Came across this open source video platform recently. It’s called Panda and its open source of course. Panda is an open source solution for video uploading, encoding and streaming. Unlike other video platforms, Panda is not just a service for encoding your videos for the web; Panda handles the whole process. From the upload form to streaming, Panda takes control. By providing an elegant REST API, Panda makes it completely painless to implement full video uploading, encoding and streaming functionality to your web application in a matter of hours.
- Runs completely within Amazon’s Web Servicesutilising EC2, S3 and SimpleDB.
- Everything contained within one elegant Merb application.
- Support for the encoding profiles which FFmpeg supports. They include FLV for flash and H264 for iPhone.
- Panda gem for painless integration with Ruby on Rails and Merb.
- Lovely little admin dashboard for managing your videos.
Panda is definitely something worth looking into if you are in need of a video platform of some kind. It claims to be easy to integrate. Here’s how it basically works. Once a video has been uploaded the encoding daemon will pickup the job and encode the video to the encoding profiles you specify. Upon completion Panda will send a notification back to your application to let it know the video has finished encoding and can be watched.
Visit pandastream.com for more details.
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October 30th, 2008 at 1:29 am
I’d also like to suggest that you take a look at Kaltura. We have developed a comprehensive open source video platform that enables everything from basic video display, to advanced interactive video management.
You can grab a player from our user zone - http://corp.kaltura.com/userzone/
Or grab our code from SourceForge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/
Or download our free WordPress video plugin and/or Video-wiki extension for MediaWiki - http://corp.kaltura.com/download