Thursday, March 4, 2010

Re: Open Source Media Gallery Software

Hi Tom -
this looks great. we are currently looking for solutions. what kind of
hardware do you have running this server?
page


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Thomas Phelan <tphelan@peddie.org> wrote:

> We have tried a lot of different things to enable faculty, coaches, etc. to
> post video and other media but have never been satisfied with the results.
> We've tried everything from the very KISS method of simply providing a
> network share, to setting up RSS feeds which tied into Windows media
> services, to the new Google Apps video app, not to mention a bunch of
> different services.
>
> Every method we have tried has had significant drawbacks until we
> discovered
> Gallery Server Pro <http://www.galleryserverpro.com/>. Gallery Server is
> an
> Open Source ASP/C#/SQL Server web application that can tie into Active
> Director for authentication.
>
> If you are struggling to find a way to allow users to post their own
> content
> without your help regardless of format, take a look at this product. Some
> benefits off the top of my head...
>
> - Currently it supports 138 media types.
> - Uploading and managing content couldn't be easier.
> - Admin has a lot of control regarding what functionality to allow. You
> can do everything from pretty much limiting to only viewing or you can
> provide a way to download an entire gallery (e.g. of photos) as a single
> zip
> file.
> - Supports multiple players.
> - Store media in a folder structure that matches the online gallery
> making backup and management very simple. You can also bypass the web
> site
> and just dump a bunch of files directly into one of the gallery folders
> and
> then do a sync to publish.
> - Allows linking from other sources (e.g. YouTube) directly next to your
> own content making the experience seamless for visitors.
>
> We just got our server up and running and will be piloting it for the
> remainder of the year. Feel free to take a look at
> http://mediagallery.peddie.org/. The Ivano Viola album has some sample
> video
> (Ivano found and setup the site).
>
> Tom Phelan
> Peddie School
>
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