A simple video support for Plone, mainly based on collective.flowplayer.
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Note
Deprecation warning Although RedTurtle Video will still work for Plone 3.3 to 4.3 (read below), releases from 1.1.0 and above will be focused on helping people migrate to wildcard.media
RedTurtle Video have a very long history and we loved it, but it's fate is linked to the status of
collective.flowplayer, which is not very clear and still based on a very old
release of Flowplayer based on Flash technology.
Plone 4.3 compatibility works... more or less (you will experience some issues originated by
changes done in collective.flowplayer > 3).
But this is not the main motivation: meanwhile the web moved on (HTML 5 is here!) and a new promising (Dexterity based) product is available: wildcard.media.
We really think that Plone will live better with a single, well done and mainained product instead of having two or more.
All future versions of RedTurtle Video will help people moving on, migrating to this new package, and our future work will be probably focused on contributing to that package instead.
RedTurtle Video is still your best friend if you need Plone < 4.3 compatibility.
Go to you portal_setup ZMI tool and run the "RedTurtle Video: migrate to wildcard.media"
Generic Setup profile.
After that: uninstall RedTurtle Video and remove it from your buildout.
NB: Products.contentmigration is required, and you must rely on
version 2.1.8 or better:
[buildout] ... [versions] ... Products.contentmigration = 2.1.8
wildcard.media is not perfect (yet). There's a big feature that is missing: supporting other remote video sources different from YouTube.
We will probably work on this in future.
(...in case you still want to use RedTurtle Video...)
This add to your Plone portal two new types:
- Video file for providing a video content directly from a video file compatible with flowplayer formats. In the video view you can copy/paste the video embedding code, for seeing this video in other sites.
- Video link for a remote video resource
Also you can insert the year of the video and the duration.
A "Look" section will also give you fields for:
- add an optional image field, for the video screenshot/splashscreen data
- video display size
Add to your site a new "Video file", then provide a video format compatible with Flowplayer. When you save it RedTurtle Video try to take from the video source some metadata like the duration and video size (width and height). Later you can modify those values manually.
If you provided also the image field, this can be used (optionally) as video starting splash image.
All other amazing features came directly from the power of collective.flowplayer.
If you already used collective.flowplayer in your site for manage internal video and now you want
to migrate them to RedTurtle "Video file" contents, you can use the @@flowplayer-video-migration view.
You need to have installed also Products.contentmigration.
Please, backup your data before trying this!
Using collective.flowplayer you have no compatiblity with iPhone/iPad/iWhatever devices as far as they don't support Flash technology.
Using RedTurtle Video and providing:
- a splash screen image
- a compatible video format like mp4
...you will be able to use also those kind of devices.
Always wrapping collective.flowplayer features, you can provide a special kind of link that point to
a compatible format resource. Again you can play with all additional fields, adjusting video size and
metadata.
The link can be to a remote site that host flv of other compatible types, or a link to an "Video file"
in the same Plone site.
One of the most interesting feature is the support to URL to 3rd party remote video services like:
- YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/) - using collective.rtvideo.youtube
- Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/) - using collective.rtvideo.vimeo
- Metacafe (http://www.metacafe.com/) - using collective.rtvideo.metacafe
Enhancing this list with additional providers is quite simple (see the documentation given with the product).
You are welcome to contribute and release other collective.rtvideo.yourpreferredremoteservice add-on!
Also this will give you a new "Video gallery" portlet, similar to the ones you'll get with
collective.flowplayer ("Video player").
This portlet will show links to a configurable set of videos, displaying in the portlet the splash image.
You can still use basic "Video player" portlet given by collective.flowplayer.
Default video size (that you can change from the "Look" fieldset) is 400x300. You can change this default
going to ZMI, in portal_properties and change values in redturtle_video_properties.
Tested on all Plone versions from 3.3 to 4.3, with many compatible collective.flowplayer versions.
Using buildout:
[buildout]
...
eggs =
...
redturtle.video
To add also additional video providers support:
[buildout]
...
eggs =
...
collective.rtvideo.youtube
...
mycompany.myservice
If you find bugs or have a good suggestion, open a ticket at https://github.com/RedTurtle/redturtle.video/issues/
Developed with the support of:
All of them supports the PloneGov initiative.
This product was developed by RedTurtle Technology team.
- Giorgio Borelli (gborelli) for adding tests, fixing issues and providing Vimeo support.
- Christian Ledermann (nan010) for providing Google Video, Metacafe support and, not last, very good documentation.