Standard Grant: Fabstir Web3 Media Player #2

Grants Approved
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Hello @juleslai

Thank you for your progress report!

Regards,
Kino on behalf of the Sia Foundation and Grants Committee

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Slight delay. I aim to submit report by end of 5th Aug.

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Hello @juleslai,

Thank you for the heads up on the delayed progress report.

We appreciate your communication and will check-in on August 5th.

Regards,
Kino on behalf of the Sia Foundation and Grants Committee

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Fabstir Media Player #2 - Progress Report #4

What progress was made on your grant this month?

  • Added new standard for semi-fungible NFT nestable structures for the use case of video series and box sets

  • Fixed the import of nestable structure of encrypted media to new owner account

  • Fixed issue with audio player and scrolling lyrics

  • Added support for multiple subtitles selectable from player cc menu

  • Added support for multiple audio channels for e.g. foreign language dubbed tracks

  • Added support for credits system that includes listing departments and people with individual credits attributes

  • Added NFT permissions page to allow creators to specify which NFT markets to enter and under what royalty rates

Summarize any problems that you ran into this month and how you’ll be solving them.

  • Fabstir Media Player has a lot of features so initial release will be for invite only to catch any early issues

  • Will temporarily remove MetaMask Snaps features from a production version as audit and Consensys approval required that can be done later

Links to repos worked on this month:

What will you be working on next?

  • Media player features complete for initial release

  • Move on now to deployment and tests

  • Test integration of the media player with Fabstir’s short film platform.

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Hello @juleslai

Thank you for your progress report!

Regards,
Kino on behalf of the Sia Foundation and Grants Committee

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Almost there.
Hope okay to submit report on 10th September, along with video of planned release.

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Thanks Jules, looking forward to it.

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Fabstir Media Player #2 - Progress Report #5

What progress was made on your grant this month?

  • Developed a permissioned/permissionless marketplace integration system, allowing creators to specify their preferred royalty rates and market listings

  • Implemented a state machine system for tracking NFTs across different marketplaces for creators and resellers (e.g. accepted, pending, rejected)

  • Added support for creators to set custom fees for NFT sales and auctions, with automatic listing on selected marketplaces

  • Added some additional blockchain events for analytics data for content creators, providing further transparency of marketplace sales operations.

  • Designed standard smart contract interfaces for marketplace integration, to help with seamless integration with the Fabstir Media Player

  • Wrote an article explaining Fabstir’s new economic model for marketplaces here: fabstir-web3-media-player/other_reports/New economy for Enteratinment Industry 202409.md at main ¡ Fabstir/fabstir-web3-media-player ¡ GitHub

Summarize any problems that you ran into this month and how you’ll be solving them.

  • Took on an extra developer to design a colour customisation branding (skinning system) for the media player. Unfortunately wasn’t ready in time for this report. Once feature has passed my testing, will merge it into the Fabstir Media Player repo.

  • Expanded the scope of the media player to include what is hoped will be a sustainable economic model for the player. This delayed work on deployment. Plan to solve this by hiring external developer to handle the deployment whilst I concentrate on the application support and bringing in business to the player and the Fabstir ecosystem.

Links to repos worked on this month:

What will you be working on next?

  • Deploy and release what is current as the MVP of the Fabstir Media Player.

  • Finish off the colour customisation branding system.

  • Develop data and graphical analytics module for creators and resellers to receive comprehensive anonymous information about content usage.

  • Live demo to film industry participants of the Fabstir Media Player and its ecosystem in a London UK cinema room.

  • Help guides and documentation for non-technical users.

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Next report available

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Slight delay in progress report. Will be done for this weekend.

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Going to need another day for the report. All sorts of progress being made but it’s all happening together.

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Thanks Jules, please do your best to get these in on time.

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Fabstir Media Player #2 - Progress Report #6

What progress was made on your grant this month?

  • Decentralised subscription model integration added to Fabstir Media Player, note most of the work is done in the Fabstir ecosystem itself

  • Wrote an article explaining Fabstir’s new subscription model and presented to a film industry audience in London Subscription models suck and here is a solution…

  • Established a small list of professional distributors with a good portfolio of feature films that will be among the first to use Fabstir Media Player after stability testing period.

  • Hired professional devops to deploy Fabstir Media Player so I can concentrate on the application and the business as my workload was too high. Est. 3-4 weeks to deployment for public invite availability.

  • Extensive colour customisation feature added and working in the player so businesses’s can change the player’s UI to use their brand colours. Will be added to main branch in repo shortly.

Summarize any problems that you ran into this month and how you’ll be solving them.

  • With such a big ecosystem being deployed for launch, the problem is what to prioritise on given that there isn’t a full-time team on the project, just my time so I hired couple of freelancers to help.

  • Web3 is still a bit cumbersome for “normies” to use. Fabstir’s decentalised subscription model will help drive professional users to the player with the attaction that media can be consumed with simple click-to-watch/listen functionality by “normies” just like traditional streaming platforms, without all this wallet and private key friction getting in the way.

  • There is no marketing budget. And for an application ecosystem that feins for mass adoption that is a problem. I will continue presenting Fabstir to an industry audience and will host film competition nights in Soho, London, streaming films from Fabstir, with the aim for brand recognition through PR coverage.

Links to repos worked on this month:

What will you be working on next?

  • Help devops with whatever is needed during the Fabstir Media Player deployment.

  • For first real-world test, readying the launch of a short film platform using the Fabstir Media Player as the UI tool to the platform. Testing the integration.

  • Still outstanding is the graphical analytics module for creators and resellers. Not an issue right away as I can just read the numbers from the decentralised database and blockchain.

  • Contact the main creative industry body in UK and other experienced people for business advice to grow Fabstir.

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This video shows how to use the Fabstir Media Player to add foreign language audio and subtitles, trailer and credits to a film that is then minted as a video NFT.

play video

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