Share media on your own network
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MediaGoblin lets users share movies, audio files, and other documents off the beaten track of popular platforms. In this article, we show admins how to integrate the application into a local network and examine whether it is a good replacement for YouTube, Flickr, and SoundCloud.
Internet users today share movies on YouTube, photos on Flickr, and sound material on SoundCloud. The services are mainly hosted by US corporations. If you upload movies and photos to the platforms, you thus lose control over them. Data protection laws in other countries do not apply here, which is why many local companies prefer not to use the services.
GNU MediaGoblin [1] seeks to provide a remedy. In the style of YouTube and Flickr, the web application hosts movies, images, and other media files; it can be run on its own server and is thus useful as a media platform for the intranet. Additionally, if you want to build a movie and media archive, the web application can also help you do so.
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MediaGoblin works like a wiki for media: Users rely on a form to upload movies, audio files, and other media. They can then add metadata, such as descriptions, key words, or licensing information. Other users can view or play the files directly in the browser and add comments. MediaGoblin supports downloading of movies and audio files in multiple file formats; the web application automatically transcodes the media files in the background.
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