The document introduces Fez/Fedora as open source software options to publish video content similar to YouTube. It provides an overview of features for Fez, such as document archiving, access control roles, workflows, full-text search indexing with Solr, and video-specific features like upload, transcoding with FFmpeg, and embeddable video players. It concludes with a recommendation to choose Fez for a self-hosted video solution and a request for any questions.

1. An Open Source “YouTube”
Silvia Pfeiffer
Vquence
OSDC, 4th Dec 2008

2. Overview
• Software to publish video
• Introducing: Fez/Fedora
• Features
• Demo
• When to choose what

3. Software to publish video

4. 1. Foreign Hosting

5. Webpage
<embed>

6. 2. Self-hosting inside CMS

7. wordTube plugin

8. 3. Self-hosting off-site

9. “My
TUBE”

10. Build your own “YouTube”

11. Fez / FedoraCommons

12. Web Interface for
archiving and publishing
Digital Collection
Repository

13. FedoraCommons
• http://www.fedora.info/
• Java, tomcat
• Postgres or MySQL
• Apache
• Old Debian package only

15. Fez
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/fez
• http://dev-repo.library.uq.edu.au/wiki/
• University of Queensland
• PHP
• MySQL or Postgres
• Apache
• No Debian packages

16. Fez example installation

17. Fez Features
• Document Archive
• Access Control Roles: Lister, Viewer,
Creator, Editor, Approver
• Default Aggregation APIs
• Workflows: flow of user GUI forms
• Full-text Search Index using Solr
• Controlled Vocabularies

18. Fez Video Features
• Video Upload with Metadata
• Automated Video Transcoding using
FFMpeg
• Automated Thumbnailing using FFMpeg
• Embeddable JW Video Player
• Playlists

19. Demo

21. When to choose what video
publishing solution

22. Thank you
Questions?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fez/