Mediamosa is an open source video backend built with Drupal. It uses a RESTful API and XML to allow video files to be uploaded, stored, transcoded and streamed through a scalable service-oriented architecture. Key features include access control lists, transcoding with FFmpeg, and support for open standards. Mediamosa provides a media asset management system and can scale to dedicated servers for upload, processing, streaming and thumbnails. It includes Drupal modules to integrate video playback and management into Drupal sites.

1. Mediamosa: Drupal—based open
source video backend
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2. Gold Sponsor of
DrupalCamp Kyiv 2011

3. Silver Sponsors of
DrupalCamp Kyiv 2011

4. Topics
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What is it?
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How is works
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What about client side?
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Key features
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Past and future
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Opportunities
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5. What is Mediamosa
Mediamosa is a video storage back-end
REST calls:
POST, GET
XML
User
Video frontend MediaMosa
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6. Why build own 'youtube'?
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Security
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Transcoding
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Metadata
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… and more -> ...
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7. Key features
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REST is an engine
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Scalable, service-oriented architecture (SOA)
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Using and implementing open standards
(Dublin core, CQL, SOLR)
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ACL: access limitations, f.e. domain and user
level
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Transcoding with FFMpeg
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Distributed job processing architecture
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8. Key features, II
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Supports Open standards
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Using Open protocols
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Code is self-documented
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Is Open source (GPL2) by itself
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Using open source software and approach —
trac, etc
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9. Mediamosa is ...
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Media Asset Management System (MAMS)
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Digital Asset Management System (DAMS)
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10. Asset
Asset Mediafile: Video
(Original)
Title Mediafile: Video
Description (Transcoded FLV)
Mediafile: Video
(Transcoded MPEG4)
DC/QDC fields like creation date, copyright, etc
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11. Collection
Asset 'Animals'
Collection
Asset 'Flowers'
'Biology'
Collection
Asset 'Human Body'
'Medicine'
Asset 'Surgery'
Asset 'Sample Data'
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12. Scalability
Tasks can be split up to dedicated servers:
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Upload/download
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Job
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Streaming
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Still (Thumbnails)
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13. Server Administration page
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14. Drupal frontend: Mediamosa CK
 Several Drupal modules are available
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WLE (White Label Enduser Application)
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Mediamosa CK for Drupal 6
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Mediamosa CK for Drupal 7, based on 'Media' module
– based on nice PHP/Drupal 7 feature called streams
– allows to refer to mediamosa files in the same way as to
YouTube, Flickr, etc.
– youtube:// flickr:// mediamosa://
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15. Front-end applications
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Drupal modules
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Just create anything you like on any platform in
any language, REST is the key
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16. REST sample
REST calls as a MediaMosa communication interface
Example: /mediafile/$mediafile_id [GET]
<items>
<item id="1">
<mediafile_id>V1XjsW9ojjpmUeLcH88QT53w</mediafile_id>
<asset_id>oDGgukVLA6bVQeLjSWZYV7a0</asset_id>
<app_id>14</app_id>
<owner_id>admin</owner_id>
<is_original_file>TRUE</is_original_file>
....
</item>
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17. Implementation
Drupal 7 multisite installation
with a lot of custom classes.
Every REST call, internal or external, is a class.
Drupal 7 with lazy loading is very important.
Developer experience: dive-in time.
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18. Human/machine friendly standards
CQL, Contextual Query Language:
dc.title any fish
dc.title any fish or dc.creator any sanderson
dc.title any fish sortBy dc.date/sort.ascending
RDF, Resource Description Framework:
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.example.org/index.html">
<dc:creator rdf:resource="http://www.example.org/staffid/85740"/>
</rdf:Description>
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19. Drupal front-end sample
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20. What mediamosa is NOT
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No fancy streaming solutions at the moment;
basic HTTP
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Videola
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21. What is good for you in MM
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Developer / system integrator
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An enterpreneur
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A representative from *.edu
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Current development contest
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22. History/ Future
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Development started in 2008
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First release made in June 2009
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Trends: video / eLearning is quite on demand
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Q4 2011: Mediamosa 3.5 planned
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23. Video data today and tomorrow
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24. Useful links
http://mediamosa.org
http://mediamosa.org/api
http://drupal.org/project/media
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/specs/cql.html
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25. Questions?
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+38 096 2323 346
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dennis.povshedny@gmail.com
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