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diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst index 6ffe0974..f9c9285d 100644 --- a/docs/source/index.rst +++ b/docs/source/index.rst @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Table of Contents: deploying production-deployments configuration + media-types help theming codebase diff --git a/docs/source/media-types.rst b/docs/source/media-types.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..809efe07 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/source/media-types.rst @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +.. _media-types-chapter: + +==================== +Enabling Media Types +==================== + +In the future, there will be all sorts of media types you can enable, +but in the meanwhile there's only one additional media type: video. + +First, you should probably read ":doc:`configuration`" to make sure +you know how to modify the mediagoblin config file. + +Video +===== + +To enable video, first install gstreamer and the python-gstreamer +bindings (as well as whatever gstremaer extensions you want, +good/bad/ugly). On Debianoid systems: + + sudo apt-get install python-gst0.10 + +Next, modify (and possibly copy over from mediagoblin.ini) your +mediagoblin_local.ini. Uncomment this line in the [mediagoblin] +section: + + media_types = mediagoblin.media_types.image, mediagoblin.media_types.video + +Now you should be able to submit videos, and mediagoblin should +transcode them. + +Note that you almost certainly want to separate Celery from the normal +paste process or your users will probably find that their connections +time out as the video transcodes. To set that up, check out the +":doc:`production-deployments`" section of this manual. |