Topic - Online Video & open-source
Adobe Gets Serious with Open Source – Opens up that MF
Throw on your disco clothes and get down with Strobe, Adobe’s Open Source Media Framework Initiative (OSMF) which they recently released. What’s it all mean for you? Well, that’s what ReelSEO is here to tell you.
Kaltura Launches Free Open Source Online Video Platform
Kaltura has been rambling around the net for some time now but just only recently announced the launch of their full Community Edition which is a free, open source and self-hosted online video platform. This is a big day for all of those that want a do-it-yourself solution for video hosting.
Miro – Open Source Video Projects – Participatory Culture Foundation
The Participatory Culture Foundation has been hard at work building up several services that make great use of online video. As such we at ReelSEO thought it was time that we took a look at them to see how they’re doing. The PCF is a non-profit organization that wants to build a new open mass medium platform that’s simple and easy to use.
Two projects – Miro and Make Internet TV are already up and running so I’ve decided to take a look into each and let you know what they’re all about and how they’re going along.
Open Video – What is Open Source Video all about?
As 2009 unfolds, three things about online video become clear:
1.) With over 17 Billion monthly videos watched in the US alone (according to comScore) and steady month-over-month growth, video is here to stay.
2.) Video exhibits classic long-tail distribution — while YouTube remains the dominant player, video is rapidly moving from destination-sites to the rest of the web, and from Media and Entertainment into the enterprise, with millions of sites streaming video as the new mode of communication.
3.) The conversation is shifting from the technological aspects to the value aspects: not how to build a player or convert between formats but, rather, how to foster audience engagement, drive business values, increase collaboration, and monetize these billions of streams.
Open Video Conference – Watch the Live Coverage
Tune in, for live coverage of the Open Video Conference happening June 19-20.
Flash Video Obsolete with HTML 5? Open Video Standards
HTML 5 <video> tag – It’s the end of the world as we know it and Flash feels fine? No, probably not. with the prophesied coming of HTML 5 and the video tag, Flash could be on the very short end of a very long stick and the new messiah for online video could take the world by storm. In fact, without some severely significant reasons to continue using it I daresay that it could go the way of the Dodo in regards to online video. I mean seriously. Within a year or so we simply won’t need it (though Microsoft will probably either drag their feet or screw up the IE adoption of HTML 5 so maybe that’s 2-3 years).
Now, let’s not just automatically write off the old bird shall we? I mean it’s got a lot of things going for it, it’s the old flame we want to keep ignited, not just a Flash in the pan. We’ve been through a lot with her and well, some of us love her. Simply put, she’s everywhere. Everyone is using it, almost everyone has the plugin installed, and nearly every internet user has some idea of what it is so even if they don’t have it installed they’re more than happy to install it.
AlwaysOn Selects Open Source Video Platform Solution from Kaltura
AlwaysOn, the participatory media network, has selected Kaltura to power video on their newly designed site. The site will be launching on March 1st – you can take a sneak peek and see the new AO TV powered by Kaltura here:
Mozilla Grants $100K to Develop Open Source Online Video Platform
The Mozilla Foundation is trying to open one of the last proprietary parts of the Web: Video standards. The group behind the Firefox browser announced that it is giving a $100,000 grant, by way of the Wikimedia Foundation , to help develop an open-source standard for Internet video.
JW Player & Long Tail Video Platform Overview – The #1 Open Source Video Player
Longtail Video was co-founded by Jeroen “JW” Wijering and started with his incredibly popular open-source JWplayer embeddable media player that has been downloaded more than 7 million times since 2005. In fact, the JWPlayer was the first player used by online video powerhouse YouTube, purchased from Jeroen for $20 Euros. Over the years the JW player has grown, expanded and increased in versatility and usability. It’s even fully skinnable now so you can make it look exactly how you need it to and has a plug-in and modular architecture.
Kaltura.com the Do-It-Yourself Video Solution?
Some of us are the do-it-yourself types or don’t have a huge budget to implement a solution from some of the major providers of online video delivery systems. Some of us just need to get our hands dirty and some of us are proponents of Open Source and all that it has to offer. In the realm of online video delivery Kaltura looks like the place that these people turn to.
All in One Video Plugin For Wordpress – Upload, Host, Edit, and More
Kaltura has recently released version 2.1 of its Wordpress plugin, the All in one Video Pack. This plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher allows you to do a great deal of things with Wordpress and rich media including the ability to upload or import a video into your post. You can even record it straight from your webcam to the post if you so wish.
Open Source Video Module for Drupal – New from Kaltura
Kaltura, an open-source video publishing platform, just launched an open source video module for Drupal, a leading open source Content Management Platform used by more than a million sites. This new module, dubbed, “Kaltura’s All in One” enables Drupal site-builders to easily add video and rich-media functionality to their Drupal sites.
The module is comes with 10GB of free hosting and streaming that can be later upgraded. It was designed specifically for Drupal and seamlessly integrates with several key Drupal features and modules, including CCK, Views, cron, tags and taxonomy, and user permissions. The module is currently compatible with Drupal 6 (a Drupal 5 compatible version will be available soon).
