Asia Pacific

Maori Television has played an important role in preserving Maori language

June 17, 2011
Funded by the New Zealand Government, the station started broadcasting on 28 March 2004 from a base in Newmarket.

For a sample of their cultural programming, go to:

http://www.maoritelevision.com/Default.aspx?tabid=611&pid=9133

Developing Non-Corporate Video Publishing

April 20, 2009
The "Transmission Group" has been meeting over several years to develop open source publishing.

A meeting in Wiltshire UK Spring 2009 - the idea was to meet up and get some documentation and development done on using Drupal with Video. There were different sides of the coin. A lot of work was done on the Usability side of the user experience, and a lot of work on the following development elements. 12 people attended including the Dog

* Importing Media rich feeds with file enclosures * Subtitles displayed over video using JW player

* Grabbing non-corporate Flv files from URLs via the Embedded Media Field

* Transcoding with Media Mover and ffmpeg