Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Kaltura has built an open source video platform to empower online video management, creation, interaction and collaboration on any site and across sites. The platform is geared to serving both premium rich-media content and user generated content: from management and display of content to advanced interactive functionality.

With one click, any site owner can embed full interactive video capabilities: an interactive video player including an upload/import tool and a web-based video mixer. Their skinable interactive player allows you to have full control over the look and feel and allows to pick from a long list of functionality.

However, the Community Edition is still under development. It offers the full Kaltura collaborative media platform, running on your site. It enables you to host and stream the videos from your data center, behind your firewall. And it’s 100% free, and licensed under the GPL. Stay tuned.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://corp.kaltura.com/
License: GPL License

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CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs). You can use it to create demonstration videos for your web application.

CamStudio can also add high-quality, anti-aliased (no jagged edges) screen captions to your recordings in seconds and with the unique Video Annotation feature you can even personalise your videos by including a webcam movie of yourself “picture-in-picture” over your desktop. You can download and use it completely free for your personal and commercial projects.

Requirements:-
Demo: http://camstudio.org/
License: GPL License

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ToobPlayer is a lightweight FLV player component that comes in five flavors, provides a mechanism to play back YouTube videos, and can also display preview images. Nowadays, YouTube is more popular than you can imagine. A lot of people upload their videos on YouTube. It would be very useful when you would like to embed some Youtube videos on your site.

ToobPlayer is resizable with full-screen mode. It allows several video resize modes. It gives you loading status feedback. It supports mouse-wheel (Seeking/Volumn Control). And you can customize ToobPlayer easily as well.

Requirements: Adobe Extension Manager
Demo: http://emehmedovic.com/xmca/toobplayer/
License: MIT License

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Are you bored with the look of youtube videos player? The Ext.ux. YoutubePlayer is a user extension that utilizes the Youtube Chromeless API. You can embed any Youtube video into Ext native controls and place it in your application wherever you want. It’s like a mediaplayer built on top of Ext JS and the Youtube API.

Ext.ux. YoutubePlayer uses Ext native components to control the video loading/playback. It’s capable of showing the buffer status and the playback slider let’s you jump to any position in the video playback. You’ll also be able to mute/unmute the video and set the overall volume. It makes the video player looks a lot nicer.

Requirements: Ext JS Framework
Demo: http://www.siteartwork.de/youtubeplayer
License: LGPL License

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FlowPlayer is a Flash media player. You can use it on your HTML pages to play video files. “It is your personal YouTube”. It is highly customizable which upports all the features you’ll possibly need and these features can be configured the way you like. Look and feel is important to us. FlowPlayer’s skin is flexible and will smoothly melt into your site. Progressive downloading, solid streming, long play features, playlists, fullscreen mode and etc… Everything you’ll need to provide rich user experience. Flowplayer is licenced under the GPL license so it’s free too.

Requirements: Flash 9
Demo: http://flowplayer.org/
License: GPL License

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