Plone4Artists Video 1.1 (Apr 14, 2008)

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.

For additional information about this project, please visit the project page .

Available downloads

Core product

For all platforms (2.0 MB)

Bundle for Plone 2.5

For all platforms (2.2 MB)

Bundle for Plone 3.0

For all platforms (2.0 MB)

Release Notes

A Word of Thanks

This Valentine's Day release of Plone4ArtistsVideo 1.1 is dedicated to the many generous contributors who pledged financial contributions to make this release possible. Thank you all for your support!

Also, thanks to Jonathan Lewis for putting together another fabulous screencast which demonstrates the many features of Plone4ArtistsVideo. Watch the screencast to experience a nice intro the the product.

Last but not least, thanks to the tireless efforts of these amazing developers Rocky Burt, Alec Mitchell, Ross Patterson and Tim Terlegard for making this product what it is.

--Nate Aune

About Plone4ArtistsVideo

Plone4ArtistsVideo is an add-on product for Plone which lets you add videos to your Plone site. It supports the uploading of video files or embedding of videos that are already hosted on popular video sharing sites such as Youtube and Google Video.

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

Change log

Features