The name is something very important, names transmit primary idea of the object, is like the index save on our minds linking to something. choosing the right name for the project can make the diferense when there are lots of thing around...

So Matheus (Bigodines) told me that we can change or edit the name of the project until 26 of April, and my mind are very open to changes. JMultimedia sounds fine but maybe with the help of Joomla community we can find a better name to define this project.

You are invited to contribute with this project, all your suggestions or critics are welcome:

Last year I has introduced to Joomla by one teacher from my college, I already was an Open Source enthusiastic, which make me even more curious and exited about Joomla features. Ive stated studding how it works, and developing some small sites just for fun and created denVideo to enable to add videos and games into they, then I got the job to develop one of my college sites and some specific extensions for it.
This year I've published denVideo and got very happy with the community feedback, when the SoC came I couldn't believe that i would have the opportunity to join Joomla among so many great projects... Wow, I'm in!

Now lets dive into codes,
JMultimedia, the "EXTREMAL MEDIA PORTAL SOLUTION" for joomla! its main goal is to simplify the creation of videoblogs and Streaming sites like youtube. JMultimedia uses DenVideo plugin to automatically detect and display videos from many Steaming sites, in many media formats, and can be easily extended and customized.

Users can add videos from any supported server (like brightcove) just by inserting videos the URL, JMultimedia automatically detects in runtime how to display it. Files from supported types can also be uploaded to the local server (using Joomla upload function), and they will be stored on the default media folder. Administrators can also select what media formats and streaming server will be accepted and who can comment and add and view videos.

JMultimedia Features Are:

• Administrators can:
  • Create, Edit and Remove media categories.
  • Customize user permissions for each media category.
  • Add, Edit and Remove new media items.
  • Read reviews and remove the unwanted ones.

• Users can:
  • List media items: from selected category, top rated, newest...
  • Search for media items.
  • Use media: watch videos, listen musics, play games...
  • Add media from remote streaming servers ( by URL ).
  • Upload medias from his local pc.
  • Review items: comments and rating.

• Supports everything that denVideo supports:
  • Streaming sites: youtube.com, video.google.com, video.yahoo, brightcove.tv.
  • Media types: .SWF (Flash Applications), .FLV (Flash Videos), .CLASS (Java Applet), .MOV & .MP4 (Quicktime), .RM & .RAM (Real Media).

Marcelo Eden is an Information Systems student at the Faculdade Integrada do Recife (FIR) in Recife, Brazil. Marcelo loves to code and has experience with MySQL, Java, PHP, JavaScript, xHTML and CSS. Marcelo has built several Joomla! Web sites including the Web site for his college. He is a long time Joomla! community member and has contributed several popular FOSS extensions for Joomla!, including denVideo.

Mentor: Matheus Teixeira Mendes (aka, bigodines) is from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and a long-time community member since Mambo in 2003. He has served as forum moderator, translation coordinator for pt-BR, and member of the Quality and Testing team. Currently, Matheus works with Java and researches distributed computing. Prior to Java, Matheus was a professional PHP developer and involved with building both the Porsche Brasil and United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) Joomla! Web sites.

This project idea is to develop a group of EXTENSIONS that can make possible to create with Joomla! full featured Video Streaming Sites like tivipro.tv. Even better because we can display video from many streaming servers like youtube.com, brightcove.tv, videos.yahoo ... And integrate this multimedia power with the Joomla! management features.