An Open Source “YouTube”
Silvia Pfeiffer
Vquence
OSDC, 4th Dec 2008

Overview
• Software to publish video
• Introducing: Fez/Fedora
• Features
• Demo
• When to choose what

Software to publish video

1. Foreign Hosting

Webpage
<embed>

2. Self-hosting inside CMS

wordTube plugin

3. Self-hosting off-site

“My
TUBE”

Build your own “YouTube”

Fez / FedoraCommons

Web Interface for
archiving and publishing
Digital Collection
Repository

FedoraCommons
• http://www.fedora.info/
• Java, tomcat
• Postgres or MySQL
• Apache
• Old Debian package only

Fez
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/fez
• http://dev-repo.library.uq.edu.au/wiki/
• University of Queensland
• PHP
• MySQL or Postgres
• Apache
• No Debian packages

Fez example installation

Fez Features
• Document Archive
• Access Control Roles: Lister, Viewer,
Creator, Editor, Approver
• Default Aggregation APIs
• Workflows: flow of user GUI forms
• Full-text Search Index using Solr
• Controlled Vocabularies

Fez Video Features
• Video Upload with Metadata
• Automated Video Transcoding using
FFMpeg
• Automated Thumbnailing using FFMpeg
• Embeddable JW Video Player
• Playlists

Demo

When to choose what video
publishing solution

Thank you
Questions?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fez/