EXT: Video Basic (Imagine virtual services)¶

Table of Contents¶

EXT: Video Basic (Imagine virtual services) 1

`Introduction 3 <#1.1.Introduction|outline>`_

What does it do? 3

Requirements 3

Screenshots 3

`Users manual 4 <#1.2.Users%20manual|outline>`_

Add a new video to dam 4

Add a new video to content 6

FAQ 7

`Administration 8 <#1.3.Administration|outline>`_

FAQ 8

`Configuration 9 <#1.4.Configuration|outline>`_

FAQ 9

Reference 10

`Known problems 12 <#1.5.Known%20problems|outline>`_

`To-Do list 13 <#1.6.To-Do%20list|outline>`_

`ChangeLog 14 <#1.7.ChangeLog|outline>`_

Introduction¶

Users manual¶

Administration¶

Please install the Media (DAM) extension (dam) with the Extension Manager:

Go to Extension Manager (Ext Manager)

Select in the dropdown field “import extensions”

Put into the textfield: “dam” (without quotes)

Install the dam extension called as “Media (DAM)” in the category “Backend Modules”

This extensions for dam are recommend:

• MediaCategories (dam_catedit)
• DAM for Content Elements (dam_ttcontent)

Installation of the dam_ivs_videobasic extension:

Install the dam_ivs_videobasic extension with the Extension Manager

Include static (Video Basic (dam_ivs_videobasic)) from this extension to your template configuration

Build qt-faststart from ffmpeg-tools (Shell)

Download the source code from ffmpeg http://ffmpeg.org/download.html

Unpack the archive: tar xvf ffmpeg-0.5.tar.bz2

Change to directory: cd ffmpeg-0.5/tools

Compile the tool: gcc qt-faststart.c -o qt-faststart

Install the tool with root: install -m 755 qt-faststart /usr/bin/qt- faststart

Configuration¶

Configuration the encoding script:

• You need a webserver via SSH to create a cronjob. The server have to access the part of the encoding script from network.
• Unpack the archiv on the webserver ./dam_ivs_videobasic/3rdparty/typo3video.tar.bz2
• Type into the shell: crontab -e
• Insert follow line into the editor: */5 * * * * /usr/bin/php -f /path/to/your/script/typo3videobasic_cronjob.php >> /var/log/typo3video.log
• Create a new database for the encoding script p.e. typo3video
• Import the create.sql into the database “typo3video” (included in the tar.bz2-Archive)
• It's expressly recommended to create a new user for the created database “typo3video”.
• Set in the configuration the database access, the path to the applications and the URL of encoding server: /path/to/your/script/typo3video/config/config.php

Add a project to your encoding server (Shell):

/path/to /your/script/typo3video_command.php add (projectname)

Create a new hash (Shell):

/path/to /your/script/typo3video_command.php renewhash (projectname)

Remove a project with all their files (Shell):

/path/to /your/script/typo3video_command.php remove (projectname)

Configuration of the dam_ivs_videobasic extension:

• URL to the encoding server (without typo3video.php): p.e. http://www.sitename.com/
• Project hash (see “Configuration the encoding script”). p.e. 2227C83e7a9856590c3076cf0be5af3f
• Number of screenshots from video (Integer): p.e. 10
• Set the video width as pixel for embed flash (It's affected the encoded video too): p.e. 352

<div>
###FLASHVIDEO###
<div class="video_title"><strong>###TITLE###:</strong> ###VIDEO_TITLE###</div>
<div class="video_description"><strong>###DESCRIPTION###:</strong> ###VIDEO_DESCRIPTION###</div>
</div>

plugin.tx_damivsvideobasic_pi1 {
    ampersand = xhtml
    flashParams {
            quality = high
            allowscriptaccess = always
            wmode = transparent
            swliveconnect = true
            allowfullscreen = true
            scale = default
    }
    flashVars {
            allowsmoothing = true
            autoplay = false
            buffer = 3
            showtimecode = true
            loop = true
            controlcolour = 0xf4f1ec
            scaleiffullscreen = true
            showscalingbutton = true
    }
    videoTemplate (
            <div>
            ###FLASHVIDEO###
            <div class="video_title"><strong>###TITLE###:</strong> ###VIDEO_TITLE###</div>
            <div class="video_description"><strong>###DESCRIPTION###:</strong> ###VIDEO_DESCRIPTION###</div>
            </div>
    )
}

.tx-damivsvideobasic-pi1 .video_left {
        width: 100%;
        text-align: left;
}

.tx-damivsvideobasic-pi1 .video_center {
        width: 100%;
        text-align: center;
}

.tx-damivsvideobasic-pi1 .video_right {
        width: 100%;
        text-align: right;
}

Known problems¶

no bugs, problems or performance issues.

To-Do list¶

not yet available

ChangeLog¶

22.06.2009 – Sebastian Siebert

initial development

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