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The Digital Fringe Festival (24 September - 12 October) is a celebration of Digital Art from around the world. Anyone is able to upload a video, audio or still Digital Art work and have it screened on a huge number of screens around Melbourne, Australia and various other locations worldwide.

They used OpenPackage Video to replace a custom media handler to streamline the process of people submitting video works.

The major new feature of OpenPackage Video 5.x-3.8 is integration with Feed Element Mapper (feedapi_mapper).

The development of this functionality was sponsored by Hudson Street Media using our bounty system:
http://openpackage.biz/bounty/15
http://openpackage.biz/bounty/14

Feed Element Mapper is an add-on module for FeedAPI that maps a feed's elements such as tags or (in this case) videos to taxonomy or CCK fields on your site.

This enables your site to aggregate videos from other sites.

I have set up various video feeds on our site as a demonstration. Click on the 'Feed item' links to view the videos.

We've put together a showcase of sites that use OpenPackage Video: http://openpackage.biz/showcase

If you would like your site to be added to this page, please contact us: http://openpackage.biz/contact

OpenPackage Media has developed a new collaborative funding technique: Bounty.

Bounty works like this: Participants make a pledge to pay a certain amount of the bounty. Once the bounty has been fully pledged, they are billed for 50%. Once we have completed the bounty task, participants are billed for the balance.

Read the orientation guide for full details.

With the latest snapshot of 5.x-3.x, it is now possible to import videos using the node_import module.

This functionality was sponsored by The Internet Bird Collection.

We have set up some bounties to help finance the development of our video module. Each feature has an amount that must be raised before it will be implemented. We use the ChipIn system to manage donations. If you would like to contribute to the development of one of the features you can donate through its ChipIn widget.

Changes since 5.x-2.1:

• fix sql error in _op_video_delete_file()
• fix namespace conflict with upload module causing 'Error Uploading Video' error.

http://drupal.org/node/169850

Flash Player 9 Update 3 will include support for the H.264 video codec. H.264 has dramatically reduced bandwidth requirements compared with FLV.