Video documents

This page is in development and will eventually contain information about supporting Video documents in EPrints.

Related Pages

• https://wiki.eprints.org/w/How_to_customise_thumbnails
• https://wiki.eprints.org/w/API:EPrints/Plugin/Convert/Thumbnails
• https://wiki.eprints.org/w/API:bin/epadmin#redo_mime_type
• https://wiki.eprints.org/w/API:bin/epadmin#redo_thumbnails

Video Players

Depositors can upload video documents. Since EPrints 3.3, there is a lightbox/flowplayer in EPrints, under /lib/static/. However, EPrints does not embed any video player as a "preview" thumbnail or on the abstract page. To generate a video player, the Kultur plugin (http://files.eprints.org/773/) is required.

Server Settings

The following file should contain a path to ffmpeg and ffprobe:

   /opt/eprints3/lib/syscfg.d/executables.pl

ffmpeg should be installed on the server.

Video Codecs

Are there particular codecs/containers required for the streaming/seeking to work (H264 in MP4 container)? EPrints performs the following tasks when generating "thumbnails" for videos:

• generate an image thumbnail
• transcode video to ogg container

Video Document Integration

Should the video player be integrated as a document "preview" or as a part of the eprint_render?