Jentla V Features

Jentla Video is an advanced self-installable video platform. It is closely integration with the Joomla CMS. Jentla V is ideally suited for organisations which do not want to lose control of their video assets by using a fully SaaS solution.

Jentla V fully manages video upload, asset repository, video delivery and player. It can be installed either for internet or intranet use.

General Features

• Multiple upload sections
• Multiple thumbnail displays per page
• Separate information definition and usage
• Roles to separate site-wide configuration from less privileged configuration ( to be completed)
• Optional approval process for uploaded videos prior to display
• Drop downs or standard display text fields can be customised
• Default information
• Upload size limit
• Each field can be mandatory
• Variable order of input fields

Per Video Section features

Video Metadata

System generated metadata:

• Original size
• Original format
• Original file name
• Quality
• Rating (to be completed)
• Author (authenticated login name)
• Date/time uploaded
• Views today, this week, this month, total views
• Any information that can be gleaned from the response to the login page through a regular expression
• Resolutions of additional multi resolution versions
• Advanced formatting settings

• Text
• Numeric
• Date (ability to search on a range)
• Dropdown
• Hidden
• Fixed
• Username
• Password
• Display Only (for explanations or terms and conditions)
• Checkbox (for yes/no answers of for “I agree” to conditions)

Upload

Client side upload tool

• Client side upload
• Client side compression
• Client side metadata collection
• Advertising during upload
• Authentication option for upload
• Background colours – alphas top/bottom
• Background images
• Sample !SMACK! shown in admin tool while configuring
• Advertising options
• Logo options
• After exceeding limit, videos can continue to upload and can be included when others deleted or limit raised.
• Batch upload (and compression) using spreadsheet for metadata input

Uploader Templating

• Background colours – alphas top/bottom
• Background images
• Sample !SMACK! shown in admin tool while configuring
• Advertising options
• Logo options

Advanced Upload Features

• After exceeding limit, videos can continue to upload and can be included when others deleted or limit raised.
• Batch upload (and compression) using spreadsheet for metadata input

Player

Player Features

• Small movie player footprint
• Small or full screen movie (variable size to be completed)
• Variable Size player option
• Optional additional videos of pre-set resolutions created automatically at server-side to supply multiple download options
• Movie player can optionally determine which resolution video to play depending on specified criteria of bandwidth, specified wait time, of percentage wait of the video duration.
• Movie player calculates when to start the video to avoid (if conditions remain consistent) a stutter free screening.
• Integration with Adobe and Red5 RTMP players for streaming support

Player types

Progressive download

• Optional additional videos of pre-set resolutions created automatically at server-side to supply multiple download options
• Movie player can optionally determine which resolution video to play depending on specified criteria of bandwidth, specified wait time, of percentage wait of the video duration.
• Movie player calculates when to start the video to avoid (if conditions remain consistent) a stutter free screening.

Streaming

• Integration with Adobe Flash Media Server and Red5 RTMP players for streaming support

Player Display

Display layout

• Background colours – alphas top/bottom
• Background images
• Information positioned around thumbnail
• Each field separately formatted for each display (colour/font/size/justification/bold/italics/underline/label included or not)
• Variable thumbnail size
• Variable number of videos per page (scrollable on same page)
• Optional page navigation bars
• Optional search facility (including advanced search)
• Specify which fields are searchable
• Sample display shown in admin tool while configuring
• Initial display search and sort options
• Variable order of display fields
• Video map comprising all videos, sorted by variable category, including variable exposed fields, launching video player
• Video Map can be included in site
• All videos, sorted by variable category, including variable exposed fields, launching video player, in default site colours

SEO

• Video map comprising all videos, sorted by variable category, including variable exposed fields, launching video player

Video Map

• Video Map can be included in site
• All videos, sorted by variable category, including variable exposed fields, launching video player, in default site colours

Video Formatting

Video formats

Currently, there are over 50 supported video formats from h261 to h264 and mpeg1 to mpeg4

Advanced formatting settings:

• Format – H.263 or H.264 - the video to be displayed
• Aspect  - dropdown of 4:3, 16:9, 2.35:1 or 2.4:1 - aspect ratio of the input or output
• Size  - default 320 x 240 – resolution of output
• Framerate –frames per second
• Extension – the extension/format of the output
• Sample rate - dropdown of 11025 or 22050
• High quality audio bit rate – drop down of 16kb/s or 8kb/s – audio bit rate when quality is above 50%
• High quality audio bit rate – drop down of 16kb/s or 8kb/s – audio bit rate when quality is above 50%
• Audio channels – stereo or mono
• Advanced – free text options – there are hundreds to choose from – too many to list
• None in use
• Response code(s)
• Success phrase (can include response code)
• Success regular expression (can include response code)
• LDAP

Authentication types

• None in use
• Response code(s)
• Success phrase (can include response code)
• Success regular expression (can include response code)
• LDAP

Additional features

Smart Installer

• The installer automatically detects server characteristics and automatically installs the application to a variety of server hosting types.
• Auto-install of Red5 open source streaming server
• Based on SQLite, a highly optimized database included in the PHP language. SQLite is up to six times faster than MySQL.
• Additional video (not for display) advanced settings allow a wider range of settings available in other formats
• License locked to set number of available videos playable from repository
• Code protected either by Zend or Ioncube encryption
• Log of configuration changes
• Log of attempted uploads

Repository

• Based on SQLite, a highly optimized database included in the PHP language. SQLite is up to six times faster than MySQL.
• Additional video (not for display) advanced settings allow a wider range of settings available in other formats

Licensing

• License locked to set number of available videos playable from repository
• Code protected either by Zend or Ioncube encryption

Auditing

• Log of configuration changes
• Log of attempted uploads

Upload

• Server side upload

Cloud based Repository

• Use of Cloudfront repository
• Cloudfront use reports

CMS Integration

• Attaching videos to articles
• Selection of videos for attachment using metadata filters