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1. 

   garybruckheimer
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago

   Hi,

   nothing is for free, and if we and to put the openSource Version of MediaCore into the next level, we need very good python developers and we need money.

   Someone must do the first step, and we will create next week the first pool for features and bugfixes and we put $2.000 dollars in that pool. With this money we will pay python experts for creating new exciting media core features. I will send you the site as soon as our web designer has finished it. So if you know some great python developers let me know. We have to release all stuff under GPL v3. That is the only chance to make the MC bigger and more popular.

   I want to start with some ideas what we think that it makes sense to implement in media core. Maybe we can look at other major DAM Systems like http://www.kitd.com/ for inspiration.

   1) Publish End-Date for Media
   - Here you can set start and endTime for Videos. Right now only start works.
   Coast?

   2) Live Streaming Events
   - Here you can set a player into live streaming mode without having the controls. For this we need Point 1, or?
   Coast?

   3) DRM? Digital Rights Management for Flash and Silverlight
   Coast?

   4) Upload Plattform for automatic uploading an incoming file to youTube, Vimeo and XXX Plattforms
   Coast?

   5) Alternate Encode for Panda? Maybe an FFMPEG Binary, but..i don't like it when an CPU intensive process runs on the same machine as mediaCore. Maybe we create here en EC2 Image
   Coast?

   6) Thumbnail Creation Module with Timeline
   Coast?

   7) TV-Planner with ADS Support for Pre and PostRoll with VideoTimeLine. Maybe we can implement an HTML5 Video Editor from Mozilla.
   Coast?

   8) Category View in Media Section. Right now you only get the name of the video. A section by category is not possible
   Coast?

   10) Bug - Fixing?
   Coast?

   11) Payment and Billing Services?
   Coast?

   12) Multiple User management with more then one Mediapool.
   Coast?

   13) FTP Folder Scanner for Import, S3 Media File Scanner for Import
   Coast?

   14) SmartPhone Mobile Publisher. Here we have good news that we have test a H.264 Publisher for iOS which is able to publish to the MediaCore System via FTP Upload.
   So you can publish files directly in H.264 and AAC to the mediaCore system.
   Status: Beta...ready in Q1 2012.

   Any other ideas?

   We also need designer for module skinning and Board-Members for managing the pool.

   Gary
   http://onlinelib.de
2. 

   Ruben
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago

   Hi, good idea, but you have contact with developer team of mediacore??

   I think that the open source version is dead because I don´t see any update in the last 6 month and all new features go to cloud version...

   But about the list of features, my customers always said that they want:

   7) TV-Planner with ADS Support for Pre and PostRoll ...
   1) Publish End-Date for Media
   13) FTP Folder Scanner for Import,
   6) Thumbnail Creation Module...

   The point 7 and 1 I think that are important features.

   Regards.
   Rubén.
3. 

   Felix Schwarz
   Contributor
   Posted 5 months ago

   Hi Rubén,

   for the ads support do you have any strongly preferred network? I implemented pre-/postroll for OpenX (with FlowPlayer) so I might be able to help out.

   There'll be some changes to the MediaCore Open Source Project 'soon' (very likely still this year) but let's what for SimpleStation's announcement. From my point of view it's not dead.
   fs
4. 

   garybruckheimer
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago

   Hi Ruben, Hi Felix,

   @Ruben: I have contacted the mediaCore Devs before some weeks ago and i got very fast positive feedback. Iam sure that they will follow the discussions in their own forum :) We have to work together cause it makes no sense to implement something outside a closed version of mediaCore or to implement things double. When the original source-tree of the openSource will change, then we go into a PatchTerror World :)

   That is why we have to figure out how we can implement new features without breaking the original version. I hope that we can write plugins for all the stuff we need.

   When it is ok lets collect some infos and start discussion and then i will setup and project-planner for the things toDo.

   Ads implementation is important, one thing is to play them out, another most important thing for customers is to "count" them thru an third-party service like doubleClick and eye wonder.

   JWPlayer and also OSMF has VAST and i think we can use their plugins for collecting. I don't know if JWPlayer HTML5 version has also VAST.

   I implement a lot of doubleClick for german news sites like ntv.de.

   About TV Planner, i have written for some broadcaster an TV Planner app. Its written in C++ and running under linux. I don't see a big problem why we can't implement this in some into mediaCore GPLv3. As far as i read it is possible to make a communication bridge between python and c++. I have toDo more testing.

   Thumbnail generation is not hard toDo. An image grabber from h.264 in mp4 or mov fileContainer is written in 2 days, but here again i don't know what is the best way to implement it into MediaCore.

   I attached a screenshot from our tv-planner here you can see the version from last year:
   http://onlinelib.de/mcdev.html (<-scroll down to TV App Beta)

   The missing thing in the past of years was to include an digital asset management, and now it seems to be possible in MC. Maybe we will cut this thing a littleBit smaller, i don't think that we need color correction in a webInterface :)

   The Python is my biggest problem right now, i really miss my brackets like "[" and "{" and where is the ";" going ? :)

   How about security?

   As far i have seen it is not possible to hide the Admin Section, i tried with an simple .htaccess but the fcgi goes over this. I take a look into the source and there are several places in the code that must be change to hide the ...webserver/Admin alias of media core.

   Every media core installation that i found had access to the mediaCore Admin Section and it seems that a brute force is possible cause unlimited tries of logins.

   Correct me when iam false.

   Maybe we can hide the admin with an simple referee check on a hidden subdomain.

   My customer in the US wants the iPhone Video Publisher for MediaCore. As far as i can see it is only possible to read from the API, not to write. I have written a little hack where i can implement the video directly into the SQL, but i don't like this way.

   I will come back when i have collect everything in a small project site.

   Have a nice week..

   By the way: anyone knows how to add a photo into the mediaCore User Profile forum?

   Gary
5. 

   Ruben
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago

   Hi Felix, I am happy to see that Open Source version is not dead.

   About ads support, yes OpenX is a powerfull option but it isn´t free, maybe OpenX Source will be a interesting but I don´t know if is a good option or not is 100% stable.
   When I speak with clients the most of them want any easy, maybe a folder where the upload 3 o 4 videos and a preroll with it, and of course manage it embedded in the administrative panel of mediacore.

   I work in Spain and my clients haven´t money, they couldn´t pay a month tax to OpenX for a ad support.

   I don´t know how work a plugin of mediacore, for example when I will update mediacore open source to 1.0 version in a near future the plugin stop of working or not??
   Because if the little company where I work buy your plugin and it don´t work the next years will be a
   crappy solution.

   Sorry for my english.

   Rubén.
6. 

   Felix Schwarz
   Contributor
   Posted 5 months ago

   There is an open source version of OpenX which can be installed locally (though it's not well maintained currently) as well as a free hosted version (for smaller sites).

   Generally with ads there is the problem that you have to buy a commercial flash plugin (200 €/year/site) if you want 'real' ads (user can't skip the ad by seeking, user can click the ad and is taken to the advertiser's page, ...).

   The idea of plugins is that they'll continue working even with newer versions of MediaCore. Of course there might be some incompatible changes but generally plugins should be quite stable as long as they only use 'official' API.

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