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MediaGoblin 0.8.0 "A Gallery of Fine Creatures" Released

Posted by timothy on from the is-the-plural-of-creatures-"mess"? dept.

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.

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  1. What is MediaGoblin? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

    1. Re:What is MediaGoblin? by slaker · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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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    2. Re:What is MediaGoblin? by Culture20 · · Score: 2

      It's a gallery of fine creatures, obviously.

  2. Media What? by westlake · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Media What? by FilmedInNoir · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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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  3. Clear as mud, that by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 2

    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 for doing what the editors apparently could not (be arsed to do).

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  4. Eh? What? Huh? by CitizenJohnJohn · · Score: 2

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