Plone4Artists video abstraction library
Project description
p4a.video
Overview
The p4a.video package provides a framework for handling video content on the Zope 2 and Zope 3 platforms. It was inspired by the Plone ATVideo product and even borrows some UI.
Project Description
p4a.video allows you to:
convert a file object to a video
extract the video metadata
render an appropriate view (depending on the file format)
Installation
p4a.video depends on the following packages:
p4a.subtyper
p4a.common
p4a.z2utils
p4a.fileimage
hachoir_core
hachoir_metadata
hachoir_parser
If you use buildout, you can have it manage these dependencies by:
adding these lines to your buildout.cfg file
[buildout]
...
eggs =
...
p4a.video
[instance]
...
zcml =
...
p4a.video
re-run your buildout
Install the add-ons from the Add-on Products page in the Plone Control Panel
Features
Video Files
Support for:
Quicktime (MOV, MP4)
Windows Media (WMV, AVI, WMA, ASF)
RealMedia (RAM)
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 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
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
Requires:
lovely.tag
p4a.plonetagging
Users can rate videos (1 to 5 stars)
Plone keeps track of user ratings vs. editor ratings
Users can tag videos
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
Changes
1.4 (2012-11-28)
Don’t pin exact versions of hachoir [aclark]
Made VideoPageView inherit also from BrowserView so that it can be customized ttw with portal_view_customizations [ichimdav]
Fix IE conflict with kukit [afd]
Included the zcml from p4a.subtyper. [davidblewett]
Included the zcml from p4a.fileimage, so it is not necessary to include manually when adding p4a.video to a buildout. [davidblewett]
Minimum Plone version supported is now 3.2, removed all backwards-compatibility support for Plone 2.5. [davidblewett]
Updated events to import from zope.lifecycleevent, instead of zope.app.event. [davidblewett]
Changed annotation support to use zope.annotation instead of zope.app.annotation. [davidblewett]
1.3 (2010-07-28)
Updated flowplayer to version 3. This allows it to work on IE again. Thanks to cdw9 for the help with the template. [claytron]
1.2 (2010-06-18)
Added CSS and JS files to their respective registries. Removed them from video.pt. [davidblewett]
Updated README to include dependency information in the Install section. [davidblewett]
Updated README with information from the plone4artistsvideo product page. Changed setuptools’ long description to use the contents of README.txt. [davidblewett]
Updated old reference to p4acal. [davidblewett]
Forgot to commit more translations. Sorry [tzicatl]
Added more translation strings. Added Spanish translation strings [tzicatl]
Remove some unused imports [rosspatterson]
Pyflakes fix [rosspatterson]
add the it translation [stemrc]
pinned Hachoir versions to 1.2 since the latest 1.2.1 only works with Python 2.5 [nate]
1.1.1 (2008-10-10)
Features
Support for iPod video - video/x-m4v. TODO: tests. (Nate Aune)
Brazilian Portuguese translation. (ericoandrei)
Preliminary fixed rate Real media support. TODO: tests. (danielblackburn)
Bug Fixes
Fix rich text widget handling. TODO: tests. (Nate Aune)
Depend on hachoir. (Nate Aune)
fixed issue where url assignment, was not updated properly with rest of the method. TODO: tests. (danielblackburn)
1.1 (2008-04-09)
Bug Fixes
Fixed ContentLicensing optional’ness to fix issue #40 (Ross Patterson and Rocky Burt)
Fixed handling of unicode AT titles for issues #41 and #47 (Ross Patterson and Rocky Burt)
Updated vPIP (Nate Aune)
Updated flowplayer (Ross Patterson and Rocky Burt)
Portal status message handling was made to work better to fix issue #38 (Ross Patterson)
Hooked up video/mpeg mime type and player link to fix issue #28 (Ross Patterson)
1.1b1 (2008-02-13)
Features
Added Plone 3 compatibility (Rocky Burt) r1794
Added rich text description field (Rocky Burt) r1829
Now uses p4a.subtyper to expose video subtype action (Rocky Burt) r1787
Bug Fixes
Support additional mime type synonyms - video/x-msvideo and video/x-flash-video (Ross Patterson) r1881
Support reasonable default dimensions for the players (Ross Patterson) r1920
Miscellaneous
Now uses standard plone/cmf comments instead of easycommenting (Rocky Burt)
1.0 (2007-11-28)
Features
Default video container view has been updated (Rocky Burt)
Added description field to IVideo and subsequent views (Rocky Burt)
1.0beta1 (2007-07-31)
Various bug fixes and general improvments.
1.0alpha1 (2007-04-29)
First release.
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