Project Web Page: http://albert.sacredsf.org/~nmcspadden/v_engine/
Category : Poster
Session Title: On Demand Video Publishing – Your own free homegrown YouTube
Session Description: Construct your school's own Open Source YouTube equivalent, a safe and secure environment for hosting video, completely under school control and policy.
Theme & Strand: Technology Infrastructure -> Open Source
Keywords: video, youtube, web, multimedia, Open Source
PROPOSAL SUMMARY
YouTube offers enormous possibilities for creative expression. Such freedom, however, may not always be appropriate for school and student usage. For schools that want multimedia and video production to be a part of student work, they need a safe haven for publishing their content. A free, Open Source, school-controlled equivalent to YouTube, where school policy can be enforced is the answer.
Outside of copyright and US laws, YouTube doesn't have any real restrictions on allowable content. Education has different requirements and restrictions for appropriate school-endorsed material, so a lot more control is needed. What if a school could have a non-commercial YouTube that allowed for complete control over all aspects of the video publishing process, completely for free? We describe a system that is designed to be easy for anyone, allowing users to take a movie file and publish it onto the web or intranet YouTube-style. School policy can apply anywhere during this process, thanks to the customizability of the package.
Schools can decide on matters such as content review- does it occur before or after publishing? Who gets access to the material posted? Where do those published videos go? Should they be posted immediately on-demand, or on a set schedule? Can non-school viewers access this material? Are students' names associated with their work? All of these questions can be answered and decided according to administrative guidelines, allowing schools the kind of necessary safety and customization that YouTube can't guarantee.
It's a very simple construction. Build the Open Source packages, find a space to host the web pages, and either use a file-sharing system or the web-based uploader to add new content. The video conversion script runs and voila, web-hosted video. It's safe, it's controlled, it's easy to use, and customizable according to your specifications. Your own local school-provided YouTube equivalent.
Outline
-Easy to implement, fully documented install process, with sample web pages provided.
-Straightforward video publishing process: upload movie file, wait a few minutes, enjoy published video.
Supporting Research
The following websites provided useful guidelines to
construct this project:
http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/10/08/lighttpd-memcoder-flvtool-for-streaming/
http://www.flashinsider.com/2006/07/26/how-to-create-your-own-youtube-site/
http://rubyforge.org/projects/flvtool2/
http://luar.com.hk/blog/?p=670
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/video.html
http://blog.go4teams.com/?p=56