Some Features Updates
June 9th, 2008
A few updates to metavidWiki have been rolled out recently, thought I would take a quick opportunity to point them out.
Search
Search now has a more “google-like” display with text links to “Watch Clip” and “Improve Transcript“. This should make it clear that you can play search results inline and gives the inline search results a larger native video resolution play window.
Remote Embedding:
The remote embedding functionality has been enhanced to include inline transcript with auto scrolling and transcript layer selection. This feature can also be used to select between language tracks. (our site currently only has a single language track) The transcript format is in CMML. So you could use the mv_embed library with other CMS systems to embed video with transcript selection.
Near Future
Our summer of code student Stjepan Rajko is hard at work on adding in compatibility with flash flv video clips. This will enable “html5 like” syntax with ogg video and could use flash video as a backup. Sort of a supper version of Mike Chambers hack with all the added benefits of mv_embed library: inline transcripts/translations , references to download the clip, embed it, playlists etc 
Entry Filed under: coding, development, features, mediaWiki, mv_embed
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1. Mechanic | June 13th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Thanks for feature update and awesome work. Looks great!
2. VideoFreak | July 28th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
well looks like a very interesting project ill have to test it ans see werther i could use it somewhere, i hope it is open source
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