[IMC-Video] video.indymedia

[HAMISH at riseup.net]

Hi video crew,

If people aren’t familiar with broadcast machine they can check out  
our install here: http://www.undercurrents.org/OfflineTV/index.php we  
can give you a temp admin login to have a look at the admin interface  
if you mail me. Its good but too flaky to seriously use the current  
version - the is active development so hopefully this should be  
soughed...

What would be really useful would be to have something like  
video.indymedia.org (or archive.org) automatically mirror the content  
from the RSS media feeds to build up a "quality" media libery and  
share the hosting around in an intelligent way. Thus instead of having  
lots of discreet data bases - the would instead be a "soup" of RSS  
aggregators and hosters - and the individual sights would be a view  
onto this "soup" and each share some of the hosting. Robust and  
decentralized, with an "instituanul back up" of archive.org permanent  
storage to fallback on – BUT NOT TO RALEIGH ON.

If your proposed sight doesn’t except and supply its content by media  
RSS then its not much use - the key thing is except this is lacking  
now in most video sight projects, if we have to add content to each  
sight then the will be more empty dead projects littered about... I  
just won’t to post ones.

Hamish
www.undercurrents.org


Quoting and <and at axxs.org>:

> Hey,
> On 14/09/2006, at 6:10 PM, Doug wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have few problems with the way IMCUK handles video. The 20Mb
>> limit is a
>> good discipline which provides fast downloads and for anything
>> bigger a simple
>> link to the excellent Archive.org will suffice.
>>
>> Of course a dedicated video CMS would be good but who is going to
>> get it
>> together and most of all maintain it? There would be the thorny
>> problems
>> of hiddens, unticks and spam. We can't even manage the simple
>> calender of
>> events linked from the UK site so what would it be like being
>> spammed with,
>> say,  porno video? It is important that the Collective should have
>> complete
>> control and not delegate it.
>>
>> I wouldn't be happy with sites carrying advertising and the sites
>> that Anna
>> mentioned seem too regionally specific and might be subject to
>> 'content pulling'.
>
> I also work with EngageMedia. I don't think Anna's suggestion was
> that everyone should be publishing to this EM but that the software
> is being packaged in a way so that it is easy to distribute, modify,
> install etc. for people who want to create a video site. For simple
> sites something like broadcast machine is probably better, however
> those wanting to have a large community with more features might find
> the software worth checking out.
>
> As far as "content pulling" goes EngageMedia itself won't be an open
> publishing site but does aim to be permeable and build a permissions
> system that allows trusted users to automatically publish whilst
> other users would have to have their content checked by a community
> of admins first. In the future hopefully users could bump up or down
> another users status to define if they needed their content checked
> or not. You could however switch such a system off and allow people
> to just automatically publish if you wanted.
>
> People interested in the the discussion around CMSs for Indymedia
> might also want to check out the CMS survey list people have been
> building of late.
> http://techmeet.sarava.org/English/CMSSurveyList
>
> Cheers.
> And.
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Doug.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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