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    • Webcam Capture

    Posted by Kent Barrett posts: 175 Canada

    Hello Tikists,

    We need to let users capture videos from their webcams & upload the files & put them in a web page. Facebook does this and I've seen it elsewhere. Example:

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    What do we need to make this happen?

    Merci!

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee posts: 4656 Japan

    We've used ustream.tv in the past for TikiFest video streaming and recording (see http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tikifests. It's free, and could be worth looking into. In this case the files are hosted on their server, once recorded, so you could link to them, as embedding code is provided.

    Kultura has been integrated into Tiki but the methods are still getting ironed out, as far as I know. This has a lot of potential.

    Maybe some other people have some ideas.

    -- Gary

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    Posted by Kent Barrett posts: 175 Canada

    Kaltura is overkill I think. We'd like people to be able to record "into" the page a la Facebook. No editing or compilation is required, just record & store. Bonus if this can be put in a tracker form.

    The intended use is for people to be able to record introductions for example:

    "Hi, my name is Kent and I'll be the MC at our presentation at..."

    and we'd want the video files to stay in-house, as sensitive information will be recorded.

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee posts: 4656 Japan

    I'm not sure there's a lightweight way to do that. Facebook's "in the page" recording has the backend application to enable it, which seems to be a problem for sites without the resources. See http://www.kaltura.org/community-edition-no-web-cam-recording for a similar question about webcam recording in Drupal. I did a little searching and all of the solutions pointed to using the dedicated sites like ustream.tv one way or another. That's why I'm thinking Kultura might be Tiki's best bet, if you could use just a subset of its tools for this job.

    -- Gary

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    Posted by Kent Barrett posts: 175 Canada
    Well, rats and gah. Why did I think it would be simple. Kultura needs Apache on port 80 too, which is where bbb wants the nginx server. La la laaaa.
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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee posts: 4656 Japan

    I checked a little more and came across the Kultura-based "all in one video pack" plugin for Wordpress (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-video-pack/). This does just what you're looking for. Actually it's a video player plugin that can play existing files, but it also has a record from webcam option. I imagine the Drupal and Joomla plugins are similar. I installed it in a Wordpress installation I have on my localhost and it didn't actually work (compatibility with the latest Wordpress version isn't listed plus I don't know if running on a local Windows box creates extra problems), but I went through the post edit and video record procedure, which is pretty neat. Now, what we need is for someone to code a Tiki version of this plugin. Although it uses Kaltura code, it doesn't seem to require any Kultura installation other than the plugin itself in the Wordpress file directory. I submitted a feature request at dev.tiki.org (http://dev.tiki.org/tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId=3647).

    -- Gary

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    Posted by Kent Barrett posts: 175 Canada

    Woot!

    That's why you get the big mug, sir.

    Cheers,

    -Kent

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