An Open Source “YouTube”

Silvia PfeifferVquence

OSDC, 4th Dec 2008

Overview

• Software to publish video• Introducing: Fez/Fedora• Features• Demo• When to choose what

Software to publish video

1. Foreign Hosting

Webpage

<embed>

2. Self-hosting inside CMS

wordTube plugin

3. Self-hosting off-site

“MyTUBE”

Build your own “YouTube”

Fez / FedoraCommons

Digital CollectionRepository

Web Interface forarchiving and publishing

FedoraCommons

• http://www.fedora.info/• Java, tomcat• Postgres or MySQL• Apache• Old Debian package only

Fez• http://sourceforge.net/projects/fez• http://dev-repo.library.uq.edu.au/wiki/• University of Queensland• PHP• MySQL or Postgres• Apache• No Debian packages

Fez example installation

Fez Features

• Document Archive• Access Control Roles: Lister, Viewer,

Creator, Editor, Approver• Default Aggregation APIs• Workflows: flow of user GUI forms• Full-text Search Index using Solr• Controlled Vocabularies

Fez Video Features

• Video Upload with Metadata• Automated Video Transcoding using

FFMpeg• Automated Thumbnailing using FFMpeg• Embeddable JW Video Player• Playlists

Demo

When to choose what videopublishing solution

Thank you

Questions?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fez/