MediaGoblin 0.8.0 "A Gallery of Fine Creatures" Released

paroneayea writes: GNU MediaGoblin has released version 0.8.0 dubbed "A Gallery of Fine Creatures". This release includes a number of improvements including an upgrade to GStreamer 1.0, improved video thumbnailing, and preliminary Python 3 support. Additionally, an improved Social API support making use of the Pump API means that existing pump.io clients like Pumpa and Dianara are now compatible with MediaGoblin. This coincides with work underway by MediaGoblin developers working with the W3C Social Working Group to build a general federation standard, of which a draft submission to the group is already in progress.

What is MediaGoblin?

[Anonymous Coward]

MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.

Because I don't know what every project actually is and why drive unneeded traffic to their page

Easier than having editors

[Overzeetop]

Timothy is actually just a bot.

Re:What is MediaGoblin?

[slaker]

It's a hosting framework for media., so if you want to throw some videos or photos online and for some reason you don't like Youtube/Flickr/Tumblr/Zombo AND you have the disk space, CPU cycles and bandwidth, you can put up a MediaGoblin site and manage everything yourself.

It's a thing that should probably exist, but it's hard for me to get excited about it, either.

I more or less posted this exact same comment the last time we had a thread about Mediagoblin.

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[CronoCloud]

So it's only useful for those guys who have a sysadmin job, who have a server rack of their own in their basement and a business grade internet connection who want to host their cat pictures and videos on their own machine?

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[Dr.Dubious DDQ]

It seems (still) potentially very useful, and the federation stuff seems like a bigger deal that it might initially sound like (instead of needing one person or organization to provide a huge server and mirrors for a big collection of media and user accounts, smaller groups and individuals can "federate" more manageably-sized small server instances that they each run). Also, native pump.io (which is more or less a very extensible "microblogging" standard if I understand right) support ought to mean you won'

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[Culture20]

It's a gallery of fine creatures, obviously.

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[TechyImmigrant]

Dafuq does the summary actually say?

I think it's a transcript of a D&D game.

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[Minwee]

Dafuq does the summary actually say?

I think it's a transcript of a D&D game.

Then where are the Cheetos?

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[TechyImmigrant]

Dafuq does the summary actually say?

I think it's a transcript of a D&D game.

Then where are the Cheetos?

Cheetos2.0 has been superseded.

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[cptnapalm]

A gazebo? ...

What's it doing?

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[BenJeremy]

I'm glad I'm not the only person do wonder about that.

Does it hook up to GooglyMoogly and the Black Bart Inference Engine? Can it plug-and-play with ZeekZek? What about compatibility with older ZanyBunch scripts?

Media What?

[westlake]

I feel as if I have dug three levels down into the MediaGoblin site and still without a clue as to what this thing is all about.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I feel as if I have dug three levels down into the MediaGoblin site and still without a clue as to what this thing is all about.

From the very top of the page at the first link:

"MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc."

Basically, it's a framework that you can throw up on a server and easily distribute pictures/video/audio.

Re:Media What?

[FilmedInNoir]

Ok, so I want to build my own Vimeo or Spotify I could use this to handle the media delivery portion (e,g, showing a video to a user) while I focus on the shopping cart/authentication methods/getting paid.

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[tehcyder]

I got a security blocking message trying to download it at work, which is not encouraging. Is it chock full of dodgy flash adverts or something?

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[account_deleted]

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[TechyImmigrant]

All I see are Debbie Downers posting...
Can someone at least be happy for the mediagoblin people?

I think it's pretty awesome.

After reading 30 comments and finally getting an idea of what it is, yes it seems nice. I am happy for them an appreciate their work. I could host videos on our (very small) company website and they might not behave horribly. This is something I would do to bypass youtube for instructional videos.

I still don't get what's decentralized though. What does that mean?

Clear as mud, that

[wonkey_monkey]

GNU MediaGoblin has released version 0.8.0 dubbed "A Gallery of Fine Creatures".

Of course. Heaven forbid anyone should be able to glean even the faintest of hint of what it does from the name or version codename.

Thanks to slaker [slashdot.org] for doing what the editors apparently could not (be arsed to do).

Eh? What? Huh?

[CitizenJohnJohn]

I only came here to snark about the incomprehensible summary, but I see everyone else has beaten me to it.