Stump the Panel » Site Managers and Site Collection Managers

How to add a movie player to MOSS

(6 posts)

  1. amila
    Member

    I need the users to be able to view video clips in MOSS. the clips will be saved in a doc library.
    what are the options available?

    Posted 10 months ago #

  2. EndUserSharePoint
    Key Master

    Ahh... finally something I know a lot about.

    A little 'client interview' first so I know what you're dealing with.

    1) How were the video clips recorded
    2) What is the final output format
    3) Is there an HTML wrapper or will people just click on the file itself to activate it

    That should get us started.
    Mark

    Posted 10 months ago #

  3. amila
    Member

    1 & 2 : no standard, they have different video files recorded in different ways (digi camera, phones, downloaded clips etc..)

    3. they only need just to click on the file and view. something similar to youtube...

    Posted 10 months ago #

  4. amila
    Member

    Hi Mark,

    any help on this?

    Posted 10 months ago #

  5. EndUserSharePoint
    Key Master

    Amila - SharePoint is not a presentation delivery system for video. When content is uploaded to YouTube, it is reformatted into a flash output that is then wrapped in the YouTube interface. Content stored in SharePoint will just be the raw file you upload.

    A document library in SharePoint can store any of the filetypes you listed above. However, SharePoint itself is document-centric and isn't really built to hold the types of files you have described.

    All that said, you can store your large video files on a file share, setup a custom list holding the metadata columns, including a link to the original resource, and then manage the information from within SharePoint. This will let you use SharePoint to its strength, which is managing information about documents, while the file share can do the heavy lifting.

    Hope that helps.
    Mark

    Posted 10 months ago #

  6. amila
    Member

    thanks, that will do the job for the moment

    Posted 10 months ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.