Show HN: pan.do/ra - a free, open source platform for video archives

by 0x006A • 14 years ago

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julien_c3• 14 years ago

I'd be slightly worried about trademark issues with Pandora the radio -- wouldn't you?

rolux10• 14 years ago

(One of the authors here.) Good question. Does Pandora the radio have a global trademark for what is essentially a US-only product? Would such a trademark cover any type of online service, including a video archive platform? And if so, would it apply to a piece of software that is explicitly spelled pan-dot-do-slash-ra? IANAL, but I don't think so.

jtreminio• 14 years ago

It sounds like you have no idea what the answers to any of those questions are.

You even have this on your page: "panˈdôrə"

edgeman27• 14 years ago

Don't risk it, get a lawyer. The last thing you want is to create a recognised brand only to have to change the name because you saved some money by not checking.

gamache2• 14 years ago

If the best name you can think of is already in use by a huge player in internet media, exposes you to legal attack, and will confuse potential users and customers, you need to keep thinking.

foxwoods• 14 years ago

The OxJS library is really impressive, it's the JavaScript library used to build pan.do/ra's frontend. [1]

[1] https://oxjs.org/

rolux10• 14 years ago

Thanks! We're planning to formally launch it in a couple of days, and we're looking forward to your feedback...

ams6110• 14 years ago

OxJS... haven't heard of that one before. Anyone used it for anything else?

0x006A• 14 years ago

We have just released OxJS, so it's unlikely someone else already build something with it. We have other projects using it, but they are not public so far.

spindritf• 14 years ago

Forgive me for being dense, it's a really hot evening, but basically I can have my own instance of 0xDB with any clips and movies I choose, yes?

What do you mean by "pan.do/ra is a website that runs in your browser"? The movies and clips are stored on the server? Or is it some mix of local and remote media?

BTW I like a lot the way you prepared it, as an Ubuntu package and a prebuilt image -- makes it seem easy to use and tempting to try.

rolux10• 14 years ago

Yes, precisely. You can run your own instance, with your own videos, and your own configuration. Pad.ma, for example, is quite different from 0xDB.

"pan.do/ra is a website that runs in your browser" was our attempt to communicate that pan.do/ra is not just a server backend to store and serve your media, but that it comes with a web frontend to browse and manage your archive.

What you see on 0xDB is one such frontend.

Codeness• 14 years ago

I seriously think the poster is not mature enough to be the recipient of any advice. This is not a productive anf fruitful way to handle received feedback.

rolux10• 14 years ago

I'm not too interested in ad hominem attacks. Can you cite any specific examples? Would it contribute to the overall discussion if we debated them here?

rudiger• 14 years ago

If you need a new name, Pando (Latin for "I spread") is the name of the largest and possibly oldest single organism on Earth.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

rolux10• 14 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. But if you reload http://pan.do a couple of times, you'll see that there are already quite a few contenders...

julien_c3• 14 years ago

I don't get it?

nddrylliog• 14 years ago

Hey pan.do/ra team! Just stumbled upon your work, and I'm quite simply amazed. It even has a clean API, which I can't wait to play with.

I'm one of the guys behind movies.io - instead of becoming an ad-supported pirate site, we're trying to spin it into a wholly different direction (platform to spread indie movies, etc.)

The 0xDB player is quite simply stunning, and offers features that are very suited to studying particular movie clips (continuous image preview, subtitle sync with seek, reminds me of Mark Boas's work). We'd love to integrate it with movies.io where possible.

If you're reading this (hopefully - you seem to check the thread often), my e-mail is in my HN profile. Looking forward to talking about this with you!

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