EngageMedia and Unweb have released Plumi 3.1.1, the latest version of the video sharing platform that is built on the Plone open source content management system. In this bug fix & stability release, the changes focus on enhancing the transcoding framework, improving the commenting system and correcting issues with video embedding: Transcoded video files are [...]
EngageMedia and Unweb have released Plumi 3.1.1 into beta testing. You can download the release in a tar file from the Plumi 3.1.1 Beta entry on plone.org. The changes introduced in this version include: Deleting a video in Plumi will also delete any transcoded copies No longer asks the user to select a language when [...]
EngageMedia and Unweb have been keeping busy this week testing and tweaking the Burnstation prototype system. As a proof of concept it’s being kept quite basic, especially its user interface and error trapping. The tweaking has involved making it a little clearer to operate and correcting a couple of issues that would prevent it from [...]
The user interface provided with the Burnstation prototype presents minimal information to the user. There are no icons or layout considerations in the portlet & the Add to Burn Queue link that the prototype provides. When a video is added to the queue, the user is returned to the home page and must remember to [...]
EngageMedia and Unweb have made a preliminary copy of the Burnstation prototype available for you to experiment with on the Plumi test site. As you might expect from a prototype, it has a very basic front end but the concept is there. You can select a number of videos from the site then create a [...]
As part of the Burnstation prototype’s package we’ll be including a README.TXT that provides: Instructions for installing the Burnstation prototype’s components on a Plumi system How to use the Burnstation prototype Instructions for installing the Burnstation prototype’s components on a Plone system (without Plumi installed) A preliminary copy of the README.TXT file is available for [...]
When first envisaged for Plumi, the Burnstation module was to produce either VCD or DVD format discs for distribution. During the design of the prototype, it was decided to focus solely on DVD format discs for the following reasons: DVD is more popular than VCD and more people are likely to have DVD players than [...]
