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The Islandora Video Solution Pack is used to ingest digital videos into Fedora. It supports creation of derivatives in various different video formats, and requires the server-side installation of accompanying codecs to enable this functionality. It can also be configured to stream the video to a player window on-site using JWPlayer.

Dependencies

• Islandora
• Tuque
• ffmpegFFmpeg is required if MKV and MP4 derivatives are to be created on the same server as Islandora. Compliation guides: Ubuntu, CentOS
• ffmpeg2Theora is required (optional) is only necessary if OGG audio and thumbnail derivatives are to be created on the same server as Islandora (Optional  - Instructions).
• The Islandora Islandora JWPlayer library (and the Libraries API module) or the Video.js player are required to play videos in a video object's 'View' tab

FFmpeg sample compile flags: --prefix=/usr/local/stow/ffmpeg-1.1.4 --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libfaac --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid

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Release Notes and Downloads

Installation

This installation cam can be very tricky, and possibly the most difficult of all components of the Islandora stack. Please see this post regarding past installs on the Islandora Google Group for details (please replace any references to release 7.x-1.3 with 7.x.1-5):
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/islandora/wuOjmRTY5Rs

Configuration

Set the path for FFmpeg, select configuration options and viewer in Administration » Islandora » Video Solution Pack (admin/islandora/video).

The Islandora Video Solution pack can be configured at http://path.to.your.site/admin/islandora/solution_pack_config/video, and includes the following options:

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• Keep original file after ingest? - Check this option to retain files uploaded to a video collection as a datastream appended to the video object

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FFmpeg/Theora executables

For derivative creation, the Video Solution Pack needs to know the location of the binaries that perform conversion. On Unix-based systems, this can often be done by running:

whereis ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora

and checking Check for binary package files located in folders called 'bin' (such as /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, etc.).

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The Video Solution Pack comes with the following objects in http://path.to.your.site/admin/islandora/solution_pack_config/solution_packs:

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The Video Solution Pack comes with the Video MODS Form.

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If you would like to contribute to this module, please check out our helpful  CONTRIBUTING.md. In addition, we have helpful Documentation for Developers info info, as well as our our Developers section section on the Islandora.ca site.

The Video Solution Pack includes an ingest/purge load test that is disabled and unusable by default. This particular solution pack was chosen for load testing due to the resource-heavy process of creating video derivatives and ingesting several potentially-massive files. To enable and use it:

1. Make sure that the Testing module is enabled and that all prerequisites for derivative creation are satisfied for the Video Solution Pack.
2. Edit the islandora_video.info file in this folder, removing the ; and whitespace before the line files[] = tests/islandora_video_load_test.test
3. Create a folder in the the tests/fixtures/ called  called load, and place as many videos in that folder as you would like to ingest. These files all must fit within the size specified by your php.ini file's maximum post size, and they must have a file extension supported by the Video Solution Pack, otherwise they will not be picked up by the load test.
4. Clear the Drupal cache.

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