone.app.theming support & update lxml [dimo]
• pump up versions of external tools [cpsaltis]
• add vocabulary and index for video languages [clopy]
• update installation method and docs [dimo]

The Plumi code repository has a new home on GitHub, having moved recently from the Plone Collective.

https://github.com/plumi

We are currently working towards a Plumi 4.3 beta release, including support for Universal Subtitles, 16:9 video and an HTML5 video player (with auto fallback to Flash video support for older browsers).

You can check out the development tracker here.

Includes Zope_Hotfix_20110622 that patches a serious security vulnerability
http://plone.org/products/plumi/releases/4.2.2

A 4 page article about Plumi has been published on the greek Linux Inside magazine of June.

The article “Make a video portal with Plumi” covers the installation of Plumi and contains an overview of what you can do with Plumi, plus lots of tricks.

Linux Inside is a greek magazine about linux and open source, featuring high quality original articles in the greek language .

Refresh your greek and read the article here!

EngageMedia and Unweb are pleased to announce the 4.2.1-Final release of the Plumi video sharing platform. Plumi 4.2.1 focuses on stability, speed and installation enhancements along with a number of bug fixes. It is the first stable release since Plumi 4.1 and includes the Plone security patches issued in early June 2011.

Improvements in this release include

• Author page now only pulls in news/events created by that author;
• Minor layout clean up to the author page;
• Indonesian translation enhancements – option to choose low/high resolution version of the embedded player;
• Add timeout to scheduler queue to avoid possible transcoder freeze;
• Backward compatibility with pre iframe embed code to ensure old embeds can be played;
• Thumbnail is taken at 8 seconds rather than at 4 seconds to reduce number of instances of black frames;
• Page size optimizations – double loading of flash player removed and lower resolution thumbnail is displayed;
• Simplify installation procedure by automatically creating a Plone site and installing plumi.app;
• Update tests use plone.app.testing;
• Fix doctests;
• Update to Plone 4.0.7 that includes the latest security fixes.

The release can be found at http://plone.org/products/plumi

SVN at https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/plumi.app/tags/4.2.1/

A demo can be seen at http://demo.plumi.org and http://engagemedia.org

Full changelogs at

• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plumi.app
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plumi.content
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plumi.skin