Hi all,
My semester is finally ending so I'm able to slowly start working
towards the Metavidwiki GSoC project - very exciting! After chatting
with Michael a while back I've started working on integrating
flowplayer with mv_embed
(http://metavid.opengov.org/irclog/metavid.log.20Apr2008.html).
Anyway, after updating from the repository today I ran into a few
snags that should perhaps be documented (and I'd be happy to add them
to the wiki if appropriate). One thing that came up was that
Metavidwiki has a dependency on GD, which might not be a problem for
most people but PHP that comes with OS X doesn't support GD :-(.
There are some downloadable packages that do (e.g.
http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/) so there's an easy fix -
should I add this info to the wiki?
Also, I needed to change permissions on the stream_images directory or
MV_StreamImage.php complains. I don't remember that from the install
instructions - should I add this info somewhere as well?
Thanks,
Stjepan
Hello all,
I have now officially submitted two overlapping project proposals
regarding MetaVidWiki to GSoC:
* Easing user upload of video for use with MetaVidWiki, submitted
to Wikimedia Foundation.
* Enabling efficent annotation of archive.org hosted videos
through MetaVidWiki, submitted to Internet Archive.
The full text of each proposal as well as supplemental materials can
be found here:
http://urbanstew.org/metavidwiki/
Many thanks to the MetaVidWiki community for helping me get started
with the proposals (as well as creating such a useful tool :))
Kind regards,
Stjepan
Hello,
Since the GSoC deadline has been extended, I have posted a draft of my
project proposal online:
http://urbanstew.org/metavidwiki/proposal.html
Excerpt:
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I propose to do a number of modifications to MetaVidWiki, with the
common goal of improving the ease in which users can add their own
video content to the Wiki.
The specific tasks are:
* making the process of video uploading to a MetaVidWiki system an
easy one-step process (currently, uploading a video file to the system
requires several non-trivial steps)
* adding the ability to use / annotate externally hosted video
(from sites such as archive.org and YouTube)
---
There is also a supplemental materials page which currently has next
to nothing (but where I'll try to do some proof-of-concept exercises
in the next few days):
http://urbanstew.org/metavidwiki/
Any feedback about the project / proposal is more than welcome (and
thanks to those of you who have already helped me with MetaVidWiki and
with the project ideas).
Kind regards,
Stjepan