ImcVideoIndyTube: Indytube - a free alternative to youtube

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USER level (home computer admin): How to view a flash video or indytube video with free software

It is unclear whether or not a free solution is known. -- BouD - 09 Dec 2006

see flowplayer - http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/

gnash

• http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ - under heavy development as of December 2006
• from the gnash-0.7.2 README:

Gnash supports the majority of Flash opcodes up to SWF version 7, and
a wide sampling of ActionScript classes for SWF version 7. All the core
ones are implemented, and many of the newer ones work, but may be missing
some of their methods. All unimplemented opcodes and ActionScript classes
and methods print a warning when using -v with gnash or gprocessor. Using
gprocessor -v is a quick way to see why a movie isn't playing correctly.

• BUG: gnash shows SWF files but not FLV files - indytube requires a player which understands both formats

installing gnash, debugging indytube/gnash

debian hints

• Try:

aptitude install libboost-thread1.33.0c2a libboost-dev 
aptitude install libgtkglext1-dev libmad0-dev
aptitude install libsdl1.2-dev
aptitude install libcurl3-dev  # may not be needed

mplayer - mplayerplug-in

In order to see a video in your browser, you probably need something like mplayerplugin: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayerplug-in/

However, mplayer itself may have problems:

mplayer FlowPlayer.swf
MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz (Family: 15, Model: 1, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf

Playing FlowPlayer.swf.
libavformat file format detected.
[swf @ 0x867a910]Compressed SWF format not supported
LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed
libavformat file format detected.
[swf @ 0x867a910]Compressed SWF format not supported
LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed


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SERVER ADMIN level: How to run indytube on a server, e.g. running an indymedia CMS

• http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-tech/2006-December/1208-bl.html
  • http://codecoop.org/projects/indytube/
• See also: Devel

patches

• warning to add so that people understand the problem of non-free software - you may need to change this depending on what sort of html filters you have in your CMS:

<span style="font-weight:bold">WARNING: 
the macromedia flash plugin is 
<span style="font-color:red">non-<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free</span> software.</a>
</span>

Updates

The latest version of IndyTube is available at http://codecoop.org/projects/indytube/

EngageMedia have enable IndyTube to work with Plone/Plumi: https://svn.engagemedia.org/project/indytube/tags/plumi-0.1-2/
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