MuraMediaPlayer Plugin Released for ColdFusion-Powered Mura CMS

Posted At : March 19, 2010 8:44 AM | Posted By : Stephen Withington
Related Categories: ColdFusion,Web Site Projects,Mura Plugins,Amazon Web Services,Mura CMS

I was finally able to finish up my MuraMediaPlayer plugin for Mura CMS. This plugin uses JW Player™, the Internet's most popular and flexible media player. It supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, MP4, MP3 and AAC). It also supports RTMP, HTTP, live streaming, a wide range of settings and more.

This plugin is available in the Mura CMS App Store under plugins. Since the primary guts of the plugin are driven by my cfMediaPlayer project hosted on RIAForge (a ColdFusion wrapper of the JW Player™), I'm posting a copy of the license here just so there's no confusion.

License

By using MuraMediaPlayer, you agree to the 'non-commercial' license found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. For corporate use or if you're planning to generate revenue from your site (e.g., by running advertisements on the page, selling anything, etc.) you will need to buy a license for JW Player™. To obtain a commercial license of the JW Player™, please visit http://longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/commercial-license/

Installation

Installing the plugin is pretty simple. I've created a brief video tutorial and also included an outline of some simple steps to follow:

Installing MuraMediaPlayer

  1. Download the plugin from the Mura CMS App Store's plugins section
  2. Note the location of the 'muramediaplayer.zip' file that you downloaded
  3. Log in to your Mura CMS Admin area
  4. Click 'Site Settings' found on the top-right portion of the screen on the yellow bar
  5. Select the 'Plugins' tab
  6. 'Browse' to the location of the 'muramediaplayer.zip' file and select it
  7. Click 'Deploy' and the 'Plugin Settings' form should appear
  8. If you want to change the 'Plugin Name,' feel free to do so
  9. You can simply leave the 'Load Priority' alone or change it to anything you want to be if you have other plugins that require loading ahead of it
  10. If you're Mura CMS install is using Amazon S3 for file storage and you've set up an Amazon CloudFront, you can enter the 'Cloud URL.' Otherwise, leave it blank.
  11. If you're Mura CMS install is using Amazon S3 for file storage, you have an Amazon CloudFront set up and you've setup a Streaming Distribution to deliver content to end users in real time, you can enter the 'Streaming URL.' Otherwise, leave it blank.
  12. Under 'Site Assignments,' select the site(s) you wish to enable the plugin to run on.
  13. Click 'Update' when finished.
  14. That's it! You're ready to create MuraMediaPlayer pages and/or use a new [mura] tag method that is now available to you.

Please visit Amazon for more information about their S3 and CloudFront services.

Usage/Instructions

Detailed instructions for using the plugin are available at http://www.getmura.com/index.cfm/app-store/plugins/muramediaplayer/documentation/. In addition, instructions can be found after you install the plugin simply by logging into the Admin area, click 'Plugins' (or go to 'Site Settings', then select 'Plugins' tab), then click the 'MuraMediaPlayer' link.

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Looks fantastic and very flexible - I just launched a new Mura site, http://www.melsa.org They expressed an interest in some of these features, so I'll likely be looking into this plugin soon!
# Posted By Nathan Miller | 3/19/10 9:08 AM
@Nathan,
Thanks man. Nice job on the new site too!
# Posted By Steve Withington | 3/19/10 9:31 AM
Not sure if you're watching the app store comments...

http://www.getmura.com/index.cfm/app-store/plugins...
# Posted By Nathan Miller | 3/20/10 10:13 AM
@Nathan,
This plugin requires version 5.2+ Sorry man. Is it possible to upgrade your install?
# Posted By Steve Withington | 3/20/10 11:22 AM
Steve - you're the man! Very useful, thanks so much for sharing! Jonas
PS: Your installation video plays great in Safari and Firefox, but in my Chrome Browser (5.0.307.11 beta for Mac OS X) there's only audio at the moment...?
# Posted By Jonas Eriksson | 3/25/10 8:57 AM
@Jonas,
The video works on Chrome for PC, so I'll have to try on a Mac when I get a chance. Thanks.
# Posted By Steve Withington | 3/25/10 1:13 PM
This plug-in don't work with mac :-(
# Posted By Kirpykla klaipeda | 5/15/10 12:39 AM
@Kirpykla,
This plugin has been tested on a number of Macs and has worked fine for us. Are you getting any particular error message?
# Posted By Steve Withington | 5/17/10 7:02 AM
When trying to deploy the plugin to a site we are working on I get an error Page/17/plugin/config.xml.cfm not found. Has anyone else had this error?

I'm running the latest Mura build against Railo 3.3, maybe I'm missing a required plugin or include?

Thanks,
Joel
# Posted By Joel Spriggs | 5/21/10 8:10 AM
@Joel,
Looking over the error, it looks like it didn't install properly for some reason. The path '/17/plugin/config.xml.cfm' is what was created when you first uploaded the plugin. It didn't finish the installation process.
# Posted By Steve Withington | 5/21/10 9:56 AM
Is there any sort of manual install process that I can just dump the files into a directory and edit a few config settings?
# Posted By Joel Spriggs | 5/21/10 10:09 AM
@Joel,
The plugin is just a wrapper of my cfMediaPlayer project on RiaForge (http://cfmediaplayer.riaforge.org/).

You could simply put that in your custom tags folder and use it that way if you want.
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# Posted By college papers | 5/23/10 2:27 PM
Nice plugin, but I think I've stumbld on a bug or something. Using the page / mediaplayer i've uploaded a .mp4, but instead of one instance of the player I've got about 30 of them on my page?

Don't know where to start in debugging this, do you've got any idea?
# Posted By Lauwisme | 6/30/10 5:57 AM
Somehow, everytime i refresh players are added, as if it remembers what it did last time and adds the new content at the bottom?
# Posted By Lauwisme | 6/30/10 6:24 AM
@Lauwisme,
Interesting, I tried downloading the version from the plugin store and tested with a .mp4, but can't replicate the issue.

Can you give me some info on your setup? What version of CF, Mura, OS, browser, etc.

Also, are there any custom tags or embedded code on the page itself that might be interfering?
# Posted By Steve Withington | 6/30/10 8:51 AM

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# Posted By location automobile | 8/3/10 5:47 PM
So if I put my CloudFront URL then when a user uploads a video it will upload it to the cloud?
# Posted By James | 8/22/10 8:56 AM
@James,
Actually, your Mura install needs to be configured for Amazon S3. If it is and a user adds a video, it will be uploaded to the S3 account. As long as it's in the S3 account and you've enabled CloudFront for your S3 distribution (as well as read ACL), and you have a valid CloudFront URL entered, your videos should be streamed via Amazon's CloudFront.
# Posted By Steve Withington | 8/23/10 7:49 AM
I'm trying to integrate the MMP into my site running CF9/ Mura 5.2.2. The problem is that I cannot get the video files (currently being used in other apps) on our own hosted FMS to stream into the MMP. I keep getting the error, Video not found or access denied. I am trying to embed the code using the Mura tag. The stream itself checks out ok when I pull it through a custom built flash app. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
craig
# Posted By craig | 9/7/10 11:28 AM
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