About

	ATVideo is a product to handle the uploading and playback of video files 
	within a Plone site. When you upload the video file, ATVideo detects the 
	file format you are uploading and chooses the appropriate playback 
	(Windows Media, Real, Quicktime).

Background
   
    This product was developed during the "Plone multimedia sprint":http://plone.org/events/sprints/multimedia
    and is being used and developed by the Plone4Artists project (http://plone4artists.org), 
    and other organizations such as "Liberty Bloom":http://www.libertybloom.com
    and "Engage Media":http://www.engagemedia.org. 
   
    You are welcome to join in the development and report bugs as you find them. 
    See the mailing list and bug reporting section at the bottom of this README.

	ATVideo is included with the "PloneMultimedia":http://plone.org/products/plonemultimedia 
	package along with ATAudio, ATPhoto and PloneJUpload.
	
Usage

    Add a new video item to your Plone site by choosing it in the "Add new
    item" menu. You can then upload a video file (Quicktime .mov, Windows .wmv
    or Real .rm)  which is then associated with this object. 
    
	Since video files can get quite large, they are stored on the file system 
	(using ExternalStorage) so that they do not cause ZODB bloat. 
	
	Since the files are accessible from the file system, one can use Apache 
	or some other tool to serve up the video thereby freeing up more 
	memory/CPU for Zope.
        
    For instructions on how to set up WebDAV to facilitate drag-n-drop addition 
    of video files to your Plone site, please see:
    http://plone.org/products/atvideo/documentation/how-to/upload-video-files-using-webdav 
    
    You can also use the "PloneJUpload":http://plone.org/products/plonejupload
    product to bulk upload video files using only your browser.
    
Install

    Simply place the ATVideo folder in your Zope's Products dir, restart and
    install in your Plone site using the 'portal_quickinstaller' tool in the
    ZMI, or go to 'Plone Setup' -> 'Add/Remove Products'.

Dependencies

    ATVideo depends on ATMediaFile which depends on "ExternalStorage":http://plone.org/products/externalstorage. 
    If you got ATVideo using the PloneMultimediaBundle, then you already have these
    two products.

Documentation

    See the "online documentation":http://plone.org/products/atvideo/documentation/

Bug reporting

    Please report any bugs you find and/or feature requests to the 
    "issue tracker":http://plone.org/products/atvideo/issues

Mailing list

    You can also subscribe to the ATVideo mailing list if you'd like
    to participate in the discussions. Simply send a message to
    atvideo (at) plone4artists.org with "subscribe" as the subject.
    
    For a history of past discussions, you can view the 
    "ATVideo mailing list archives":http://lists.plone4artists.org/atvideo

Maintainer

    Nate Aune (natea AT jazkarta DOT com) natea on #plone or #plone4artists 
    IRC channels on Freenode (irc.freenode.net)
    
    See 'AUTHORS.txt' for a list of other contributors



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ATVideo 'engage' branch

Maintainers - engagemedia.org developers
Contact us at engagemedia-webdev@lists.engagemedia.org

Andy Nicholson
andy@engagemedia.org
