[IMC-Video] flash player recipe

[Sasha Costanza-Chock]

I agree entirely that video.indy is at this point only minimally 
functional, and is basically getting its ass kicked by corpo video sites 
(obviously, especially YouTube). Christ, we don't even have thumbnails, 
let alone tags, ratings, one click for embed link, auto file conversion 
to multiple formats, etc., and forget about innovating next generation 
stuff like the ability to link to particular moments within a clip and 
true online collaborative editing (think video editing wiki).

Part of it is that there seems to be no-one putting any significant time 
into Nimiq. And honestly, at this point I really feel like its a serious 
mistake to continue with Nimiq if there are no developers working on it.

There are already better FOSS video CMS tools out there, obviously 
people are working on stuff for Drupal, and there are the tools 
developed by participatory culture foundation (broadcast machine, 
videobomb, democracy player).

Frankly, I can't think of any reason to continue with a CMS that no one 
is working on, when there are other projects that a) already have better 
functionality and b) have significant teams of developers constantly 
working on them.

I'm sorry if this sounds harsh to anyone on this list who has put energy 
into Nimiq. Please correct me if I'm wrong and there is some team of 
people working away and soon to release the next, more functional 
version. But if not, it just doesn't make any sense, and we should start 
seriously discussing a switch to a system that is more functional and is 
alive.

Just off the top of my head I can see 3 interesting possibilities:

1. Drupal (duh). And re: the previous post, we can use Archive.org 
instead of Amazon.

2. Broadcast Machine. Not very flexible yet, really, so I don't know if 
it's a good choice, but frankly it would work better than what we have 
and it has developers working on it (it supports thumbnails, tags, 
multiple feeds, user accounts, etc.)

3. A different conception of the site entirely, where we focus less on 
providing a space for people to upload and more on syndicating indymedia 
content from everywhere: from all IMCs, but also could pull video 
content tagged 'indymedia' from every video site (videobomb, mefeedia, 
etc. etc., hell, even youtube)


OK that's more than 2 cents.

peace
schock