Plumi » Plumi http://blog.plumi.org Create your own video-sharing site using the Plumi free software video platform Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:32:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Getting started on the plone video sprint http://blog.plumi.org/2009/10/31/getting-started-on-the-plone-video-sprint/ http://blog.plumi.org/2009/10/31/getting-started-on-the-plone-video-sprint/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:04:41 +0000 barry http://blog.plumi.org/?p=173 We’re in room 100b, come on down! If you’re remote sprinting, go to irc.freenode.net and join #plonevideosprint.

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Here are some of the conclusions, please speak up if we’ve got anything wrong or if we’ve missed any key details.

As mentioned previously there are three strands

  1. a new plone video suite based (mostly) on already existing tools
  2. the future of plone/video – aimed to toward plone 4/5 and looking particularly at Tiles
  3. essential improvements to already existing products such as Plumi and p4a

We’ve updated the feature set based on those discussions and dived into ‘must have’, ’should have’ and ‘nice to have’. (If you’re not already on the coactivate page, please join here.)

We want to granularise the tasks as much as possible to – any help people can offer there would be great.

We’re also looking to have leads on the various sections who can help break goals down into tasks and get tickets on the coactive tracker ticked off. We currently have 17 people signed up here and a few remote sprinters. We’re expecting 20-25 sprinters on board, possibly more. (Please spread the word and get people on board!)

At the moment Nate has volunteered to bottom line the video suite, and also the p4a enhancements and release.

We also discussed the idea of some of this possibly going into the core of Plone.

Vik is bottom-lining transcoding but is also keen to get more help on the coordination there. And will bottom line Plumi enhancements toward the 3.0 release.

We need a lead on the future of plone video; Limi has offered to help out in framing the needs at the start but will be attending multiple sprints. If you have any ideas or suggestions for a lead, please let us now.

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#plonevideosprint
irc.freenode.net

If you’re interested in attending the sprint, there’s some info here and you can also follow what we’re up to on twitter: @plumisprint

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Podcasting has worked in Miro and other clients for a while, but iTunes has slightly different requirements. In short, the change to Plumi affects the RSS2 template.

The standard plone implementation is that the URL http://foo.com/bar/video.mp4 will show the object view of the video, while http://foo.com/bar/video.mp4/download will let you download the source file.

iTunes doesn’t like the /download on the end and doesn’t honour the MIME type – i _needs_ .mp4 or .mov on the end of the URI. Plumi already made the URI http://foo.com/bar/video.mp4 into the source download link. This change merely changes the RSS2 template to point to the .mp4 extension.

This change allows iTunes to pull in videos from the site. However, iTunes is limited in what formats it can play, so at this stage this only works for .mp4 and .mov files on OS X and other formats on Windows. iTunes has an in-program transcoding option, but be aware that it’s not particularly stable and has been known to crash iTunes (at least in the EngageMedia offices!).

The next stage is to implement server-side transcoding to mp4, which we’re looking at shortly.

As with all RSS feeds on the site, you can subscribe to a site-wide feed (such as this) or an individual user’s feed (like this).

Upgrading

Plumi site admins can update their plumi instance to plumi-0.2.x if they are using that branch, or can apply the diff as per this.

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