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   chopnfat
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago

   Hi guys,

   We are video content producers in South Africa, syndicating our content online.
   Although we currently use Youtube, we would like to move to serving our own videos, as well as adverts from sponsors.
   Our website is built on Wordpress and we run a dedicated Microsoft server with Wowza installed on it. We also have a license for JW player.

   The main benefit we see in Mediacore is the ease of interface to upload videos to the server, as well as archiving capabilities. Ideally, we wouldn't want website visitors to upload their own video or for Mediacore to display any front-end elements that visitors would have access to.

   The "best-case" worflow scenario I have in my head is the following
   - Admin encodes videos in M4V for HTML5 and FLV for flash player locally
   - Admin uploads videos to our dedicated server via Mediacore (http://domain/mediacore?)
   - Video is automatically placed in Wowza folder on dedicated server
   - Admin enters Wordpress, creates a new post and selects video (via plug-in?)
   - Ads are added via a specific JW player plugin (ideally also previously uploaded to our server via Mediacore)
   - Video is displayed on our site using JW Player

   1) Is this feasible using Mediacore?
   2) Would I be complicating the worklow and not understanding some of the key benefits of Mediacore?
   3) Finally, is Mediacore a streaming platform similar to Wowza or FMS and makes them redundant? (my understanding is that it isn't.

   Apologies for all these noob-ish questions from a content producer with an analog brain :)
2. 

   Nathan Wright
   Maintainer
   Posted 1 year ago

   MediaCore is capable of much of what you describe here, but there are some things, such as advertising, that we aren't built-in yet.

   You can certainly use MediaCore as your repository of videos and then use the standard embeddable player HTML snippet to include JWPlayer in a Wordpress blog post (or anywhere else, for that matter). See the "Embed" button in the bar below the player here.

   We don't currently have specific integration for Wowza, however, we do support FTP storage of media files, as well as playback with the RTMP streaming protocol. You'd want to add an FTP Storage Engine through the Admin UI and fill in your Wowza details there. Alternately, if you want to upload directly to Wowza, you can add the URLs to MediaCore, and it can still take care of the JWPlayer + RTMP streaming logic for you. Also, you're right, MediaCore does not make Wowza redundant; we act as a bridge between Wowza and JWPlayer (or potentially any other media server/player combination).

   We haven't integrated pre-roll advertising into MediaCore yet. For now, without modifying the source code, you can only implement and sidebar and banner advertising of your choice. We're going to be getting a pre-roll, mid-roll, and post-roll advertising solution integrated into MediaCore in the future, we're just not there yet.

   Until MediaCore 1.0 we won't have any built-in way to restrict access to the frontend UI to just admins. However, that can be done by adding a couple lines to a few files, which I can help with, if you're interested.

   All the things you describe are on our development roadmap, so if you can wait, we'll be adding all these features in the coming months. For now you could launch without pre-roll advertising and with a frontend which can be accessed if someone knows the right URL, and when we release those features, you'll be able to do a seamless upgrade to get them.

   Hope that helps! I'd be happy to elaborate on anything if you have more questions.
3. 

   derkw
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago

   What is not clear for me from answer above, Will Mediacore work with Wowza?

   We are running Mediacore now, but it seems most users use the streaming video to decide it they want to download something, or to check out the highlights of a video. So that would require Wowza or something similar. Any suggestions?
4. 

   Anthony Theocharis
   Key Master
   Posted 1 year ago

   MediaCore has no special integration with Wowza, but if what you're asking is can MediaCore make use of Wowza's RTMP streaming, then the answer is yes.

   MediaCore supports the use of videos on remote servers by allowing admins to add a remote URL to any HTTP or RTMP resource.

   If you know the HTTP or RTMP URLs for the files that are on your Wowza server, you can add those to any MediaCore Media item using MediaCore's standard support for RTMP and HTTP URLs.
5. 

   derkw
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago

   Thanks Anthony, that's what I wanted to know.

   So I can get a Wowza subscription for my server and make it work with Mediacore.

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