django-video: A long overdue update

by Andre Engelbrecht

django-video

When I first developed django-video, it was mainly for personal use, and to plug a gap in django re-usable apps (there was no open and freely available video apps for django at the time). Shortly after I released my app, I discovered that another app exists by the name of django-videologue.

I have not tested django-videologue because the app I created suited my personal needs perfectly. It is my understanding hower that django-videologue was created by the django-photologue author (please correct me if I'm wrong) and if so, I believe that django-videologue will be an excellent application.

Responses

I did however receive quite a response about django-video, and I keep getting emails to this day. Most of them are asking me if I'm planning to do any updates soon, and if the projects is even still in development. Usually my answer to this question is to point the individual to django-videologue, and state that this looks like a very strong alternative, since django-video is on hold for the moment.

My biggest reason for halting work on djang-video, was lack of time. I started working on other projects, and since django-video was a low priority project to begin with, it drifted to the bottom of the stack. I'm pleased to anounce that it has now resurfaced.

django-video Roadmap

So I finally had a chance today to think about the future of django-video, and what I'd like to accomplish with the application. Here follows a couple of features that I plan to include in the next release, which will be tagged v0.2.

• Support for HTML5 video
• Support for embeded videos from sites such as Youtube
• Support for Flash Video as in the previous version
• Lots of Refactoring of code
• Support for admin actions, such as an action to encode videos via the admin.
• Basic Publishing information
• Template tags to simplify embedding videos etc.

I have already started working on these changes and you can view or test them on the development branch. Please feel free to test and submit bugs on github.

For anyone interested, django-video is hosted on github.

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