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MyMediaManager 1.3.1 - 09/06/04
INSTALLATION: Please read the DEPENDS.txt file to find out what products this product rely on. Please read the INSTALL.txt file in order to read the installation instructions. * Read the CHANGES.txt to find out what has changed since the last version.
USAGE: When you have followed the INSTALL.txt file and installed MyMediaManager succesfully, you are ready to set up the system for your users. Before your users can start adding media content, you must set up the medianet, install server plugins and add some media servers for them to use:
- Go to Zope Management Interface (ZMI)
- Find the
portal_medianettool in the portal root and click on it. - In the
portal_medianettool there is some extra management tabs:Server Plugins,Encoder PluginsandStreaming Formats. Click onServer Pluginsin order to install the required server plugins. - The
Server Pluginspage will list all the server plugins you have installed on the filesystem for MyMediaManager to use. Now click onInstallfor the plugins you want to install. Once installed, you can use the server types on the portal.
The following only applies to CPS/CMS sites - Plone sites will have the Setup medianet
action integrated into the 'Control Panel':
After installing the server plugins (and when logged in as a user with the Manage Portal
permission - Managers have it by default), you will have an action in your portal named
Setup Medianet. Click on this and you will come to the admin form of the medianet.
Here you can add the different servers. Click on Start server wizard in order to add a
new server. It takes you through 4 steps:
- Step 1: Select the type of content (Live or On-demand depending on what plugins you installed).
- Step 2: Streaming format. A list of formats will be listed depending on what plugins you installed.
- Step 3: Streaming Server: A list of server types will be listed depending on what plugins you installed.
- Step 4: Title and description: You must give you server a title that tells the purpose
of the server (e.g.
Real Archive Server) since the title of the server will be used various places in the system user interface. - Create the server.
As with any other content in your portal, media servers are portal content. So in order
for others to use them, they will need privileges to access the server. In a standard setup,
this means that your servers need to be published.
MyMediaManager uses ftp to upload the media files to the media servers. So you need to create a content dir on your media server which can be accessed by ftp (and have a ftp server on the media server) in order for the upload to success.
After going through the steps above, your MyMediaManager should be up an running.
You can read the the online documentation at: http://www.mmmanager.org/documentation.
And we have a demo-site running at: http://demo.mmmanager.com Feel free to create an account there and try out My Media Manager !
ZopeMag also brought an article about My Media Manager. It can be found at: http://www.zopemag.com/Issue004/Section_Articles/article_MyMediaManager.html It describes the basic of streaming and has an introduction to My Media Manager.
Having problems with setting up My Media Manager ? Visit our Tracker at http://www.mmmanager.org/collectors/mymediamanager or subscribe to our mailinglist at http://www.mmmanager.org/mailinglists
Having general Zope problems ? Visit http://www.zope.org/Resources