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Hosting video files (flv)

subwiz — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:27:18 GMT

We are planning to host series of video files (flv) for streaming to end users. The visitors will be viewing the video from Liferay portal. The video files are of the sizes ranging between 50mb to 300mb. Immediately on publishing videos on the portal, it will have around 200 visitors viewing it (say

Re: Hosting video files (flv)

mrogers — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:31:03 GMT

You can experiment with either approach, both will work.

If you have several linked assets for each file (say a video file and a few HTML assets) then WCM may be the better solution. If its just a set on unrelated video files then DM may be what is required.

Re: Hosting video files (flv)

joelhulen — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:43:11 GMT

Hello, I just ran across this posting about storing FLV video files in Alfresco and accessing via Liferay. We are wanting to do the exact same thing, and I was wondering if you could please tell me which streaming server you're using and if you've found a portlet for a video player or are using a 3rd party player like flowPlayer.

Sorry for bothering you, but I've been dealing with this issue for a while.

Thanks in advance,
Joel Hulen

Re: Hosting video files (flv)

stevereiner — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:12:22 GMT

FlexSpaces has a component/view that can play videos stored in Alfresco. Its available from its "Play Video" context menu. It uses the Flex mx:VideoDisplay which supports progressive download over HTTP. This control also supports streaming from the Flash Media Server.

FlexSpaces (or components from it) can run in Liferay portlets
http://integratedsemantics.org/2008/11/30/liferay-flexspaces-alfresco/

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

Re: Hosting video files (flv)

subwiz — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:53:39 GMT

Hello, I just ran across this posting about storing FLV video files in Alfresco and accessing via Liferay. We are wanting to do the exact same thing, and I was wondering if you could please tell me which streaming server you're using and if you've found a portlet for a video player or are using a 3rd party player like flowPlayer.

We are not using any streaming server. For displaying the video in Liferay, we have developed a custom portlet using Flow Player.

Re: Hosting video files (flv)

joelhulen — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:06:34 GMT

We decided to use flowPlayer in a custom portlet as well. How did you manage to handle encoding the video uri's and including the metadata if you don't mind me asking? Also, are you using pseudostreaming? If so, on which web server are you running?

Re: Hosting video files (flv)

subwiz — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:48:25 GMT

We decided to use flowPlayer in a custom portlet as well. How did you manage to handle encoding the video uri's and including the metadata if you don't mind me asking?

My portlet (JSR-286 compatible, with Liferay specific configuration for making it Instanciable) is available here:

http://code.google.com/p/java-portlets/

Click on the preferences to configure the portlet.

…are you using pseudostreaming? If so, on which web server are you running?

We are not using pseudostreaming. We are using standard Apache 2 webserver.