Ourvideo CMS

Our Video is an accessible “Toolkit” through which communities can produce their own video and multi media content, at low cost and distribute it across the internet.

This project brings together community media and recent digital technology developments in a project that is explicitly designed to systematise the approach and make it available as a generic toolkit.

Ourvideo CMS is a Media content management system running on MySql and php. It is aimed at community and low budget groups and can help them achieve their aims at a lower cost in the following ways. There are minimal changes to the standard server environment to help groups that don't have access to a high level server.

This CMS encourages users to download Videos directly to their hard drive and caters to groups who wish their work to be viewed full screen. This helps replace the need for costly distribution of Video material on DVD and VHS.

It uses metafiles to stream media files without the need for expensive server software.

It creates rss feeds including media rss feeds embedding video and other media content in such feeds. This is envisaged to be the most active area of deleopment.

Ourvideo CMS is written in basic php and is suitable as a training tool for teaching.

It is designed to create multiple subchannels of sites which share content but give the different groups total control over what appears on their site with out any branding. This is really desirable for community groups.