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.