Just a note on mediaelement.js - John Dyer, who wrote it, recently told me he is selling it to a video management company but that they will be contractually obligated to keep it open source (MIT or GPL).
Also note that for some of us, it is insufficient to say something is "open source". Because we want to freely distribute our product and allow commercial entities to pick up support for it without a lot of licensing complications, it is useful to distinguish GPL-style licenses (which we must avoid) from MIT-style licenses (which we embrace). Best, Mark -- Mark Notess Variations Development Manager Library Technologies and Digital Libraries IU Bloomington Libraries / University Information Technology Services Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 47405 812.856.0494 (w) [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Schulte Olaf A. Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 3:10 PM To: Opencast Community Cc: UNIVERSITY MEDIA PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION - MEMBERS ONLY; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Opencast] Flowplayer - anyone using it? Hello Kris Flowplayer is the "outgoing" player for our non-REPLAY distribution, mainly HD video. With a licence, we were able to implement features we were looking for quite easily (logo, mute play, audio only etc.) and performance was never a major issue. However, with the advent of Matterhorn and HTML5 distribution, we're looking at different solutions, mediaelement.js (as mentioned by Brian) being one of them - and it being open source might be a good argument over rivalling JW player (Longtail). Regards Olaf A. Von: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Im Auftrag von Brian O'Hagan Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Mai 2012 20:43 An: Opencast Community Cc: UNIVERSITY MEDIA PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION - MEMBERS ONLY; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Betreff: Re: [Opencast] Flowplayer - anyone using it? Hello Kris, Our group employs Flowplayer for a number of projects, including Mediathread [1], as well as for our custom, local services for course-related online video. It has been a particularly helpful media player for our group as we serve a good amount of our video files using http streaming (i.e. pseudostreaming) in Flash and (soon) H.264. One pain point in using the open-source version is the "Flowplayer" branding, which can be removed if you buy a license. medialement.js [2], is another media player we are looking at closer these days. Guess it comes down to if you are looking for a media player that provides general playback, or deeper integration with your own tools at MIT... Either way, I hope that this is helpful. Cheers, Brian [1] http://mediathread.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/ [2] http://mediaelementjs.com/ --- Brian O'Hagan Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning ccnmtl.columbia.edu/staff/ohagan<http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/staff/ohagan> twitter: @britubes skype: bohaganjr On May 2, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Kris Brewer wrote: Hey Everyone, Looking into Flowplayer (http://flowplayer.org/) and wanted to see if anyone else has used it yet (latest version) and what they think about it. How has the playback performance been? What plugins and feature sets are you using (do you like them/do they work as promised)? General feedback or if anyone has used any other Open Source video players that offer as rich a set of plugins and extensions, etc. Thanks, Kris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kris Brewer, JD MIT TechTV Webmaster & Community Liaison MIT Libraries: Specialized Content & Services Academic Media Production Services Distance Education & Streaming Operations MIT Video Productions http://techtv.mit.edu<http://techtv.mit.edu/> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 617-452-3157 _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/community To unsubscribe please email [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> _______________________________________________
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