MetaVidWiki: when you need a web video solution

Silvia Pfeiffer and John Ferlito

Vquence

OSDC, 4th Dec 2008

Overview

• Open Codecs

• Mv_embed

• MetaVidWiki– Search– Video Stream View– Sequencer

• When to use MetaVidWiki

Open Codecs

Alternatives to Flash

HTML5 baseline codec?

What about CMS support?

Preparing content

• FFMpeg2theora: transcoding from other formats to Ogg Theora/Vorbis

ffmpeg2theora --sync $inputfile -p preview -o $file.ogv

Preparing content

• Mplayer: create thumbnails

mplayer -ss 120 -frames 1 -vo jpeg $file.ogv

Preparing your server

Aim: time offset serving of content

• Apache with mod_annodex

• oggzchop cgi

Require Xiph and Annodex libraries.

Debian packages available.

mv_embed

• Javascript library for in-browser Ogg Theora/Vorbis support

• Embed video into web page

<video src="$file.ogv">

• Also supports playlists

<playlist src="$file.xsfp">

What mv_embed does

• Native Browser support for video tag• Native Browser support for Ogg

Theora/Vorbis• application/ogg browser plugin

– Vlc– Mplayer– Totem– XiphQT

• cortado

http://metavid.org/w/index.php/Mv_embed

MetaVidWiki

Debian package available.

Demo

http://www.metavid.org/

Search

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Video Stream View

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Sequencer

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Upload

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

When to use Metavid

If your needs are as follows:

• Long-form video• Annotation needs• Structured Search• Online video editor

Metavid is your solution.

Questions?

http://www.metavid.org/