Plumi

Plumi software is a video sharing Content Management System based on Plone and produced by the EngageMedia collective.

The latest version of Plumi is packaged with Plone 4.x.You have the option to run a buildout, which includes Plone 4.x, to create a development or production environment using Plumi.

Features:

• Video Uploading
• Upload video in any format (over http)
• Large video file uploads via FTP (automatically added to Plone site)
• Expanded video metadata set (Director, Producer, Date Produced etc.)
• Video Transcoding and Playback using Transcode Star
• Automatic server-side transcoding to mp4 H.264 and Ogg Theora (configurable) via ffmpeg
• Embedded playback via Flowplayer
• Automatic thumbnail extraction
• Auto extraction of video duration
• HTML5 video tag support
• User Interface / Theme
• Custom templates for browsing videos
• Enhanced author page (user profile) including latest videos, news & events and personal latest videos vodcast feed
• Customised workspaces and video publishing workflow
• Language and Translations
• Indonesian translation of Plumi and Plone interface
• Built in content translation via LinguaPlone
• Classification, Licensing and Ratings
• Content ratings
• Classifications system into country, genre and topic using ATVocabulary Manager
• Tagcloud of keywords usingqi.portlet.TagCloud
• Content Licensing including Creative Commons licensing (through their API), the GNU Free Documentation License or you can add custom licenses or use traditional Copyright
• RSS and Discussion
• RSS feeds with media enclosures (or "vodcasts") created automatically based on taxonomy items - eg country, genre, member, topic or through creating custom smart folders usingqRSS2Syndication
• enhanced comments functionality using Plone Discussions
• Back End
• Multiple load-balanced Zope instances using Zeo-clusters managed using Supervisor
• Caching via Varnish
• Production and development builds available

What is new in this release:

• This is a stable production-ready release, including big improvements in the UI and the backend.
• Major changes in 4.5 centered around creation of a new Plumi skin using Diazo, replacing gunicorn with uwsgi, implementation of the Amara subtitling engine, and adding a video upload progress bar. Other improvements include: removing views/downloads from iframe for embedding, an update to the latest mediaelement.js, fixing of fullscreen playback, numerous improvements to the new Plumi skin, a re-ordered user menu, removal of the callouts folder, and improved video upload stability.

What is new in version 4.3.1:

• This release focused on minor improvements to the user interface including tweaking the mediaelement.js HTML5 video player and Universal Subtitles integration, using the favicon as a logo / link back to the Plumi site when embedded, use of standard video listings template for language look ups, making FTP uploads added in private state by default, changes to piwik settings for video play/download statistics, making logos appear correctly in Creative Commons license chooser, changing link to author page not member page for username links in various templates, making callouts private to remove from interface and adding Universal Subtitles to the featured video on the front page.

What is new in version 4.0:

• fix authorlisting error if a user doesn't have a member folder [clopy]
• remove duplicate icons for news and events [clopy]
• fix login form allignment issue on safari [clopy]
• update personalize form for plone 4 [clopy]
• restored category and country information on video listings [clopy]
• removed homepages field for the final release [clopy]

What is new in version 3.1.2:

• A new 3.1.2 Plumi package has been released including an important security patch. Please update your Plumi 3.x sites immediately.

What is new in version 3.0:

• upgraded to latest Plone stable release - 3.3.5
• auto-creation of thumbnail image from uploaded video
• large file uploads - integrated FTP support
• Ogg transcoded version for download or playing in the browser
• html5 support
• Built in blob support to improve large file handling
• New, more stable and configurable transcoding framework (Transcode Daemon)
• Updated flowplayer
• Auto extraction of video duration
• Number of videos in each listing now displayed
• Ability to look up other user interested same topic areas
• Indonesian translation of Plumi and Plone interface
• Built in content translation via LinguaPlone
• Ability to rate content
• Increased flash player size and quality
• Ability to add related items, location information and language when publishing a video
• Auto-notifications on retraction or rejection of content
• New cleaner design
• Date of release now goes back to 1960
• All earthly countries are now included in taxonomy by default
• Ajaxification of commenting including profile thumbnails associated with comments

What is new in version 0.2.3:

• ATVideo product bugfixes, including fixing the CallOuts content type.
• Improvements were made for integrating with other Plone 3rd party products, RSS2 feeds on events, and news smart folders.
• Indytube, the video transcoding engine, was upgraded to work with Flowplayer 2.2.4.
• A 'same name - different file extension' bug was fixed.
• More video file types are transcoded by default, including FLV and DIVX.
• Bugs with event subscribers were fixed in PlumiSkin, so automatically generated emails are sent correctly upon review and publishing of content.

What is new in version 0.2.2:

• A Flash player is now available on the front page as part of the "feature videos" section.
• The thumbnail submitted with the video now overlays the flash player as the splash image.
• An animated progress bar indicates a video is uploading on step 3 of the submission form.
• The progress bar is merely an animated GIF at this point and does not communicate with the server.
• Transmission metadata standard draft 1.0 is now ready, providing the appropriate atom feed.

What is new in version 0.2.1:

• Minor bugfixes.

Requirements:

• Zope 2.9.8-final
• Plone 2.5.3-final