Add a powerful media platform to your website
MediaCore delivers an exceptional media experience to any site that depends on delivering video or audio to its users. It can run alongside any other CMS, and is meant to exclusively handle media. You can use MediaCore to organize video and podcasts, engage users, and deliver content to both desktop and mobile devices.
For organizations with video located on the social web and on its own servers it can centralize everything onto one common brand-ready platform.
This page provides information on the:
Explore Media
The explore section is designed to give users an overview of the content inside MediaCore. Featured videos, most recently added, and most popular media are all displayed.
Podcasting
MediaCore has state of the art podcasting support (optional). It will handle every aspect of running your podcast, including automatic publication to iTunes or Feedburner via RSS.
Categories
MediaCore features categories that can be further organized into subcategories, making media management easier. This allows users to find relevant videos and podcasts quicker.
Search
MediaCore has a powerful search engine built in, allowing users to find media quickly. The search results can be sorted by most popular, most recently added or featured media.
User Uploads
Any user can easily upload their own files or share links to sites such as YouTube or Vimeo. Administrators can moderate all uploaded content through the control panel.
Control Panel
The easy to use control panel provides the administrator with the ability to moderate every aspect of MediaCore, including the review of all videos and comments before publication.
Statistics
MediaCore tracks the number of likes, views and comments for each video and podcast. It also offers full support for Google Analytics, which provides a more comprehensive report.
Accessibility
MediaCore supports closed captioning for the hard of hearing and audio descriptions for the visually impaired. The interface design allows for ease of tabbing through MediaCore.
Media Storage
Media files can be stored on YouTube, Vimeo, Google Video, Amazon S3 or on any host of your choice. This allows you to choose the most cost-effective way to manage your content.
HTML5 and Mobile
MediaCore has integrated the leading HTML5 video players to deliver exceptional mobile device support. Play videos on the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.
Flash Players
FlowPlayer and JWPlayer are the leading Flash based media players. MediaCore allows an administrator to choose which player they prefer to have display their media.
Integrated Players
Create a Podcast
An administrator can create an unlimited number of podcast series in MediaCore. Add titles, descriptions, iTunes categories, album art, and MediaCore handles display.
Video or Audio
Podcast episodes can be created in either video or audio formats. Playback is supported in Flash and HTML5, or via direct download in iTunes and Feedburner.
iTunes Support
Add your podcast to iTunes and then add the Apple iTunes link to MediaCore. MediaCore will automatically generate the RSS iTunes needs to pull media directly from your site.
RSS & Feedburner
MediaCore generates RSS for each podcast series added. Individual episodes of a podcast are added to the RSS feed. MediaCore also supports FeedBurner integration.
Browse Podcasts
Users can browse podcasts and podcast episodes, easily subscribe to them via iTunes, or grab the RSS for a podcast and import it into their favorite RSS reader.
Add Episodes
An administrator can add unlimited episodes to a single podcast series. Episodes are added automatically to the RSS feed, and sorted by publish date.
Browse Episodes
Users can browse all episodes listed under a particular podcast. On clicking an episode the can either watch the episode in their browser, or download it to their computer.
WordPress Blogs
MediaCore has been used on production websites using WordPress as their platform of choice. A plugin is available to import MediaCore posts into WordPress posts.
Joomla CMS Platform
Joomla now has a plugin that allows any MediaCore post to be imported into a Joomla page.
Purchase Plugins
Mobile Devices
MediaCore plays nicely with mobile devices, as it is written in XHTML strict and fully supports HTML5 video. The CSS is configurable for a customized mobile browsing experience.
Web Standards
Semantically sensible, W3C valid markup is all that you will find in MediaCore. The entire platform has been written to be as standards friendly as possible.
SEO and Placement
Search Engine Optimization is important for any site, and MediaCore makes it easy by autogenerating meta keywords and descriptions based on page content.
Supported Browsers
Pylons & Python
MediaCore has been developed using Pylons, which is a Python web framework. Python is one of the most expressive, flexible, and easily readable programming languages. More
Mootools
MooTools is a super lightweight Javascript framework that was chosen for its speed and minimalism. All of the AJAX effects and interaction are built using this framework.
Tiny WYSIWYG Editor
For any form fields in MediaCore, admins have the option of enabiling the Tiny MCE Editor. This light-weight editor is also used in popular products like WordPress.
MYSQL & SQLAlchemy
SQLAlchemy provides a beautifully integrated, but still very flexible, way to join Python and any number of Database backends. We are currently using it with MYSQL 5.