Video in Atom

[MATIAS VALDES]

Hellow!!!!

I finally managed to understand how to install Atom and make it work. :)!!

But I want to use it for this project where they to want to build a video archive.

Is it possible to keep videos in Atom? or is there a plug-in or something?

Thank you

[pieters...@gmail.com]

Good day

 

There is no extra plugin available.

 

Groete / Regards

Johan Pieterse

082 337-1406

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[Daniel Lovegrove]

Hi Matias,

Here's an example of what a video looks like in AtoM from my own organization's public archive:

https://archives.nctr.ca/MDBCNE101

Like Johan mentioned, there's no extra plugin needed for video, AtoM supports video natively.

We've imported a lot of videos into our AtoM instances, and there is one catch that I want to mention. When you upload a video to AtoM, it creates a reference copy of your video. To make that copy, it re-encodes the video with FFmpeg which can take a long time, especially when the video file is large. If you're importing a batch of hundreds of videos, you might be waiting hundreds of hours for the import to complete. You can skip this feature by passing the --skip-derivatives option when doing a CSV import in AtoM and the reference copy won't be created. The issue with skipping derivatives is that users won't see the video player in AtoM, they will only see a link to download the video. You can always re-generate derivatives later on, as well.

If you do want reference derivatives and don't want to wait ages for FFmpeg to re-encode your videos, you can upload videos already in the correct format. In that case, AtoM will simply take a copy of the video for the reference copy instead of re-encoding it. These are the parameters a reference video has. If you upload video files with these criteria, AtoM will skip re-encoding them with FFmpeg:

• File type: MP4
• Video codec: h264
• Pixel format: yuv420p
• Audio codec: aac
• Audio sample rate: 44.1 kHz

-Daniel