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Customer
France Telecom is the main telecommunications company in France, the third largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world.
It currently employs about 191,000 people (half outside of France) and has nearly 159 million customers worldwide (2007).
Business Case
France Telecom provides fixed-line and wireless voice and data services, as well as cable TV and corporate and wholesale telecom services to over 100 million customers worldwide. Adding video to http://orange.com site was cumbersome. They needed a tool to simplify the process of adding new video content to their web site and allow customers to add videos. This required the ability to approve video, edit or enhance it.
Solution
SolveITLabs has designed and implemented a composite system that allows Orange’s customers create their own video clips and publish it through social networks such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. It consists of a video mixer tool for Orange's customers and an admin tool for France Telecom staff to help manage and upload video files to the web site.
There were 6 main areas of focus:
- Easy Admin
SolveITLabs developed a video admin tool to allow administrators at France Telecom to bulk upload videos from various source files. All files, regardless of the source are then automatically converted to a common format.
- Video Preview
The administrator can easily preview mixes and edit video mixes, add names to groups of video and organize the video by topic.
- Manage User-Generated Video
The administrator may approve or reject user-generated video mixes for publishing on the website; edit or delete mixes from the system.
- Add Effects and Transitions
Also added is the ability to easily add effects and transitions to video presentations.
- Audio Editing and Overlay
Video Editing Tool provides an option to preview presentations and record an audio overlay in real time.
- Download and Share Video Mixes
The user can download a video mix on his local machine or share it with his friends via YouTube, FaceBook, and Twitter
Another feature of the tool is to help encourage user-generated content. Customers can now submit their own videos to
the company. Then the company can approve or not approve the video to go live on the http://orange.com site.
Customers can also add audio to their video presentation.
The solution is compatible with Amazon EC2 and Advection.NET hosting infrastructure.
Tools and Technologies:
- Movie Masher Server;
- Movie Masher's flash applets that provide front-end tools for common video editing;
- Red5 media server;
- Nellymoser codec, ffmpeg video converter;
- Amazon EC2 i S3;
- Apache web server;
- OpenSSL;
- PHP 5 with the following modules:
PEAR, curl, symphony, PDO
PEAR modules: Archive/Tar, HTTP/Request, Log;
- MySQL 4;
- Java, apache Ant
