Managing multimedia content and podcasts with Plone
With the rise of podcasting and sharing
multimedia content online, there is a growing need for tools that help
content producers publish multimedia to their website. We will discuss
the Plone4Artists suite of products which streamline the process of
publishing audio, videos and images on your Plone site. After
installing the Plone4Artists add-ons, Plone will be able to extract the
metadata from uploaded audio, video and image files, make this metadata
editable and searchable and playback the audio/video files in the
browser. Using RSS syndication, you can also make collections of this
multimedia content available to your users as a
podcast/vodcast/photocast feed. We will also discuss some of the
challenges of handling large files in Plone, including tools to improve
the uploading process and how to store large files outside of the ZODB
and instead on the file system.