Re: [Ndlb-developers] video support

[pema g. <pem...@gm...>]

Dear David,

We have filed for the visa for Andres. We should be able to get 
everything done to bring Andres to Bhutan in the coming week. Andres I 
am looking forward to see you soon here in Bhutan.

Pema

df...@gm... wrote:
> Andres
>
> II am very excited by this too. H owever I remain confused about the comrpssion issue and codex issues and how this will work. We need to talk. I am back in us by Monday noon. When are you free Monday to talk? Best for me would be as late as possible in evening - does that work and if so at what time? What is status of Bhutan trip?
>
> Thanks. David
> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Andres Montano" <amo...@ga...>
>
> Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 02:31:47 
> To:<ndl...@li...>
> Subject: [Ndlb-developers] video support
>
>
> Hi,
>
> An important update has taken place in NDLB: we have moved on from it being
> an Image Management System to a Media Management System. Now besides having
> pictures, it also accepts videos.
>
> All the user has to do is upload a video and the server automatically does
> the rest (conversions, thumbnails, etc). For all of this to work the proper
> gems and software (rmovie, rvideo, ffmpeg, and menconder) should be
> installed on the server of course. There is a long way to go here, but for
> now the basic functionality is there.
>
> Tenzin, you may want to change the process method under the video model to
> the appropriate command-line instructions for it to work on debian linux.
> Right now the commands there are what worked for windows.
>
> David, I haven't heard back from Matt nor Bess regarding the above software
> so it doesn't work on aleph yet. What is available though is playback. I
> have uploaded a sample generated on my development box to aleph. You can
> find it by browsing by location to Bhumthang or browsing by collection to
> Religion.
>
> A lot of changes have to take place like renaming some sections from Images
> to Media, listing videos and images separately, displaying link to low-res
> video playback, link to download video, thumbnail being the middle of the
> video and not the beginning, etc. But at least the first step, which was
> getting all the various pieces of technology to work, was taken. Anyhow I am
> very excited about this. Take care,
>
> 	Andres
>
>
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