[IMC-Video] Indytube Email List and Project Page

[anna at engagemedia.org]

Hi all,

This is the email list for Indytube, the simple, CMS-agnostic solution 
for in-browser streaming video with asynchronous encoder(s):
http://lists.codecoop.org/mailman/listinfo/indytube-coders

Indytube is a great project to collaborate on, no matter which CMS you 
are using to run your video distribution site. This makes it a key area 
to work together upon for IMCs and for social-change video-sharing 
projects in the Transmission network as it does not require us all to 
move to the same platform, but we can still share the advantages of 
collaborative development on transcoding and embedded playback of video. 
Please join up to the email list if you'd like to get involved or keep 
abreast of development.

Indytube was written initially by John Duda as an alternative to YouTube 
for the Indymedia network. It transcodes uploaded video in any format to 
.flv video using mencoder on the server-side and uses Flowplayer to 
display and control video-playback in the browser.

There have been extensions built to enhance Indytube:
1. to use Red5 to stream the Flash video
2. to use ffmpeg2theora to transcode to Ogg Theora/Vorbis instead of, or 
additionally to, Flash video
3. to use Cortado to handle Ogg playback in the browser
4. to use Icecast to stream the Ogg video

You can see Indytube in action here as part of the Plumi video-sharing 
package for Plone in the demo site:
http://demo.plumi.org/Members/espiBlog/videos/fuerza.mov/view

There is more info on Indytube here in the draft of the report on FOSS 
video codecs:
http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/FOSS_Codecs_For_Online_Video:_Usability_Uptake_and_Development_1.2#Flash_Pseudo-Streaming_and_Browser_Playback

This is the project page on codecoop.org for Indytube - please join up 
and add your feature requests, bug reports, or new code!!
http://codecoop.org/projects/indytube/

Cheers,
Anna