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The most important innovations in VIMP 4.4

31. May 2021
Die wichtigsten Neuerungen in VIMP 4.4

VIMP 4.4 includes many new features and improvements. Read below what has changed.

Livestream function enhancements

Livestreams can now be published time-controlled and restricted with role permissions (analogous to “regular” media).

Channel-Funktionserweiterungen

Auch bei den Channels gibt es diverse Funktionserweiterungen, z.B. eine kompaktere Channel-Übersicht im Frontend und eine manuelle Sortiermöglichkeit der Channel-Medien.

The most important innovations in VIMP 4.4

Automatic role mapping for SAML authentication

As already for LDAP groups, you can now configure role mapping for SAML groups as well, which assigns users directly to a VIMP user role based on corresponding attribute values.

Backend improvements

We have incorporated further useful improvements in the backend. In addition to the display of storage space utilization in the dashboard, you will now also find additional statistics that provide you with the most important key figures at a glance.

The configuration was partially visually upgraded, and media whose formats are still being transcoded in the background are now marked in the media list. You can access all ViMP log files directly from the backend via the new log file manager, and configuration options have been further summarized and regrouped. In addition, you can further individualize access for users via additional backend role permissions.

New API methods

Some methods have been added to the API or existing methods have been extended.

Transcoding WebService Support

The Transcoding Webservice was developed by the FH Dortmund and accelerates the transcoding of your media on the one hand by outsourcing the transcoding to an own server and on the other hand by supporting graphic card based transcoding (GPU transcoding). With VIMP 4.4 you now have the possibility to connect the transcoding WebService to VIMP with just a few clicks.

The most important innovations in VIMP 4.4

Revised webchannel function

From now on it is possible to define any number of channels as webchannels. Webchannels can be shared from your intranet to the public internet.

Support for oEmbed

With oEmbed we offer another possibility to embed VIMP videos into other websites.

Further innovations and important notes

The list of new features and improvements in this release is long. Some more of them are e.g. media comments per media activatable, PDF fullscreen button, search by category name, email notifications per user account activatable.

In addition, VIMP 4.4 of course again contains technical innovations “under the hood”, which we describe in detail in this article.

Read more about the complete list of new features in our release notes or contact us with any questions via our contact form or by phone at +49 (0) 89 1200 1020.

VIMP Installation Service

Leave the complete installation process of your VIMP platform to us.

 

The VIMP installation service includes:

To access your server from the outside, we need the following:

We recommend Linux as operating system. An installation under UNIX, BSD or Windows is also possible, but is not officially supported by us.

Minimum server requirements for installing VIMP:

Webserver

PHP

MySQL/MariaDB

Transcoding
Please install the transcoding tools exactly as described in the documentation. Installing the standard packages is not sufficient due to patent regulations.

CSS modifications
To concatenate modified CSS files, npm must be installed.

Hardware

As a minimum requirement we recommend:

For productive use we recommend:

We recommend using a RAID controller for additional data security.

VIMP Installationsservice

Überlassen Sie den kompletten Installationsprozess Ihrer VIMP-Plattform uns.

 

Der VIMP Installationsservice beinhaltet:

  • Vorbereitung Ihres Servers
  • Installation der erworbenen VIMP Software
  • Installation der Transcoding Tools

Um von außen auf Ihren Server zugreifen zu können, benötigen wir folgendes:

  • SSH-Zugriff auf Ihren Server (idealerweise als root)
  • Vorinstalliertes Hosting (Apache + MySQL/MariaDB)

Wir empfehlen Linux als Betriebssystem. Eine Installation unter UNIX, BSD oder Windows ist ebenfalls möglich, wird von uns aber nicht offiziell unterstützt.

Minimale Servervoraussetzungen für die Installation von VIMP:

Webserver

  • Apache2
    • Version 2.4 empfohlen
  • oder NGINX

PHP

  • Version 7.1 – 8.0
  • GD-Bibliothek, openssl, cURL, MySQL, mbstring, PDO, pdo_mysql und XSL-Erweiterungen müssen installiert sein
  • PHP CLI (Command Line Interface) muss installiert sein
  • SourceGuardian Extension (außer für ViMP Ultimate Extended)

MySQL/MariaDB

  • MySQL: Version 5.7 – 8.0
  • MariaDB: Mindestens Version 10.2
  • InnoDB muss installiert sein

Transcoding
Die Transcoding-Tools bitte genau wie in der Dokumentation beschrieben installieren. Die Installation der Standardpakete ist aufgrund patentrechtlicher Bestimmungen nicht ausreichend.

  • FFmpeg
  • FFProbe
  • exiftool (>10.8)
  • time

CSS-Anpassungen
Um modifizierte CSS-Dateien zu verketten, muss npm installiert sein.

Hardware

Als Mindestanforderung empfehlen wir:

  • Quad-Core-Prozessor
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 500 GB Festplattenspeicher (die benötigte Größe hängt im Wesentlichen von der Medienzahl ab)

Für den produktiven Einsatz empfehlen wir:

  • Hexa-Core-Prozessor oder besser (mehr Kerne ermöglichen insbesondere eine schnellere Transcodierung der Medien)
  • 32 GB RAM oder mehr
  • 2000 GB Festplattenspeicher oder mehr (die benötigte Größe hängt im Wesentlichen von der Medienzahl ab)

Wir empfehlen die Verwendung eines RAID-Controllers für zusätzliche Datensicherheit.

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