p4a.video 1.4

Plone4Artists video abstraction library

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.