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1. TAG thetagname TAGID TAGLINK AUTHORID the id of the user who created this tag AUTHOR the display name of tag author AUTHOR_USERNAME the user name of tag author VIDEOCOUNT the number of videos with this tag CREATEDDATE CLOUDCSSCLASS the css class names base on the popularity of this tag When click a tag in tag cloud you can see videos with this tag in UVG VideoList remember the Search Results Tab option in UVG_ Configurations module UVG redirect to this tab when a tag is clicked Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 32 of 80 Ultra Video Gallery 4 Manage videos UVG_MyvVideos module allows video authors to manage videos created by him self UVG_MyVideos El Time Sort by Title Date Added Views Descending Order coy e Filter amp Search Search hii Gopher Play Edit Adda HAN g an series gt Added 8 26 2010 9 20 57 04 18 Series E PM Raw file Gopher flv Views 0 Category lt Allcategories gt w k Series Category None Broadcast Public FIP Upload x Ultra Video Gallery allocated a folder for you store 30 04 49 Play Edit videos and other files you can upload videos to ONN450 Portals 0 UltraVideoGallery host by Added 8 23 2010 3 55 03 00 30 FTP then click the add button below to add it to PM Raw file 30 04 49 mov Series Category None Added 8 22 2010 1 29 37 PM Raw file Series Category None Views 4 Broadcast Public
2. Play Time Views 1 Broadcast Public Edit UWG The sort by menu in top of this module and search form in top right corner can help you to find specific video Except the ability to upload videos in UVG AddVideo module you also can upload by FTP what you have to do is just open your FTP client software upload local videos to specific path on remote server then refresh the My Videos page the video uploaded will be displayed in right side click the add button to add it to UVG You can manage your own videos in UVG_ MyVideos module but how to manage videos created by other users Try to watch a video created by other user you can find an edit entry in UVG _VideoInformation module like this SuperUser Account p October 02 2008 Subscribe J Kiss H264 Category Tags Url http localhost dnn450 DesktopModules UltraVideos Embed lt object allowFullScreen True allowScriptAccess aly A few users want to manage all videos in UVG MyVideos module even the video is not created by him self this feature is not publicly supported in UVG 4 but simply add SuperMode True to the URL of My Videos page is ok Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 33 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Work with video series Video Series is a video group multiple videos can be placed in single series so your visitors can watch them together In the ist step of add video wizard you can see
3. Upload video from your local disk Add video from an internet url Add video from embed code Record a live video from your webcam Upload video by UVG Converter In this chapter we only discuss first 3 ways Upload video from your local disk As you can see in Hello World chapter it is quite simple to upload a video from your local disk the video you uploaded can be in any format if you passed permission check in configuration wizard otherwise you are limited to add flv video and mp3 audio only like below screenshot Video Source Add video wizard step 2 of 3 Upload a video from my local computer Add a video in flv format from an internet url Add a video or other medias from a piece of html code video Crop Screenshot dros Series This video doesn t belong to a video series You can upload a screenshot together with your video if you do pass the permission check you are not required to upload a video screenshot because UVG capture it while encode the video Add video from an internet url Some users intend to store their videos on a dedicated server or another internet storage provider UVG allows you to do this by adding videos from an internet URL check Add a video in flv format form an internet URL in the 2nd step of add video wizard and you will see this screen Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 25 of 80 Biz Mocwiles Ultra Video Gallery 4 Video Source Add video wizard step 2
4. 4 Bizmodules net x 1 BizMoadules net offers qualified DMM modules and service bizmadules net The area between 2 red borders is used to display Background commercial in Module Settings of the player you can set gallery size and player size if player size equals to gallery size or they are close there may not be enough place to show background commercial in this case background commercial is ignored The area in green border is used to play your video content however Preroll amp Postroll commercials are played here too please note the control bar below the video area is disabled when playing preroll and postroll commercials so your visitors must wait until the commercial is finished The area in blue border is used to display BottomThird commercial the close button can be used Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 57 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 to hide it when your visitor is not interested When watch videos in series UVG only play the Preroll and Postroll commercial for once when your visitor watch the 2nd video he won t see them again However the BottomThird and Background commercials refresh when he click other videos in this series so you can have more valid impressions UVG add an impression record to database once a commercial is hitted the record contains impression time audience name IP video being watched etc When a commercial is finished e g reaches it s date period lim
5. Tapeli Aprpunt aaam l i L a cline Boo ii BQ DOs Def O21 aio aid l Firet Rium T Commen Responsa r Ferca Arant ts amp Re Agimi dari ape ETENA re steun gt 2 Sapata Aen ch that viden paipa LVG_WabchHistory S00 2 ee nn iria ei ma i aem a EE N i lee rim hE rarremeE Corre Post Comment F AG Viebeo Rating amago Rating Hot raad Pate jma West Rating Carmeni toc E cebo Wi delicio us fagg Ej Facebook F Live Spaces Gh Hh ATERPRISE LEVEL DOTNET URE SH UTIONS Copyright 2007 by Phy Wiebe In this example we have UVG VideolInformation UVG RelatedVideos and UVG_ WatchHistory in left pane UVG Player UVG VideoComments and UVG_VideoRating in center pane Above 4 tabs are indispensable for any DNN website the only exception is to use UVG MediaCenter module instead when use this module the Video List and Video Player tab are combined The tabs described below may also be useful depends on your business circumstance My Videos you can create such a tab to host UVG_MyVideos module which allows video authors to edit their own works it is particularly useful if your videos are collected from multiple users My Series this tab can be combined with My Videos tab in this tab you should place a UVG_ MySeries module where video authors can manage their own video serieses Video Approval if you enable video moderation you should create such a tab to host UVG_PendingVideos here you can r
6. The upper right area displays the video title and description it also offers a link to see comments posted by other users and another link to add a comment The author information is displayed below comment links it also has a button to see all other videos posted by current author If your videos are uploaded by same user you may not need this area in this case simply disable Show author info and other videos in Module Settings below is a screenshot of the Module Settings page Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 37 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Module Settings Player Size 640 x 360 Widescreen Mode All videos in this portal K Allow category selection Options Show author info and other videos Sort by Recent Video New Videos Mark videos added in recent Y days as new Background FABE44 Update Cancel Player size is used to set the size of the UVG video player but please note it applys to non embeded videos only for embedded videos UVG is not able to control its size because the size is set in embed code itself in this case UVG still reserve such a area for it if the embed video is smaller than reserved area it works without any problem but if the embed video happen to be larger than the reserved area the exceeding part will not be visible Mode option is used to set which videos to be played in this module it defaults to all videos in this portal but you can also sele
7. 1 Unk text b used by BottomThid File Url only 2 Link unis avaiable to al kinds of commerce but optional Conditions 3 Fie url E used by Background Preroll and Postrol which i the Stop it when either end date or max impression is reached full path of the commercial file for Stop t when both end date and max impression is reached reid Pn er aes or flash movie sw for Preroll and Date Range start 3i end 3i Postrol it must be a fiv or H264 l l encoded mp4 video Max Impressions CPM Cost ae ee Canes You can see 4 kinds of commercials are supported by UVG Background you can display a background picture or flash movie swf in your video player a valid jpeg picture or swf movie url must be specified in File Url field BottomThird bottomthird is text advertisement displayed in lower part of the video player when a video is being played the Title field in above screenshot dictates the title of the advertisement the Description field dictates the body of the advertisement Link Url field dictates the link target when click on it and Link Text dictates the label of the hyperlink Preroll amp Postroll it s easy to understand these 2 are played before or after your video content only File Url in above screenshot is necessary which should be a valid url of a flv video if the flv file is stored within your website you can ignore the domain name otherwise you should provide the full Copyright by
8. Installed Language Packs German Germany Share Click the Share button to share it UVG pack your language resource files to a zip file and send to service bizmodules net by email we appreciate your participation Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 72 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Audio gallery Besides video files UVG can serve mp3 audio as well At first you should enable mp3 file extension in the last step of the configuration wizard Then try to upload an mp3 audio to UVG UVG save it in original mp3 format but there is no screenshot since there is no video stream in mp3 when try to watch an mp3 audio you won t see classic UVG video player instead a new designed audio player is launched to play selected audio Delian Ls Mae il Delian 00 20 00 52 a_i aj You can enter the lyric of your mp3 audio in video description field our audio player scroll the lyric from bottom to top repeatedly hover your mouse on any word to pause it You can change the color scheme of the audio player manually the configurations are all saved in portal root UltraVideoGallery ConfigurationMp3 xml The audio player doesn t support video series so don t include your audio in any series when add it it won t work as you expected Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 73 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Flash movie swf gallery When add video from embed code you can use anything as
9. Ultra Video Gallery 4 Media Center Since the 15 version of UVG we introduced the traditional way to organize tabs to host UVG modules you need to implement Video List and Video Player tab so users can click a video in the 1s tab and watch it in the 2 tab You may have got used to that but UVG 4 offers a completely different way to deliver video contents To do that add an instance of UVG_ MediaCenter to your DNN page v UVG_MediaCenter E see all 39 videos G High Definition 02 Star Size Comparision Asteroid Impact HD Dinner time Gardon works In the drop down menu of this module you can find Appearance _ UVG MediaCenter and Module Settings as shown in right side click Appearance if you di Module Settings would like to customize colors watermark and other behaviors of the Appearance video player in upper left area you may have noticed there is also a Help Appearance menu in UVG VideoPlayer module but they are gt Print independent e g changes you make in UVG MediaCenter will not affect UVG_VideoPlayer Settings This module supports all types of videos including embed videos the 3 item in above screenshot is embedded from youtube when click on it the youtube player is loaded in upper left area The bottom section is video list you may have seen the 1st and 2 4 video are marked as New in the Module Settings page you can configure videos added in how many days to be marked as new
10. You can select one or more videos and Approve or Reject them rejected videos are deleted from your server A notification email is sent to the author once a video is approved or rejected the email template can be customized in SharedResourceFile ascx resx Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 45 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 View permission In default all videos in UVG are public in some case you may want to restrict some users from watching specific videos this can be done by view permission feature UVG allows you to set view permission on both category and video level if you don t set view permission on video level the settings in category level is applied if it is also not set on category level this video become public To demonstrate this feature I enable view permission on category level in UVG Configurations module the view roles option is now available in edit category screen Edit Category Category Business Veworder SS LJ Administrators Subscribers View Roles C Registered Users C All Users player Tab Update Delete Cancel View roles defaults to blank so this category is public to all users change it to Registered Users and save changes then I logout my current session so I m not a member of registered users I get this message when I try to watch a video in this category You don t have necessary permission to watch this video Al To watch it you m
11. comment times rating score total ratings videos created in past X days Most Viewed List most viewed videos created in past X days Profile integration Integrate with your profile modules user key in right side must properly set Recent Videos List videos by created date with desending order Video Spotlight List random videos created in past X days Top Rated List highest rated videos created in past X days Selecting Recent Videos equals to UVG_LatestVideos module selecting Most Popular equals to UVG _ PopularVideos and selecting Video Spotlight equals to UVG_VideoSpotlight The profile integration list type can be used to be integrated with your profile modules UVG _FreeVideoList also supports partial rendering Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 43 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Below tokens can be used in the display template of both UVG_ VideoList G UVG_FreeVideoList VIDEOTITLE Video title CREATEDDATE DESCRIPTION LINK The link to watch this video SCREENSHOT SCREENSHOTWIDTH The screenshot width set in UVG Configurations module VIEWS Number of videos VIDEOID CREATEDAGO How long ago this video is created COMMENTS Number of comments AUTHORID AUTHOR Author display name AUTHOR USERNAME TAGS LENGTH Video length AVERAGERATING Average rating scroe CREATEDDATE Date Format Format created date in specified format
12. if your server has enough bandwidth Our video encoding engine works as long as you pass the permission check however it may take a lot of time and CPU resource so we suggest you to use UVG Converter instead if you have bulk videos to add When a video is uploaded UVG check its original resolution and aspect ratio if the uploaded video is smaller that the max width its original resolution is kept if it s bigger UVG resize it and keep it s original aspect ratio so you can upload videos in any aspect ratio 4 3 16 9 or even 2 35 1 whatever This tab also contains settings for live video recording for further information please refer to Live video recording chapter Permissions The permission tab looks like this Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 22 of 80 Biz Mochilers Permissions Tab amp Profile Youtube Video Encoding Users who can add videos F Administrators Registered Users Subscribers Users who can add videosi with from interenet url and embed code option only E Administrators WV Registered Users Subscribers Users who can manage all videos F Administrators Registered Users Subscribers Enable view permission On categories and individual videos W In UVG_VideoList module remove videos without permission to watch Redirect to Not Speciied gt when users try to watch a video without permission Amazon S3 Integration Configuration Wizard Preuninstall Ot
13. s designed as a complementary tool for users who are not able to pass the permission check since version 3 it s fully redesigned and redeveloped We suggest you to use it even you are able to pass the permission check because it s powerful and easy to use Click here to download it please note UVG Converter depends on NET framework 2 0 support if it isn t installed on your computer you will be required to install it before UVG Converter Run it after successful installation UVG Converter minimize to system tray like this a UFG Converter current website My Website User name Not specified Right click here gt Websites Edit My Website to enter your user name and password dobe FPhot UVG Converter doesn t have a main window all functions are available through its right mouse menu Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 77 of 80 IE Biz Modules fee ee Te ie ea ea F Ultra Video Gallery 4 Register your website Before using UVG Converter you should register your website first so UVG Converter know where to upload your videos Right click UVG Converter icon gt Websites gt Edit My Website you will get the edit website window W dit Website Site url Rito Awa medonmamn com Portal User name Password Verification Enter your site domain in the 1st text box the portal drop down list refreshes to list all portals existed in this DNN website if yo
14. System so the uploaded files still keep in server disk after uninstallation you can leave them alone or delete them manually to delete them please simply delete the root folder of this product in each sub portal if exist Portal Root UltraVideoGallery you can delete them by FIP or File Manager under Admin menu Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 12 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Obtaining technical support As a licensed user of a Biz Modules product we offer you long term technical support for the life of the product should you require technical support at any time Priority support is provided in the Biz Modules technical support forum In the forum you can browse topics submitted by other users or post a new topic if you find that your issue has not yet been discussed in the forum You can reach the support forum at http www bizmodules net Forums tabid 55 Default aspx For brief questions about Ultra Video Gallery and for all other matters regarding Biz Modules email service bizmodules net if you failed to receive a reply within 48 hours please try to contact our hotmail account rongers hotmail com Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 13 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Getting started Creating UVG Tabs There are 2 ways to organize tabs to host UVG modules in this chapter we discuss how to setup UVG tabs in traditional way but if you use the new UVG MediaCenter m
15. Test Video i Added 3 months apa Adted 1 days ago one From Test Account FromeSuperUser Account Comments 0 Viewss0 ai FirstRun Added 3 months aga in category Business ae Fraricadnmetratee Account Po Added 3 days ago LS 2007 overview hi vi Y We From Supertiser Account 02 32 0z TFS Comments 0 views 0 Added weeks Ee TENE Little bad boy 2 me 05 20 F e k F bed day From Supeniser Account Video Player At last you should create a video player tab to host UVG VideoPlayer module so your users can click a video in video list tab and watch it in this tab Please note the UVG VideoPlayer definition contains 5 sub modules UVG Player UVG VideoComments UVG _ VideoRating UVG_ VideoInformation and UVG_ RelatedVideos once you add it to a tab all of them are added but you may need to adjust their panes and sort orders Below is an example Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 14 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Ve DOTNETNUKE rid etree cc Home Add Vko Planer Category Conta Let Fr ls Hise Biches Comer Poste Aciveliges Search Result Pandi fuera LPOG _ Payer Superliser Account fs a oe S gt October 02 2008 ED subscribe 46c36c42 6008 46bd ab b eebbSbes0f51 46c3604 6006 46bd abaib eebbSbeI0lS 1 A ee dr So Dee eed lee Ural dao So aU Ut gS Linen my YT Related videas frig Peed wedens T Hor from this author Yrm Fees Sup AHH Account cand 3 ras LaF 4471 Fr
16. again when upgrade from UVG 2 or UVG 3 you can make a full upload of the Binaries folder or compare their difference and only upload changed items Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 10 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Upgrade guide When upgrade from prior versions you should carefully read this chapter before continue Binary pack UVG 4 binary pack contains some new files you should install the binary pack again when upgrade from UVG 2 x or 3 x for further information please refer to previous chapter License Since Ultra Video Gallery 4 x the version number of your license is required to be same as the version number of the PA installed so you will be required to activate UVG once again after upgrading from any prior version to UVG 4 Basically you need to follow these steps to upgrade from UVG 1 2 3 to UVG 4 1 Obtain the PA of UVG 4 You can download it in Snowcovered My Downloads page you may need to contact us by email if you did not purchase it on Snowcovered Find out your serial number which was used to activate UVG If you cannot remember it you can visit below URL to retrieve it http www bizmodules net DesktopModules BizModules TONConnecter Resend aspx sku UVG amp email Y our Email Address Upgrade your license to UVG 4 To perform the upgrade you need to use our license upgrade program Install UVG 4 to overwrite prior version Please refer to the Installation Guide cha
17. and distribution name like this Bucket Name gt Disctrubution Name If you have 2 buckets the 1st bucket is uvgvideos the corresponding distribution name is divrk8tesw8yga the 22 bucket is uvgvideos_subportal the corresponding distribution name is d3kro2xelq3oql your CloudFront txt should looks like this uvgvideos gt divrk8tesw8yga uvgvideos_ subportal gt d3kro2xelq3oql Since Amazon s CloudFront feature supports RIMP protocal you also can make it look like this to Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 65 of 80 Biz Modules Cite a benefit from this feature uvgvideos gt rtmp divrk8tesw8yga cloudfront net uvgvideos_ subportal gt rtmp d3kro2xelq3oql cloudfront net Save changes and run Restart Application in Host Settings then UVG will redirect http request to your amazon bucket to CloudFront distribution Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 66 of 80 Biz Mochiles Ultra Video Gallery 4 Integrate with other products Notify Active Social when add a video UVG 4 x is able to notify Active Social 18 when a new video is added but under default configuration Active Social doesnot show video events in its summary module you must manually enable it in active social s control panel gt J ournal gt Available J ournal Types Then you can click Videos in this section to create an access key for UVG In UVG side you need to turn on the integration and te
18. bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 56 of 80 Biz Merchiles fee fe ie eS Te E aTa O tee oot fn oe Ultra Video Gallery 4 path for example UVG runs on http yourdomain com dnn the flv video is mycommercial flv under your portal root folder you can just type dnn portals 0 mycommercial flv as File Url Scope dictates the applying scope of this commercial when set it to empty this commercial applies to all videos in your entire portal when set it to a video category only videos in this category are applied Conditions section dictates in which conditions this commercial is active you can set a start and end date for it or limit it by setting a max impression number Having created your commercials UVG video player picks specific commercials every time you watch a video the logic to pick commercials is a bit complicated below is the basic principle 1 When watch a video in specific category UVG prefers to pick a commercial in this category if no item is found commercials applies to entire portal is picked 2 When watch a video which doesn t belong to any series UVG only pick 1 preroll 1 postroll 1 bottomthird and 1 background commercial if exist 3 When watch a video which belongs to a series let s say there are X videos in this series UVG picks 1 preroll 1 postroll X bottomthird and X background commercial Below is a typical screen showing how UVG video player present your commercials babydance_0002
19. error message to us for trouble shooting UVG 4 is designed to be compatible with DNN 5 but the installation process in DNN 5 is a little different in a default DNN 5 website you may get this warning when install UVG Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 9 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 The package contains files with invalid File Extensions Ignore File Restrictions d This is because a file with asmx extension is in the PA which is not allowed by a default DNN website to fix this problem simple add asmx to Host Settings gt Advanced Settings gt Other Settings gt File Upload Extensions box or just check Ignore File Restrictions before continue If you want to configure UVG to do online video encoding which allows you to upload videos in non flv format you should follow instruction below to install the binary pack however if you just add internet videos or use UVG Converter to add new videos you can skip the rest part of this chapter The binary back is a zip file which contains necessary codecs and utilities you can download it here to install it is very simple just unpack it to get a folder named Binaries then please copy all files in this folder to DesktopModules UltraVideoGallery Binaries folder on your website if your website is located on a remote server you may need to do it by FTP Comparing with prior versions UVG 4 binary pack contains some extra files so you should install it
20. in UVG_VideoPlayer module If you want ae to change the label text in this area select Appearance in the module menu Low and find Video Quality section High lil Low Quality 5ub Title Quality Selection mwy i High Quality Sub Title If you serve low quality videos in 320p and high quality videos in 720p you can enter corresponding texts in this section and optionally enter HD in the sub title of high quality version save changes and watch a video again the quality selection area now looks more professional rr 720p ll Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 59 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 UVG generates videos in mp4 extension when encode videos to H264 but this doesn t mean all mp4 videos are encoded by H264 actually mp4 is a just a media container there are many possible video formats for mp4 file most of them can t be played in flash Thus UVG still re encode it if you upload a video with mp4 extension However some softwares are able to create H264 encoded mp4 video if you are sure the mp4 videos going to be uploaded to your website are all in H264 format you should uncheck Encode it again checkbox in UVG Configurations module Please note this doesn t mean UVG don t alter your video at all due to some reasons most softwares place video meta informatation in file end when generate mp4 videos which means flash is not able to play it before the
21. of 3 Upload a video from my local computer Add a video in flv format from an internet url Add a video or other medias from a piece of html code Video url Screenshot urt o Series This video doesn t belong to a video series Pat i r Supported formats fiv mpI Continue You must provide the URL of your flv mp4 video and screenshot before continue UVG records your last choice of video source when add new videos so if your last video is an internet video the add from internet option is automatically checked when you enter UVG AddVideo module again Add video from embed code Most video websites offers Embed Code which allows you to embed a video on their website to elsewhere on internet embed code is a piece of html code which allows you to watch a video with the vendor s own video player As an example when watch a video on DailyMotion com the embed code can be got in below textbox lt object width 480 height 3 fq embed code Copy it to your clipboard go to UVG AddVideo module and check Add a video or other medias from a piece of html code you get a screen similar to this Video Source Add video wizard step 2 of 3 Upload a video from my local computer Add a video in flv format from an internet url Add a video or other medias from a piece of html code Screenshot ut SSS Series This video doesn t belong to a video series 3 ae a L ay Supported form
22. set to id that s all Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 69 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Work with other video formats The video encoding engine in UVG can serve a lot of video formats even that are not publicly advertised for example VCD video with dat extension and High Definition video with ts extension You can try to upload your video in other formats to see whether it can be supported by UVG however you must allow this kind of extension in Host Settings before upload it For example if you want to upload a VCD video please login with host and ensure dat extension is included in Host Settings gt Advanced Settings gt Other Settings gt File Upload Extensions box Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 70 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Search engine optimization UVG is specially optimized for search engines in many ways To benefit from this please ensure Friendly Url is enabled in your website you can find this option from Host Settings gt Advanced Settings gt Friendly Url Settings Try to click a category in UVG_ CategoryList module UVG redirects you to the video list page let s see what happened in your browser address bar Diy Febsite gt Video Gallery gt Sports KMozilla Firefox File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help 5 ce at ie http flocalLhostdond TO
23. these options Video Series Add video wizard step 1 of 3 This video doesn t belong to a video series Create a new video series to include this video Append this video to a recently used video series Continue The 3rd option allows you to add new videos to an existing video series the 2nd option allows you to create a new video series Video Series Add video wizard step 1 of 3 This video doesn t belong to a video series Create a new video series to include this video Append this video to a recently used video series Seres tte SSS Series Description Category lt None Specified gt Continue You should enter a title and optional description for your series a series can be assigned to a video category but please note videos belongs to a series no longer have a category option Can I attach an existing video to a series The answer is yes find this video and edit it in the edit screen you can see Series section This video doesn t belong to any series Add to series fs Enter the name of your series in this text box this textbox support auto complete you just need to enter first 2 characters and UVG will list all series with this prefix Clicking the green button will Series attach current video to selected series This video doesn t belong to any series Add to series Fy Free style swiming Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 34 of 80 IE Biz Hric les fee
24. to 536 x 302 so the video content takes the whole place of the TV screen area but in this case UVG control bar overlaps on the Sony logo Then you should manually open portal root UltraVideoGallery Configuration xml and adjust the playerY attribute this attribute dictates the vertical coordinate of the video player in the stage if you use bravia picture you should set it to 23 you can safely add this attribute if it doesn t exist Restart your website after setting a new playerY value Videos in series When watch a video in series UVG displays a menu bar in the bottom of the player it may overlap on the bottom area of your frame picture to fix this problem you need 2 gallery size options one for individual videos and one for videos in series Assume you use the bravia frame you can set gallery size to 583 x 430 for single video and 583 x 480 for videos in series the additional 50 pixels ensures the menu bar doesn t overlap on the TV base To do this please login to your site by FIP rename VideoPlayerSettings ascx in UVG folder to VideoPlayerSettings single ascx and rename VideoPlayerSettings Series ascx to VideoPlayerSettings ascx then you can find the new option in UVG Video settings Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 76 of 80 IE Biz Mocduiles fee ee Te ie ea ea F Ultra Video Gallery 4 UVG Converter Overview UVG Converter is the client tool for Ultra Video Gallery in version 1 x and 2 x it
25. 80 Biz Modules UVG_VideoList Recent Videos Most Discussed Most Popular GMS Rocks via 05 09 Added 9 hours ago From Superliser A count Comments Views 0 Ja FirstRun 00 06 E From SuperUser Account Comments 0 Views 0 Kiss H264 a 01 00 Added 6 days ago From Superliser Account Comments 0 Views 0 Pages 12 3 4 15 E Added 4 days ago in category Business Ultra Video Gallery 4 Al Time 31811_12744271 03 50 Added 1 days ago From superliser ACCOUNT Comments 0 Views 0 funny 02 30 F Added 6 days ago From superliser ACCOUNT Ss Comments Views 0 babydance_0002 00031 Added 6 days ago Fom Superuser Account Comments 0 Views 0 This module supports partial rendering if ASP NET ajax is installed on your website clicking paging buttons in the bottom sorting menus in the top and timeline option in top right corner will cause a postback in ajax manner without page refresh In prior versions UVG have 3 extra listing modules UVG LatestVideos UVG PopularVideos UVG VideoSpotLight These modules are no longer available in UVG 3 these features can be replicated by new UVG_FreeVideoList module The Settings screen of UVG_ FreeVideoList is similar to UVG VideoList but you can select 2 list types only Available list types are listed below Most Discussed List most commented videos created in past X days Most Popular List most popular view times
26. 9 26 KB of 85 19 KB in total 17 83 KB s SERRE RR RRR REE EE remaining 00 00 Series This video doesn t belong to a video series time elapsed 00 01 Supported formats 3g2 3gp ast avi Av miv mow mpg mp4 moe mpeg mpg mm rmb set wm wie vob A few seconds later you should be navigated to the last step of the add video wizard here you can enter your video title description and tags before watch it Basic Information Add video wizard step 3 of 3 Raw file HelloWorld fly Screenshot Hello W Time Video Category lt None Speciied gt Tags Tags are keywords which best describe your video separated by space BroadCast Options Video approved _ Featured video Heare blank to use default options Save amp Watch Or Save amp Add another Click Save amp Watch button to finally see the Hello World video in UVG player Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 17 of 80 Biz Mocwiles Ultra Video Gallery 4 LAG Player Hello World Hello A demo video for Ultra Video Gallery a 66002 00 04 Bal pa T Very simple isn t it Ultra Video Gallery is designed to be powerful yet easy to use Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 18 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Configuration guide The UVG Configurations module is used to configure this product when you use it for the 1st time it launchs Configuration Wizard after finish it you see the normal confi
27. Auto so UVG handle it automatically the default value is Fixed When set to Fixed qmin and or qmax attribute must be given in this node qmin should be smaller than qmax the suggested range of these 2 parameters is 1 20 please note smaller value means better video quality so qmin dictates the maximum video quality and qmax dictates the minimum video quality The default setting for this node is qmin 5 and qmax 15 you can try to change it to gmin 5 gmax 10 to for better quality Please note better quality means bigger file size you should monitor the file size while increasing video quality We suggest you to keep qmax gt 10 when use UVG on internet Since both UVG standard edition and professional edition can encode videos to flv format the flv node is available for both editions H264 encoded video quality UVG is not able to directly encode some kind of video formats to mp4 format for example Real media rm so sometimes UVG encode it to mpg at first and then encode it again to mp4 format Mp4 and Mp4_ baseline node dictates the video quality of H264 encoded videos and mpg node dictates the video quality of temporary mpg videos The mode attributes of these 3 nodes can be 1 Fixed Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 61 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Use a fixed bitrate the bitrate attribute must be a valid big number for example 800000 means 800 kbps 1600000 means 1 600 kbps if vid
28. Biz Mocwiles Ultra Video Gallery 4 Se Paces ed rl DotNetNuke Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 User Guide Expand the Bookmark menu in left side to see the table of contents Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 1 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Overview Ultra Video Gallery UVG is a DotNetNuke DNN application designed to work in DotNetNuke websites ONLY This documentation assumes that you have prior experience with the DotNetNuke environment For further information about DotNetNuke please refer to DNN information found at www dotnetnuke com Why need Ultra Video Gallery Video clip is everywhere in our world you can take it by your home digital camera computer camera mobile phone you can get it from your DVD or VCD disk you can record your screen by screen recorder softwares to make learning courses you can find favorite videos on Youtube or other video community websites but it may not be an easy job to share videos in various formats on your DotNetNuke website A common experience is to upload videos to Youtube and embed it back to your website this may be a possible solution if you have only 1 or 2 videos but it won t work if you have numerous videos because you are not able to offer a comprehensive video list for your users and your video contents are delivered with youtube logo instead of your own logo Is there a better solution Yes Ultra Video Gallery is the best choice t
29. Please select which video formats are allowed to be uploaded Please note some video formats have high qualigh and large file size for example avi vob mpg and wmv frequently upload of these files will reduce your server performance 3 g p 3 gp asf avi mfy Mm4v Mmov Mmp3 these high quality formats mp4 Mmpe Mmpeg Mmpg 5 mrm MrmvbmMswt mwm UVG also support some extra video formats lke VCD b video if you want to include it please add WMV Wvo corresponding fille extension dat for VCD to Host Settings gt Advanced Settings gt Other Settings gt File Upload Extensions box It is suggested to allow all video formats except In this screen you can select allowed video formats please note only flv swf and mp3 are available if you didn t pass the permission check in 1st step click Next button to enter the last step Configuration Wizard Upload Limitation Make appropriate settings to prevent large uploads Max File Size __ KB e g 100 MB 102400 KB This option dictates the size limatation of the videos upload to your web server please note this limitation affects to Ultra Video Gallery only After applying this change you should alter configuration gt system web gt neatUpload gt maxNormalRequestLength if you want to change the traditional maxRequestLength option on httpRuntime section you wil get a Total size gt xxxxxxx bytes error when upload files without UVG if this option is not properly set i
30. ant color blocks in prior version Beside that the bitrate of the video in UVG 4 is only about 60 percent of UVG 3 which means it will be more fast for visitors to download and saves your bandwith and storage space cost With the enhanced video encoding engine it s now possible to deliver true HD 72op or even 1080p videos on DotNetNuke Below is a list of most important enhancements in UVG 4 Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 5 of 80 Biz Modules 1 Ultra Video Gallery 4 Better quality smaller file size as stated above iPhone iPad support UVG 4 support H264 baseline profile this kind of videos works perfectly on iPhone and iPad Media Center The new UVG_ MediaCenter module offers complete different look amp feel to deliver video contents it allows you to browse watch rate and comment videos in a single DotNetNuke module Flexible encoding strategy UVG 4 allows you encode a low quality and a high quality version for each video uploaded You can configure it to use flv h264 encoding or h264 h264 encoding or flv encoding only remember H264 encoding is supported in UVG Professional Edition only Sub Categories You can create unlimited levels of sub categories in UVG 4 Easily add videos from Youtube Youtube offers different formats of embed codes to embed a video to elsewhere they may have different size color and behavior but UVG can convert these embed codes to have a unique appearanc
31. ats AN Continue Paste the embed code to the corresponding textbox optionally provide the screenshot of this video Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 26 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 and press Continue after saving this video you can watch it in UVG with DailyMotion video player You may have noticed that the embed textbox is a free input UVG doesn t check it at all so actually you are not limited to embed videos only you can embed an article a picture a flash game a flash gallery built in Ultra Media Gallery whatever Accepted video types In default UVG_ AddVideo module accepts all types of videos but you can disable the ability to add videos from local disk or internet URL if you wish Click Module Settings in the module menu of first step of UVG AddVideo module below screen appears Module Settings Upload a video from my local computer Y Record a video with my webcam and microphone Videos Accepted ao Add a video from an internet url or Youtube Add a video or other media from a piece of html code Users can choose categories after adding a video you also can restrict videos Video Category 3 LANTER ES added in this module to be placed in Broadcast a Update Cancel Here you can choose whether to accept all 4 kinds of videos in this module beside that you can limit videos added in this module to be automatically placed in specific category In previous chapter we discusse
32. b UVG_VideoInformation Displays basic information for current video the content to be displayed in this module is fully template driven c UVG VideoComments This module allows your visitors to post comments for current video and see comments posted by other peoples d UVG VideoRating This module allows your visitors to rate current video and use email notification to share it The link to post current video to 7 popular social networking websites also can be found e UVG RelatedVideos This module renders a list of videos which have common tags as current playing one and other videos from this author UVG_WatchHistory This module renders a list of latest watched videos UVG Converter 4 The client side desktop application this tool can encode videos on your local computer and upload encoded files to UVG on remote website Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 4 of 80 rei Te ee a es r E What s new in UVG 4 UVG supports H264 encoding since version 3 the video quality of H264 encoded videos is far more clearer than traditional flv videos but in version 4 we upgraded our encoding engine to lift the video quality to a new level UVG 3 Re H 264 encoding 1 SRO PS iu VG j a Above screenshot shows the quality difference between UVG 3 and UVG 4 under default configurations compare it in defails and you will see the video generated by UVG 4 is much clearer and smoother it completely removes unpleas
33. bottom of UVG_VideoList module you can find this link RSS this page UVG Videolist allows you to sort videos by 6 criterias like Recent Videos Most Popular Most Discussed etc videos sorts in the rss equals to the sorts in UVG_ VideoList e g if you click Most Popular in UVG_ VideoList and then click RSS this page you get a rss feed which sort videos by populartity Another enhancement introduced in UVG 3 is the ability to subscribe to specific video author when you watch a video you can see this linkin UVG_VideoInformation module SuperUser Account EER gt October 02 2008 Subscribe J Kiss H264 Category Tags Url http localhost dnn450 DesktopModules UltraVideos Embed lt object allowFulScreen True allowScriptAccess aly Clicking the Subscribe button to get a rss feed which includes videos created by this author only In default the url to watch a video in Video Player page on your website is included in the rss feed so subscribers come to your website to watch a video in some case you may want to publish the direct link of the video file in the rss feed this url can be delivered by rss enclosure tag To do this please find and open Feed aspx in Desktopmodules UltraVideoGallery folder locate this line lt LoadRss False gt And change to lt lLoadRss True gt Just save changes and try again for further information about enclosure tag please refer to wikipedia Copyright by biz
34. ck beside it to select a color from a graphical color picker please note the color picker works in IE only The Load Default Settings button in Appearance settings can load default values from an xml file if you want to edit the default values you just need to alter Defaultxml under Desktopmodules UltraVideoGallery folder Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 49 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Video upload quota Quota is the max number of videos a user can add when you collect videos from site users you may want to restrict them from adding numerous videos In UVG Configurations module you can find a checkbox to activate this feature L Upload Quota Check it and save changes then you can see a link to edit quota details beside this option click it and following screen appears Upload Quota Registered users Ooi Update Cancel All Composing roles defined in UVG Configurations module are listed here you can enter a positive value if you want to limit this role from adding more videos leave it blank to allow this role adding unlimited videos if a user belongs to 2 or more roles the maximum quota of these roles is applied If the quota of a user is reached this user won t be able to add more videos on your website Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 50 of 80 Biz Mochilers Ultra Video Gallery 4 RSS subscription Rss subscription allows you to subscribe to a video listing in the
35. ct video in a series video in a category or video with a tag If you would like your visitors to be able to choose a video category select Allow category selection In Sort by area you can choose the default sort order of videos UVG_ MediaCenter is iPhone iPad compatible Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 38 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Advanced Topics Live video recording UVG 4 is able to record live videos from webcam but it must work together with Flash Media Server FMS Before using this feature please be aware there are 3 different versions of flash media server 1 Flash Media Streaming Server 2 Flash Media Interactive Server 3 Flash Media Development Server Only the 224 and 3 one supports live video recording the interactive server can be purchased on Adobe s website the development server can be downloaded for free but it is limited to 10 simultaneous connections If you have your interactive server or development server setup or you created a shared FMS hosting you can now download the server side application for live recording from here Unpack it to get a folder named uvg a few plain text files can be found in this folder now copy this folder to the applications folder of your FMS it defaults to C Program Files x86 Adobe Flash Media Server 3 5 applications Or C Program Files Adobe Flash Media Server 3 5 applications Then you ca
36. d apply this type string BizModules UltraVideoGallery Profile ActiveSocial BizModules UltraVideoGallery ActiveSocialProfileProvider Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 55 of 80 Biz Mochiles Ultra Video Gallery 4 Commercial amp Advertisement Before reading this chapter please be aware this feature is available in UVG Professional Edition only in Standard Edition you also can create and manage commercials but UVG player doesn t play them Since videos added from embed code are not played in UVG video player all commercials doesn t work for embedded videos Before creating a commercial in UVG you should create a Vendor first Vendors are companies or organizations which place commercials on your website to manage your vendors login with portal administrator account and visit Admin Vendors page If your commercials belong to different vendors be sure to create all of them Then add UVG Commercial module to a DNN page you can see a list of all vendors in this portal click button beside vendor names to manage commercials of this vendor then click Add New button to add a new item Basic Information Biz Modules Solutions a ms j Ph pi 1l l AAAA St REER U E ig Stat Type Background BottomThird Preroll 2 Postrol i i B i ai Tithe Email rongersihotmai com Status Description Impresssons Clicks Scope lt None Specfied gt W seve z Link Text Link Url Instructions
37. d the permission to add videos admin users can grant a user to add video from local disk or from interenet Assuming we have a user UserA who have permission to add videos from local disk and interenet what happens when UserA try to use UVG AddVideo module which accepts video from internet only UserA will not be able to upload videos from local disk although sufficient permission is granted However this doesnot prevent UserA from adding videos from local disk in another instance of UVG AddVideo Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 27 of 80 Ultra Video Gallery 4 Youtube integration You can add video from Youtube to UVG with either from internet URL or from embed code option when choose from internet URL you should provide the URL to watch it like this http www youtube com watch v HEheh1BH34Q When add video from Youtube you DONOT need to provide the screenshot URL UVG is able to automatically determine it so simply paste the URL above to the 2 4 step of UVG_AddVideo wizard and press continue Video Source Add video wizard step 2 of 3 t Upload a video from my local computer C Record a video with my webcam and microphone Add a video from an internet url or Youtube 0 Add a video or other media from a piece of html code Video url http www youtube com watch v HEheh1BH340 Screenshot url Series This video doesn t belong to a video series Supporten formats Av mod The thing t
38. e This also works when you add a youtube video just with from internet URL option HTML 5 lt video gt tag support lt video gt tag in HTML 5 standard allows you to deliver video contents without any 3 party plugin like Flash UVG 4 allows you to use this tag instead of flash for specific browsers Live video record If you have a Flash Media Interactive Server or Flash Media Development server FMS UVG allows you to record videos with your webcam and publish it via RTMP protocal For more information on the latest enhancements to UVG please see the Release Notes on bizmodules net Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 6 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 System requirements Ultra Video Gallery is designed to work in ALL DNN 4 5 x and higher websites including but not restricted to 4 5 x 4 6 x 4 7 x 4 8 x 4 9 x 5 0 x and 5 5 x Ultra Video Gallery even works on websites run in medium trust on shared servers but there are some restrictions Luanching External Process To encode videos and capture video screenshot UVG need support from a series of codecs these codecs are included in our binary pack you must install it together with UVG if you don t install it UVG is not able to encode any videos to flv or mp4 format for further information about the binary pack please refer to Installation guide chapter To interact with the binary pack Network Service account must have EXECUTE pe
39. e can be set by Redirection Tab in UVG Configurations module Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 47 of 80 Biz Mochuiless Video player customization UVG_ Player module is used to play flv and mp4 videos the typical appearance of this module look like this babydance_0002 rr gg 0 a a G Similar to Ultra Media Gallery you can change colors text size and behaviors of this player click Module Settings in module menu to enter the settings screen Video Player Appereance Settings Player Size x Gallery Background T Alpha Player Background a Alpha Item Background aq Item Background Alpha Item Size _ Jx Video Series Border Color When Hover a Border Of Current Item T Font Size 13 Auto Adjust Width Background Color a Color Of Played Part 1BB91A Play Progress Bar eee as _ Unlike UVG 2 there are 2 size options in the top of the appearance settings screen Gallery Size is the size of the entire flash player player size is the size of the video area when set player size smaller than gallery size you can display a Background commercial in the gallery stage refer to Commercial amp Advertisement chapter for further information Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 48 of 80 Biz Mock les Ultra Video Gallery 4 If you don t use Background commercial you can set player size equals to gallery size For all color fields you can directly enter the color hex value or click the color blo
40. e refer to Wikipedia It still need a few years for this tag to be fully accepted but the latest version of most modern browsers support it in some manner the problem now is some browser support this tag but require the video to be in H264 while others requires it to be in OGG format UVG allows you to use html 5 lt video gt tag to replace traditional UVG video player in DesktopModules UltraVideoGallery Texts folder you can find a text file Html5UserAgents txt if you open it you will see below text iPhone iPad The meaning of this file is when the client use iPhone and iPad browser to visit your website UVG automatically switch to lt video gt tag because Flash plugin is not supported by iPhone iPad If you like you can use lt video gt tag for more browsers but you need to make sure that browser support lt video gt tag and videos in H264 format For example if you know that browser A fully support it you can make a new line in Html5UserAgents txt write down the name of the browser A in this line Save changes and restart your website then you can try to visit your website with browser A to see what happens Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 63 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Integrate with Amazon S3 Amazon S3 Simple Storage Service is an online storage service offered by Amazon Amazon S3 provides unlimited storage through a simple web services interface Data can be easily stored a
41. eee Te ee ee ea F Ultra Video Gallery 4 UVG MySeries module can be used to manage your own video serieses you can place it on a dedicated page or together with your UVG_MyVideos module New Series Play Edit Sear Added 1 10 2009 5 01 29PM Videos Category lt Al categorias Broadcast Public Series created in web form Pay Edt Added 1 10 2009 4 55 49 PM Videos Broadcast Pubic Free style swiming Pay Edt Added 10 24 2008 10 44 46 AM Videos 2 Broadcast Pubic Views 0 Free videos Pay Edt Added 10 6 2008 2 28 29 PM Broadcast Public 1 Click Edit button to edit an existing series you will see this screen Edit Series Series Tithe Free style swiming AAAA Category _ lt None Specfied gt Update Delete video title goes here Play Added 1 9 2009 11 08 04 PM Time 04 26 Raw file dnn450 Views 0 1199100 Play Added 1 9 2009 11 20 09 PM Time 03 13 Raw file dnn4S0 Views 0 Detach al You can detach specific or all videos from this series or use arrow buttons to adjust sort order When watch a video in series UVG load other videos in this series together with the selected video you can find a button to watch each of them in the bottom of UVG video player like below screenshot Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 35 of 80 Roeremeeees avid Ger I oo 04 0040 0 720p mi Biofuel Oasis 02 00 UVG_ FreeSeriesList Similar
42. embed code if you have some basic HTML skills you can use HTML lt OBJ ECT gt tag to embed a flash movie swf however this may be hard to use in UVG 3 you can directly upload a flash movie in UVG_ AddVideo module In the last of step of UVG Configuration Wizard you can select mpe mpeg Mmpg allowed file formats since flash movie doesn t need to be encoded to flv format you can select swf no matter you pass the permission rmvb wiswf wm check or not vob Ensure swf is in your allowed list select Upload a video from my local computer in UVG _ AddVideo module and upload your swf it will be accepted by UVG but it won t have a screenshot One thing you should remember is UVG saves your swf on server disk and generate a piece of html code to embed it if you try to edit it after upload you will see it is actually an embedded video When you watch it you won t see UVG video player UVG just directly output its embed code Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 74 of 80 Biz Mudules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Video player frame Before reading this chapter please be aware video player frame is implemented by Background commercial so it works in UVG Professional Edition only for further information please refer to Commercial amp Advertisement chapter UVG allows you to create a frame to warp your video player at first let s see an example Flower High Definition video in TS format Bizmodules net BizModules n
43. ents amp Response p AR E great pengtsen 5 minutes ago Reply A default avatar is displayed for this user actually it can be integrated with your profile module so the avatar of this user in your profile module is displayed rather than the default picture Please note this works for registered users only for comments posted by anonymous users even he passed the captcha validation UVG is not able to get his avatar Currently these profile modules are supported Active Forums Active Social Smart Thinker Profile DNN Forum If you use Active Forums please copy below text to Profile Provider Type textbox in UVG Configurations module BizModules UltraVideoGallery Profile ActiveForums BizModules UltraVideoGallery ActiveForumsProfileProvider The type string for Smart Thinker profie is BizModules UltraVideoGallery Profile SmartThinkerProfile BizModules UltraVideoGallery SmartThinkerProfileProvider The type string for DNN Forum is BizModules UltraVideoGallery Profile DNNForum BizModules UltraVideoGallery DNNForumProfileProvider If you use DNN Forum an additional Module ID should be specified which is the id of your forum module Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 54 of 80 Biz S Piciich les Ultra Video Gallery 4 UVG is also able to retrieve avatar from Active Social but the profile provider is not included in the public PA to use it please first download the profile provider here an
44. eos you plan to upload have same or similar resolution you can use this option 2 Dynamic Use a dynamic bitrate determined by the video resolution the bitrate attribute must be a valid small number when set it to 2 UVG encode videos at 1440 1080 2 3 110 kbps if video size is 1440 x 1080 and encode videos at 960 720 2 1 382 kbps when video size is 960 x 720 however when video size is smaller than 640p UVG automatically increase this value up to 50 percent to ensure video quality For mpg node it defaults to Dynamic while bitrate is set to 10 this is pretty a large value because we need it to make it clear enough for final H264 encoding The default setting for mp4 and mp4 baseline nodes are Dynamic mode too yet bitrate values defaults to 2 we suggest you to keep this value between 1 5 3 It won t take effect immediately after making changes to bitratemanager xml in UVG you should click Restart Application in Host gt Host Settings in UVG Converter you should quit and run it again Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 62 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Tips amp tricks Html 5 lt video gt tag Adobe Flash plugin is the most popular choice to deliver video contents on internet in past decade the major reasons are wide availability and cross platform however an alternative solution is introuduced in the draft of Html 5 standard the new lt video gt tag for further information about it pleas
45. es ad oles a o sls ess oa Deore es ee ee im m y m e f POCOS MODE MLA Oe j Prec OC DRS LO Ae ee CEA 2 CANN im d My search tab is Search Result w a aie r ATER A T Aree ee mady i er cr mim mm fror Soe Leys LPs FOOLS MOODLE TL Of OaE OT NE tal Ll Get user avatar from Active Forums C Active Social O Smart Thinker Profile C DNN Forum When choose DNN Forum in above list enter the Module ID of the forum instance 392 Amazon 53 Integraton Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Configuration Wizard Preuninstall Update Page 23 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 The Player Tab dictates the tab to be directed when click a video in video listing modules which must host a UVG Player module The Listing Tab dictates the tab to be directed when click a category in UVG_CategoryList which must include a UVG_VideoList module The Search Results Tab dictates the tab to be directed when user submit a search in UVG _ SearchInput or click a Tagin UVG TagList This tab must include a UVG VideoList module In UVG ActiveUsers UVG VideoComments and UVG MediaCenter module an avatar of a user can be displayed together with the user name the avatar can be retrieved from your profile modules for further discussion please refer to Rating and comment chapter Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 24 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Add videos Basically UVG allows you to add videos in 5 ways
46. et offers qualified DH modules and service It looks like this video is being played in a Sony Bravia TV to implement it on your site please follow below steps Prepare frame picture At first you should prepare your frame picture the bravia example in above screenshot can be located in Desktopmodules UltraVideoGallery images BRAVIA W4000 Series 1 jpg you can refer to it and create your own frame The frame picture must be symmetrical in horizontal direction because UVG always align the video content in the center of the stage horizontally Setup background commercial Secondly you should setup a new background commercial in UVG_ Commercial module enter your frame picture url in File Url textbox if you want to use this frame for ever you should set it to be Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 75 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 never expire One thing you should remember is since the frame commercial need to be picked everytime you can t use any other Background commercials Configure UVG video player At last you should run Module Settings in UVG Player to adjust video player size if you use the sample bravia picture you should set gallery size to 583 x 430 which is the size of the picture then manage to find out the size of the TV screen area 536 x 302 since the control bar in UVG video player takes 25 pixels of height you should set player size to 536 x 277 you also can set player size
47. eview video submissions and approve reject them It s suggested that all UVG tabs are placed under a root level parent tab on your website The parent tab can also be used as the video list tab the benefit is that users can see video listings by simply click on a root level menu item however you also can make the parent tab as an empty stub and place your video list tab under it Please note the video player tab must be hidden users should pick a video in video listings to enter the video player tab if the user enter video player tab directly Ultra Video Gallery doesn t know what to play in this case the default video is loaded if you want to replace or remove the default video just simply change or delete Desktopmodules UltraVideoGallery FirstRun flv Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 15 of 80 Biz Mochilers Ultra Video Gallery 4 Hello world Now let s create a sample Hello world video to demonstrate how to use this product in the simplest manner We assume you already read and done necessary works described in previous chapter now please navigate to your Add Videos tab the add video wizard appears Video Serie Add video wizard step 1 of 3 This video doesn t belong to a video series Create a new video series to include this video Append this video to a recently used video series We choose This video doesn t belong to a video series and press continue Video Source Add video wi
48. good news is it is not critical UVG displays a message saying Please wait while we upload your file instead of the graphical progress bar If your website run in Full trust a graphical progress bar is displayed while uploading The current trust level can be seen in configuration wizard this wizard can help you to configure UVG to ensure all features works properly so you must finish it before adding any videos Fully UVG Supported Hosting In most case you don t need to choose a special hosting company to run Ultra Video Gallery the existence of UVG Converter ensures every body can use this product even you don t pass the permission check however if you do want to use UVG it self to do online video encoding you may consider to move your website to a fully UVG supported hosting company click here to see our recommendations Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 8 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Installation guide The installation file of Ultra Video Gallery contains 2 parts standard module PA Private Assembly and binary pack file You can install module PA as normal DNN modules just login with Host account navigate to the Host menu item and click on the Module Definition and then click on the Install New Module from the drop down menu to continue installation and the following screen appears i z Install New Module Pe W Install New Module sA Re
49. guration screen Below is the ist step of the configuration wizard Configuration Wizard Permission Check Ultra Video Gallery need to check your server permisison set to determine whether you can upload videos in non fly format ASP NET Trust Level Medium Run permission check Next step In this step you must run permission check to see whether your server is qualified for online video encoding if this permisison is not available UVG only allows you to add flv video mp3 audio flash movie swf or add video from internet however you can use UVG Converter instead to add videos in non flv format Click Run permission check button and you get this message if you pass it Successfully passed permission check now you can upload videos in any format If the binary pack is not installed or it can t be reached you get this message The binary pack is not installed or Network Service account doesn t have necessary permissions to access it you are not able to upload any non flv videos now Otherwise you get this message Permission check failed you are not able to upload any non flv videos now Generally this means Network Service account doesn t have Execute permission on DekstopModules UltraVideoGallery Binaries folder For further information please refer to Installation guide chapter in the User Guide If you have full access to your server and can alter server permissions you can follow this instruction to make ap
50. hat actually happen is this video is convered to an embedded video before saving if you go back to UVG VideoList and watch the video just added you will see it s being played in Youtube s video player To change the appearance of the youtube video player goto Youtube tab in UVG_ Configurations module Video Encoding Permissions Tab amp Profile Youtube Other Options About Authorized users can add videos from youtube when add with from internet url option UVG will convert it to an embeded video use below options to dictate the appearance of the embeded youtube player Player Size 400 x 300 M Center it Menu bars color 148514 Border color EiNEpS W Show border Play Ho El Loop Auto play Include related videos V Apply to youtube videos added with from embed code option too Update Existing Youtube Videos You can change the size of the player color scheme and buttons to use the changes will be applied to any new added youtube video or you can use the button at bottom to update existing videos Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 28 of 80 Biz Mochwiles Ultra Video Gallery 4 In default above conversion only apply to Youtube videos added with from internet URL option you also can apply it to youtube videos added with from embed code option so all videos on your website can have unique appearance To do this simply make sure below option is checked in UVG C
51. her Options Update Ultra Video Gallery 4 About You can choose which roles are allowed to add videos in this portal these users also can edit their own videos through UVG_MyVideos module You also can dictate which users are able to manage all videos a user with this permission is able to edit delete any videos within this portal and Approve Reject pending items if moderation is enabled View permission allows you to set the permission to watch a video the permission can either be set on category level or video level In default a user is able to see videos which he donot have view permission in UVG_ VideoList module but he will receive notifications about insufficient permission when try to watch it You can optionally check the option to remove videos without permission in UVG_ VideoList But please note this brings performance decrease since UVG have to analyze each video Please note videos without permission will always be visible in UVG_FreeVideoList module Tab Locations amp Profile Provider UVG is a site wide application some modules need to know where other modules are so they can interact in Tab amp Profile tab you can see these options Other Options Tab amp Profile Youtube Video Encoding Permissions My player tab is Player L VideoSapyer module must be placed on the tab LVG Gy hnr lt E i DiS m CEJN Y My listing tab is List AT oe ato i La i Prr F
52. ing this chapter please be ware only UVG Professional Edition supports H264 encoding if you have UVG Standard Edition you can use FLV encoding only H264 eocoded videos are saved in mp4 format to playback this kind of video you must ensure your IIS must support mp4 mime type This is a must do job if you use IIS 7 Below is a screenshot of all related options in UVG Configurations module Video Encoding Permissions Tab amp Profile Youtube i UWG is able to generate a low and high quality version for each uploaded video Encode low quality version ta FLV Y format max size 480 x Encode high quality version to FLV format max size HD720P 1280 x H264 main profile UVG captures a screenshot for H654 oor a ae Disabled When upload videos with mp4 extension Encode it again Check your mp4 are not encoded in H264 maximum resolution is 150 x We recommend you to configure it in this way UVG Standard UVG Professional UVG Professional Supports iPhone iPad Low quality version FLV H264 main profile H264 baseline profile High quality version H264 main profile H264 main profile Generally you need to make the size of the low quality version smaller than the high quality version a typical setting may be 480 x for low quality version while 720p for high quality videos When watch a video which have both low and high quality version a quality selection button will be displayed
53. itation or max impression number it s stopped by UVG and Status the status is changed to Finished in UVG Commercial module _ Finished You can click Archive button in UVG Commercial module to archive a finished item related database records are deleted and a CSV report is generated by UVG which includes the impression and click history of this commercial you can send this report to Archive your advertiser to show there is no fraud Impresssons 192 Clicks 0 In default UVG always pick commercials if there is active item when watch a video this can be changed to sometimes e g only pick commercials for X times in Y video watches This feature is supported by UVG but not offered as a setting option Locate UVG_CommercialPick stored procedure in your database this procedure looks like this ALTER procedure dbo UVG_Commercial Pick Category Id int Maz int AS The probability to pick a commercial a 100 DECLARE PickProbability int set PickProbability 100 Varibles below should not be changed You can change the probability by directly changing PickProbability variable Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 58 of 80 Biz Mochiles Ultra Video Gallery 4 Video encoding UVG 4 comes with a new developed video encoding engire which generates H264 videos in much better quality and less file size It s now possible to deliver real high definition 720p and even 1080p videos in UVG 4 Before read
54. lete related files so it doesn t waste your disk space If you have more than 1 portals in your DNN installation videos in different portals can be transferred to different buckets on amazon to configure this you should run Amazon S3 Integration wizard in each of your portal CloudFront support Have you ever experienced this situation Your web server is hosted in a data center in the US visitors from north amercia can watch your video content fluently but peoples from other continents may continuously buffer and buffer Amazon CloudFront service allows you to delivery large amount of data to visitors around the world with a global network when the visitor comes from the US a server in north america will serve the request when the visitor comes from Japan a server in Tokyo will serve the request when the visitor comes from Berlin or London a Europe server will serve the request so you can expect to deliver your video content to global users as fast as possible For further information please refer to Amazon Especially you shoud read the Getting Started Guide to know how to manage CloudFront distributions CloudFront integration is available in UVG since 3 0 5 to use it is quite simple at first use CloudFront Manager to create a distribution for your bucket you ll get a distribution name Then locate DesktopModules UltraVideoGallery Texts CloudFront txt on your website open it with a text editor simply map your bucket name
55. ll UVG the access key related settings can be done in UVG_ Configurations module Video Encoding Permissions Tab amp Profile Youtube Other Options About E Login before reporting a video as inappropriate Login before rating a video E videos posted by normal users need to be approved w Notify moderators when there is a video pending for approval F Upload quota applied Erioa wah active social 1 8 my access key ts f413a541 081f 4739 af6b fo36bfcoOe Save 5 latest watched videos in client cookie UVG is able to create animated GIF screenshots for uploaded videos the maximum frames is 5 bd Then once a new video is added you can see it in active social like this ActiveSocial All items September 21 Grou ps Created sample video added to UVG 4 x amp Groups Joined A an hour ago Read Comment Read More E Forum Topics Y Forum Renlies Notify StoryFeed when add a video Simiar to active social integration UVG is able to notiry SmartThinker StoryFeed when a new video is added The setting option is right above active social integration Integrate with profile modules There are numerous user profile modules in the market since I only have a trial version of Smart Thinker s profile module let me demonstrate how to integrate UVG with it it should be Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 67 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 similar if you use other products Smart Thinke
56. m When record videos limit camera size to 480 x 270 Widescreen Y keep video quality to 85 Y Amazon 53 Integration Configuration Wizard Preuninstall Update Video Encoding The 1st section is video encoding strategy UVG is able to encode a low and high quality version for each video uploaded if your UVG is professional edition you can choose all 3 types of encoding otherwise you can choose FLV encoding only H264 encoding creates videos with much better quality and samller file size so we suggest you to use H264 for both low and high quality version if you use UVG professional edition If you use UVG standard edition you can use FLV for both low and high quality version but use different video size for example use 320 x for low quality version and use 640 x for high quality version In above screenshot you can see both H264 baseline profile and H264 main profile are available for selection refer to Wikipedia if you don t know what is it Basically the baseline profile works on smart phones like iPhone or iPad so if you would like to deliver videos to iPhone iPad users we suggest you to use H264 baseline profile for low quality version while use main profile for high quality version Please remember the max video size for baseline profile is 640 480 while the max size of main profile is unlimted you can choose 1280 x to deliver HD 720p videos or manually alter ConfigurationsNormal ascx to support 1080p
57. modules net 2007 2010 Page 51 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Video search UVG implemented the standard ISearchAble interface provided by DNN core so you can search videos from standard DNN search form besides that there is a dedicated search module in UVG which can be used to search videos in a more effective way To implement UVG own search functionality you should specify the Search Results Tab in UVG Configurations module at first A UVG_ VideoList module must be placed in this page which is used to show search results If you don t have a dedicated search results tab you can use your Video List page instead Then you should place a UVG SearchInput module somewhere in Module Settings there is an option to run this module in compact mode se al oa 29007 When submit a new search UVG search specified jiii imc keyword in video tag video title and video description UVG_ SearchInput El Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 52 of 80 Biz Mochiles Ultra Video Gallery 4 Rating and comment UVG_ VideoComments and UVG_ VideoRating are sub modules of UVG_VideoPlayer they are used to rate video and post video comments In default all visitors can post rating and comment if you want to limit anonymous users from rating a video please enable Login before rating a video option in UVG Configurations module For each individual user only 1 rating but multiple comments can be posted to single vide
58. n enter the URL of the server side application in UVG_ Configurations module it should be something like this The server URL of my Flash Media Server is rimp 192 168 1 1 1935 uvg YOU can use it to record videos with webcam When record videos limit camera size to 460 x 270 Widescreen keep video quality to 85 If your FMS doesn t run in default 1935 port you can change it or just leave the port number blank Another thing to notice is the 1935 port or other ports used by your FMS must be allowed in your firewall otherwise UVG is not able to connect After all settings above you will have the record option in the 2 step of UVG_AddVideo module Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 39 of 80 Biz Mochuless Video Source Add video wizard step 2 of 3 C Upload a video from my local computer Record a video with my webcam and microphone E Add a video from an internet url or Youtube 0 Add a video or other media from a piece of html code Your computer doesnot have a webcam Video OK Duration 0 00 00 Series This video doesn t belong to a video series Above message is shown when you donot have a webcam if webcam is available you will be able to use the red REC button to record a video once finished click the stop button and finally click the Publish button to publish it to UVG your video will not be saved if not published Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 40 of 80 Biz Modules Com
59. n find those options When click Module Settings from UVG_CategoryList s module menu this screen appears Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 30 of 80 Biz Mochiles Ultra Video Gallery 4 Module Settings Columns lt table gt lt gt lt td class Normal EDITLINK lt td gt lt td class Normal gt lt a Html Body href CATEGORYLINK CATEGORYTITLE lt a gt VIDEOCOUNT videos lt td gt lt tr gt lt table gt L Show all categories even no view permission Update Cancel Enter a value bigger than 1if you want to display multiple categories in single line The display template of this module can be adjusted in html body section below tokens can be used to represent specific data CATEGORYTITLE the name of your category VIDEOCOUNT number of videos in this category CATEGORYLINK the link to UVG VideoList module EDITLINK the link to edit it For example use VIDEOCOUNT token to show the number of videos in each category UVG_CategoryList E Action videos E3 Comedy 1 videos E Broadcast 1 videos 6 0 History 2 videos E Comedy 0 videos 2 Selftaken Clip 2 videos add Category When click a category UVG navigate to Listing Tab set in UVG Configurations which should contain a UVG VideoList module in most case your expected behavior is to show videos in selected category only but it doesn t work in this way in default you should click Module Setti
60. n past X Page Sie 10 we days 5 Videos Per Row wr i tA Most Popular List most pogulan view times comment times First List Type rating score total ratings videos created in past X days Category lt Set by querystring Most Viewed Let most viewed videos created in past X days EF Play in Lightbox F yi i i im w Recent Video Let videos by created date with dasanding order O Top Rated List highest rated videos created in past X days Second List Type Most Decused Third List Type Mast Pogular kd Fouth List Type Most Viewed ye Fifth List Type Top Rated Display Template lt table gt A is j single video lt td gt lt a href LINK gt lt img border 0 Only the 1st list type is necessary all others are optional Display Template can be used to customize layout and appearance of your video items available tokens can be found in the end of this chapter Please note videos in a series and not in a series can have different display templates Default Timeline can be either Today This Week This Month or All Time when set to Today UVG only list videos created in past 24 hours in default Category option is used to set the scope of videos you can set it to all categories specific category or the category set by querystring Assume you setup 4 list types page size to 6 and default time to All Time below is a typical output of this module Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 42 of
61. n this case please set maxNormalRequestLength to a value greater than xxxxxxx The video upload progress bar in UVG is provided by a modified version of NeatUpload which is covered by the Lesser General Public License click here to download our modified source code for this assembly Here you can alter the file size limitation when upload new videos you can leave it blank to disable this limitation if your website run under Medium Trust this option is disabled Regarding to file size limitation a new configuration node is required in IIS 7 to allow file uploads larger than 30MB if you use IIS 7 please read this post Now press the Finish button to exit the wizard and the normal configurations screen appears Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 21 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 UVG_Configurations El Video Encoding Tab amp Profile Other Options About UVG is able to generate a low and high quality version for each uploaded video Encode low quality version to FLV format max sie 480 x Encode high quality version to FLV format max size HD720P 1280x H264 main profile UVG captures a screenshot fori i564 baseline profile maximum resolution is 150 Kai Disabled When upload videos with mp4 extension C Encode it again Check your mp4 are not encoded in H26 The server URL of my Flash Media Server is rimp 127 0 0 1 1935 uvg YOu can use it to record videos with webca
62. nd retrieved at any time from anywhere on the web Amazon charges in proportion to the amount of data stored and applies charges for sending and receiving data for further information please refer to Amazon com Amazon s3 is an ideal choice if you have several GBs of data on your website band width is becoming more and more expensive today most hosting providers requires you to buy a predefined disk space and bandwidth usage for data transfer if you buy 1GB disk space and 10GB data transfer from your hosting company you pay full price even if you only use 1 Amazon s3 is different it doesn t require you to buy a fixed disk space and data transfer just use it as you like you only pay for what you use Since version 2 2 UVG is integrated with Amazon s3 you can benefit from it by going through our S3 integration wizard Now click Amazon S3 Integration in UVG Configurations module you get a 4 step wizard like this Olsecetacestey step 1 tt L Bucket pengtsenr Ladd Bucket Oo L Remove tt L Batch Quantity 10 L Short Url Lli Yes Step 3 L The scheduler to upload local videos to amazon s3 server is not installed click Finish button to install it Step 4 In the ist step you should provide your amazon access key if you don t have one please login to Amazon com and sign up for simple storage service then you will have a pair of key id and secret key In the 2nd step you should c
63. ngs from UVG VideoList s module menu and ensure Category option is set to set by querystring Other Options Default Timeline All Time Videos Per Row Category lt Set by querystring Ea Foucation After this change UVG_VideoList module still display videos in all categories in default but as long as a category is selected in UVG_CategoryList module only videos in this category are displayed Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 31 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Work with tags Tag is keywords which best describe your video in the last step of add video wizard you can see a text box to enter tags Tags Tags are keywords which best describe your video separated by space You can use a space to separate 2 tags if your tag contains spaces you should replace it to Space for example your video contains 2 tags one is Ultra Video Gallery another one is Demo you should write it in this way Ultra Video Gallery Demo The UVG TagList module displays tag cloud on your website UVG_ TagList HI aaa abc acb baa bba lexus2 test ke Ba WEH Fo Eyk dest Tags are sorted alphabetically the color and size of a tag is determined by its popularity You can customize TagCloudLevel1 TagCloudLevel4 in module css if you want to change its look and fell In Module Settings screen of UVG TagList you can change its display template these tokens are available in body template
64. o In UVG video player if a video doesn t belong to a video series and it have common tags with some other videos related videos screen appears when reach the end of this video rate this video good gt oo o0 o0 02 A wel Te E A rating form is available in the flash player this promote participations of your site visitors so it will definitely promote your website However if you don t like it you can disable Show rating form in related videos screen option in Module Settings so the traditional Replay and Share buttons are displayed instead e q a share video play again watch more videos lofi UVG_VideoComments module supports Captcha validation which ensures the one who post video comment is human when you watch a video as a anonymous user you can see the captcha control Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 53 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Y Post Your Comment Email Ooo required hidden Comment Security code TUNERS Enter the code shown above Post Comment You must enter your name email comment and security code to post a comment once you pass the captcha validation UVG won t require you to validate again during your session you will find the captcha control is hidden your name and email are filled in corresponding textboxes automatically when you watch another video Existing comments are displayed in UVG_VideoComments module like this Comm
65. o host videos in DotNetNuke since 2007 What can Ultra Video Gallery do Allow site users to add new videos in some case you add videos by your self but in community websites you allow your site users to add videos UVG works in both situations the configuration module can be used to set which roles are allowed to add new items Encode uploaded videos for internet usage similar to Youtube UVG allows you to upload videos in any popular formats below you can find an incomplete list once a video is uploaded UVG encode it to Flash Video flv format or MP4 format with H264 encoding both formats are specially designed for internet usage with a good balance of video quality and bandwidth cost Play videos in flash video player after video encoding all videos can be played in our integrated flash video player the video player is a group of modules which allows you to watch the video rate it comment it share it etc Below is an incomplete list of supported formats Sis Microsoft WMV 12 3 M i peg 2 encoded DVD video j E Windows wmv wm asf vibe Mpg vob Media Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 2 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Real Media Mpeg 1 2 Creal MPEG rm rmvb mpg mpeg mpe Apple Quicktime Th Mobile phone video format ole eee 4 Diii MOV si 3gp 392 DivX XVID Motion J peg Apple Sony mp4 Divo avi mp4 m4v UVG video player shares color scheme and layou
66. odule in UVG 4 you no longer need the Video List and Video Player tab for further information please refer to Media Center chapter Ultra Video Gallery includes multiple sub modules after installation you should create some tabs to organize them typically we recommend you to build your website with at least these tabs Configurations at first you must create a configurations tab and place UVG Configurations module on this tab to do global configuration this tab should be open to admin users only Add Videos secondly you should have an Add Videos tab and place UVG_AddVideo module on it so users can add new videos through it this tab should be open to public users if you allow all site users to add videos Video List thirdly you must have a video list tab UVG_VideoList module must be placed on this tab to provide a major entry to browse all videos you also can place UVG CategoryList and UVG TagList module on this tab so users can filter videos be categories and tags Below is a typical video list page a ie DOTNETNUKE hiipi www deineinuke com Home Add Video Player Category Config List Freelist MySeres MyVideos Commerical Profile Active UVG_CategoryList UVG_VideoList Business Recent Videos Most Discussed Most Popubr Most viewed Education 01 02 eee Added 23 hours age Sports E FromeSuperUser Account a Comments Views gemte Socal UWG FreeVicheoList 31811_1274471 03 50
67. onfigurations module Apply to youtube videos added with from embed code option too Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 29 of 80 Biz Mocwiles Ultra Video Gallery 4 Work with category The UVG_CategoryList module can be used to manage video categories and display a category list it looks like this UVG_CategoryList J Add pategory I gt comedy 1 videos Module Settings History 2 videos Quick Load Categories f Selftaken Clip 2 videos Help ie P add Category Print Settings Delete f Discussed Move e i Z noe COON 0 0 seconds Click Add Category to add a new category like this Edit Category Parent This category have no parent P Category View Order Player Tab lt None Specified gt Listing Tab None Specified gt Update Cancel The View Order field is used to sort categories you can enter a free text like A or 1 please note 1 gt 0 A gt AA gt AB gt B You can put your category in root level or under another category but please note the UVG CategoryList module only list videos that doesnot belong to any parent category if you want to get a category tree use UVG_CategoryListNested module instead Do you remember the Player Tab and List tab option in UVG Configurations module These 2 options affects all videos in your portal however you can setup a dedicated player tab and list tab for specific video category In above screenshot you ca
68. opyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 71 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Localization guide UVG support complete localization to localize it please follow these steps Localize language resource file for net controls like other DNN modules the language resources for net controls are saved in App LocalResources folder please refer to DotNetNuke manual for detailed information about how to localize them Localize language resource file for flash player in DekstopModules UltraVideoGallery Swf Resource folder you can find a xml file named uvg swi xml this file is the resource file used by our flash player please make a copy it and rename the copied version to uvg swf lt your locale gt xml for example if you use German you should rename it to uvg swf de DE xml then open this file in an xml or text editor you can find a lot of key value pairs just translate all values to your own language Localize javascript library in DekstopModules UltraVideoGallery Scripts folder you can find UploadProgress js this is the javascript used to display the file upload progress please make a copy of it append your locale to its file name like UploadProgress de DE js then edit it with a text editor you can see some text strings are defined as variants in the top of the file just translate them to your own language is ok Having localized UVG you can find a button to share your work in UVG__ Configurations module
69. ort options UVG_FreeVideoList This module renders an incomplete video list you can use it to create latest videos module most popular videos module and more You also can use it together with profile modules Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 3 of 80 Biz Modules 10 11 14 15 16 17 18 19 Ultra Video Gallery 4 UVG_ MediaCenter This brand new module in UVG 4 allows you to list watch rate and comment videos in a single module UVG_MySeries This module allows current logged in user to manage his own video series UVG_ MyVideos This module allows current logged in user to manage his own videos UVG_PendingVideos If you enable video approval new videos appears in this module video managers can approve or reject pending items UVG_SearchInput This module allows you to search videos with a given keyword UVG_ TagList This module displays tag cloud you can click a tag to see all videos with it UVG_ VideoList The major video listing module in UVG you can define up to 5 criterias so your visitors can easily browse it UVG_VideoPlayer This is not a real module in DNN terminology it is a Module Definition 5 sub modules are included in this definition because they must be used together a UVG Player All videos are played in this module color schemes and layouts can be adjusted in module settings you should not be strange with this if you used Ultra Media Gallery before
70. pact player Ultra Video Gallery 4 Some video websites have a player on their homepage playing their promoted video this feature is also supported in UVG 3 Add UVG_CompactPlayer module to a page this module looks like UVG Player but it s smaller and no unnecessary controls Click Module Settings to configure it Module Settings Player Width 320 Player Height 250 Video Source Fred Dynamic Video Test Test Video Test Video Fixed Dynamic The video source option dictates what video to play it can be a fixed video or a dynamic video when choose fixed video you can enter your video name with auto complete When choose Dynamic video option you can choose most viewed video most popular top rated etc Condition Most Discussed Timeline a month Category lt All categories gt Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 41 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Work with video listing modules In UVG 3 only 2 modules can be used to generate video listings UVG Videolist UVG FreeVideoList UVG _ VideoList is the major video listing module we ve discussed it many times in former chapters this module allows you to order videos by up to 5 criterias now let s check its settings screen List Type Other Options Featured List featured videos by featured date Default Timeline Al Time i Most Discussed List most commented videos created i
71. propriate changes before continue Now let s go to next step in this step Ultra Video Gallery require you to make necessary changes to your web config Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 19 of 80 Biz Mochiles Ultra Video Gallery 4 Configuration Wizard Web Config update Update your web config before you can use all features of this product Click Update button to proceed a backup of your web config is created in site root in next step UVG tells you the correct procedures to uninstall this product be sure you know what to do before continue Configuration Wizard Flv Mime Type Please help me to detect whether fv mime type is available on your server There is a embeded video player in the right side check the options below until you can see a sample video in tt like this If both option works check the 1st one for better performance Fly mime type is supported Fl mime type is not supported ogo 00 02 sell Te W In this step please help Ultra Video Gallery to detect whether FLV mime type is enabled on your web server please note this step only handles flv mime type if you use H264 encoding please make sure your IIS support mp4 mime type under default IIS 7 settings mp4 mime type is not Supported Click a radio box in left and go to next step Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 20 of 80 Biz Mochiles Ultra Video Gallery 4 Configuration Wizard Allowed Formats
72. pter for details Reactivate UVG with your original serial number You can find an activation link when add a new video Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 11 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Uninstallation guide Please be aware that once you uninstall this product all data you entered are lost and there isn t any opportunity to recover them so please make appropriate backups before uninstallation if necessary To uninstall this product please first navigate to UVG_ Configurations module at the bottom of this module you can see Preuninstall button click this button to roll back changes UVG made to your web config during configuration wizard then you can safely uninstall this product In order to uninstall it Navigate to the Host menu item and click on the Module Definitions scroll to the bottom of the module list you can see 10 definitions with the prefix of UVG_ just click P button before each of them and then dick Hninstall button Sometimes you are not intend to uninstall this product permanently what you need is just a fresh installation of this product but it may take quite a long time to uninstall all sub modules In this case it is suggested to uninstall UVG_AddVideo only because all database objects are linked with this module so reinstallation of UVG AddVideo equals reinstallation of UVG In typical DNN uninstallation process there isn t a chance to delete related files in File
73. r Profile module allows you to build a user directory when click a user in the directory you can see the profile of this user The URL of the user directory page looks like this http localhost dnn450 userdirectory tabid 63 default aspx The URL of a typical user profile looks like this http localhost dnn450 userdirectory tabid 64 id 2 default aspx id 2 is the parameter used by this profile module to pass user id now I would like to link the video author in UVG_VideoInformation module to its profile when watch a video The output of UVG VideoInformation is fully determined by display template located in DesktopModules UltraVideoGallery Texts VideoInformation txt open this file you can find this tag AVATAR 50 This tag will be replaced by the avatar of the video author in run time with the max width of 50 now you can change it to lt a href dnn450 userdirectory tabid 64 id AUTHORID default aspx gt AVATAR 50 lt a gt Save changes and watch a video again now you can click the avatar to see this user s profile Integrate with Active Forums When you browse a thread in Active Forums you can click one s name to see his profile the url looks like this http localhost dnn450 Support tabid 55 view profile uid 1 Default aspx As you can see this product use uid parameter to pass user id now I would like to create a link to user profiles in UVG_VideoList module Click Module Set
74. reate a bucket to store your files in the simplest manner you can consider bucket as internet domains all of your files can be accessed as http bucket name s3 amazonaws com file path please note bucket name is unique across all of Amazon S3 so you won t succeed if you use common words as your bucket name Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 64 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 In the 3rd step you can adjust batch quantity if necessary in default UVG transfer only 10 videos to Amazon each time In the 4th step UVG informs you the scheduler is not installed and you can install it by clicking the Finish button once installed you can find it in Host Schedule this task runs every 24 hours if you want to change its next start time for example to run in the midnight you can run this query in Host Sal databaseOwner objectQualifier UVG SetAWSOperationTime HOUR Hour is a integer value between 0 to 23 Having finished this wizard UVG takes the rest your videos screenshots will be transfered to Amazon every day once a video is successfully transfered it is deleted from your server hard disk It may take a few hours to tranfer a batch if your videos are big to know how many videos have been successfully transfered you can run this query in Host Sal Select count from databaseOwner HobjectQualifier UVG Video where AWS ThumbKey lt gt When you delete a video UVG contact amazon s3 server to de
75. rmission on Desktopmodules UltraVideoGallery Binaries folder if this permission is denied by your server configuration the online encoding will not work to check this permission please simply add UVG Configurations module to a page then you can see UVG Configuration Wizard below is a screenshot of the 1st step of this wizard Configuration Wizard Permission Check Ultra Video Gallery need to check your server permisison set to determine whether you can upload videos in non fly format ASP NET Trust Level Medium permission check Next step Click Run permission check button to check it if you don t pass it UVG only allows you to add flv videos mp3 audio and flash movie swf this doesn t mean you are not able to use UVG our client side application UVG Converter is specially designed to work in this case you can use it to encode videos on your local computer You are always able to add videos from an internet URL or embed code because it doesn t depend on the external process permission you can leave the binary pack alone if you only use internet videos ASP NET Trust Level Trust level is another restriction the most popular trust levels are Full Trust and Medium Trust If your website run in Medium trust you are likely not able to pass permission check mentioned Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 7 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 above besides the file upload progress bar doesn t work the
76. rnet connection and maybe 3 extra minutes to encode it the total time cost is 23 minutes however if you upload it by UVG Converter the source video is encoded to flv or and mp4 format before upload in most case flv video have much less size than the original video let s say the encoded flv video is only 20mb so it can be uploaded in only 5 minutes the total time cost is 5 3 8 minutes senes and Category Series Categor lt Not Specified gt In windows system when right click a file in resource manager you will see a menu to Add to right mouse menu perform common tasks with this file would ee in gt m der ir 4 hdl ita zai I z spe asters fi mais i you like to add a Upload by UVG Converter menu to supported video formats E UYG Options Silence mode When add a newsideo upload itte sbsite automatically This can be done right click UVG Converter ii ca lain laa icon and select Options Check Add to right _ Watch folder mouse menu and save changes then try to Watch this folder aulomaiically upload it when there is a video file right click a video file in resource Manager to Be aware that videos in this folder are DELETED once uploaded see what happens Save a yp eee a Copher fT a 21ei11i2 Elay Teenage i Upload by U E sa i VG Converter Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 79 of 80 Biz Mudules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Advanced features In Options screen
77. s Videogallery tabid 54 Categzoryld 2 Sports aspx The category is appended to address bar and window title Now click a video to watch it Ey Website gt Video Gallery gt Video Player Fight Kozilla Firefox File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help E Gt Qa B http 1ocalhost dnm4T0 Vi deoGallery Vi deoFLayer tabi A 55 Vi deoTa L1f Fight aspa You can see the video title is also appended to page title and aspx script name beside that in the html source you can found these meta tags lt meta id MetaDescription name DESCRIPTION content Fight between a man and a security guard gt lt meta id MetaKeywords name KEYWORDS content DotNetNuke DNN fight gt Words in red are video description and tags UVG automatically add them to the html output In default UVG adds video title to the end of the page title if this is not what you want you can change it by creating a customized template file To do this create VideoPlayerTitle txt in DesktopModules UltraVideoGallery Texts folder and use below tokens to template it CURRENTTITLE current page title VIDEOTITLE video title CATEGORY belonged category TABNAME current tab name PORTALNAME portal name For example you can write it in this way VIDEOTITLE CATEGORY TABNAME PORTALNAME With these optimizations you can expect to get a better search result on Google and other search engines C
78. string RATINGSTARS Display rating score with star icons DESCRIPTION X Left X characters in description These extra tokens are available for videos in series SERIESTITLE SERIESDESCRIPTION SERIESINDEX The index of this video in series SERIESVIDEOS Number of videos in this series Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 44 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Video moderation Video moderation is disabled in default if some of your videos are from untrusted users you may consider to enable this option In UVG Configurations module you can find these options C Need Approval Notify Moderators Checking Need Approval enables moderation process in your entire portal check Notify Moderators if you want to send an email to all video managers when there is a new video added and need to be approved Now please ensure both of them are checked then login as a normal user and try to add a new video in the last step of add video wizard you will get this message This video is not approved Unapproved video can be watched by your self but it doesn t appear in video lists so nobody else can see it Login as a video manager and check Video Approval page which contains a UVG_ PendingVideos module UVG_PendingVideos El Videos pending approval 3 Play From Test Account C Added 1 20 2009 10 36 0 Time Raw file 3 fiv Views 0 Series Category None BroadCast Public 1 Approve Reject
79. t with Ultra Media Gallery player So it is ideal to use both products on your website together and present similar user experience According to Adobe s report Flash Player is available on 99 1 computers on internet and UVG prompts your visitors to install it when unavailable so you can expect to safely deliver your video content to all visitors Ultra Video Gallery contains many sub modules amp applications below is a summary 1 UVG _ ActiveUsers This module displays a list of most active users in past specific days UVG_ AddVideo The main module of UVG you can add new videos from your local computer an internet URL a piece of html code or even from your webcam UVG_CategoryList This module allows you to manage and list video categories parent categories will be ignored in this module UVG_CategoryListNested Similar to above one but a category tree will be displayed if there are parent child categories UVG_ Commercial This module allows you to manage 4 kinds of commercials please note this module is available in both standard edition and professional edition but only in professional edition your commercials is played by UVG UVG_CompactPlayer This module allows you to play a fixed or dynamic video in a compact player interface UVG_ Configurations This module allows you to do global configurations UVG_FreeSeriesList Similar to UVG_FreeVideoList this module displays an incomplete series list with various s
80. tings in UVG_VideoList in the default display template you can find this text part From AUTHOR You just need to change it to From lt a href dnn450 tabid 55 view profile uid AUTHORID Default aspx gt AUTHOR lt a gt Then clicking author name in UVG_VideoList will take you to its profile Integrate with Private Messages Private Messages allows site users to send a message to another user in current portal it is a good idea to allow site visitors to directly send a message to the author of a video without exposing one s email address isn t it Let s see a typical url when send a private message http localhost dnn450 Inbox tabid 118 pmtype Compose SendTo 1 Default aspx Ok smart guys already found SendTo parameter is used to pass user id now you can go ahead to edit your display templates Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 68 of 80 Biz Mocwles Ultra Video Gallery 4 Integrate UVG in other modules UVG _FreeVideoList can be used together with other modules when you view ones profile you can see videos in UVG created by this user For example to integrate it with Smart Thinker profile module you should add UVG_ FreeVideoList to the user profile page ensure 1st list type is set to Profile Integration and 2nd list type is empty First List Type Profile integration Integrate with your profile modules user key in right side must be properly set Then you must ensure User Key is
81. to UVG FreeVideoList UVG FreeSeriesList module can be used to display series with various sort options below is a screenshot In the settings screen of this module you can define up to 2 list types below tokens can be used in the display template CATEGORY Category name Recent Seres Most Popular sees Test Series E 4 wdeos Poe Last update 31 minutes ago From Superlser Account Comments p i yawe g SERIESTITLE Series title Hew Series LINK The link to watch this series Last update 2 Tours ago SCREENSHOT The screenshot url of the ist video in i ans ei ig this series SCREENSHOTWIDTH The screenshot width set in UVG Configurations module VIEWS Number of views of all videos in this series COMMENTS Number of comments VIDEOCOUNT Number of videos in this series SERIESID AUTHORID AUTHOR Author display name AUTHOR USERNAME CREATEDAGO How long ago this series is created LASTUPDATEDATE The time when the last video is added to this series LASTUPDATEDATE Date Format Format last update date in specified format string LASTUPDATEAGO How long ago this series get the last video DESCRIPTION Series description DESCRIPTION X Left X characters in description Free style swiming 1 2 videos Last update 3 Weeks aga From Superlser Account m i Lanan e 0 i T A 0 ia z a Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 36 of 80 Biz Modules
82. turn Click on the Browse button to open the dialog window for locating the PA locate the module PA you downloaded and press Install New Module The installation begins and in short period of time the screen informing you successful completion is displayed Info Created BD wwwroot DNN470 DesktopModules UltraVideoGallery TagListEdit ascx Info Created Di wwwroot DNN470 DesktopModules UltraVideoGallery TagListSettings ascx Info Created D wwwroot DNN470 DesktopModules UltraVideoGallery RepeatedCssClasses txt Info Created D wwwroot DNN470 DesktopModules LltraVideoGallery UltraVideoGallery dnn config EndJob Files created StarJob Registering DesktopModule Info Registering Definitions Info Registering Controls EndjJob Registering finished EndJob Installation successful q Return In normal installation process you shouldn t see any red messages in this screen there must be some problems if you do get any red messages in this case please first ensure the module PA you downloaded is not corrupted for testing purpose you can try to open it in winzip another possible reason is windows Network Service account doesn t have write permission on your DNN folder you can try to install another module to see whether it report same error if so please contact your server administrator to correct permission misconfiguration If you still have trouble with it please send the
83. ur site url is incorrect you will get an empty portal list User name password are login credentials on your website it can be either a host account or normal user account as long as this account have the permission to add videos on the specified portal is ok You can register multiple websites in UVG Converter but only 1 website is active click your website name in right mouse menu gt Websites to pick it as the active one A checked icon is displayed beside active item Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 78 of 80 Biz Mocwles Ultra Video Gallery 4 Add videos Click Add Video from UVG Converter right mouse menu to add a video W Add Video Select a valid video file enter necessary Video information to describe your video and press Basic Information upload button UVG Converter encode Tite video title goes here selected video to flv or and H264 format Description video description goes here capture screenshot from it and upload to your remote site encoded videos are divided to multiple parts and get uploaded piece by piece SO in most case you are able to upload videos in any length successfully without a timeout error Cancel Another reason to use UVG Converter is the upload speed assume you have a 100mb video to upload and your encoding strategy set in UVG Configurations module is flv only if you upload it directly in UVG AddVideo module it make take more than 20 minutes with a fast inte
84. ust be a memeber of at least one of these roles E Registered Users Return In Permission tab of UVG Configurations module you can find this option J In UVG_VideoList module remove videos without permission to watch This option is turned off in default thus UVG_VideoList doesn t check view permission of each video so videos which can t be watched by current user are still displayed in this module When this option is turned on however UVG_VideoList will check view permission for every video and remove items without permission to watch This brings performance decrease so turn it on when you really need it View permission is very useful when you want to benefit from your videos for example you can create 3 roles in your website Bronze Member Silver Member and Golden Member users in Bronze Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 46 of 80 Biz Modules Ultra Video Gallery 4 Member can watch limited videos Silver Member can watch more videos and Golden Member can watch all videos then you can allow site users to pay for subscription of these roles DNN itself support role subscription your users can pay you by paypal to become a member of specific role in a predefined period In some case you may want to direct your visitors to a dedicated DNN page when they don t have permission to watch a video in this page you tell your visitors what to do for example to subscribe to a premium role this redirection pag
85. utomatically upload it to your DNN website and it appears in your video listing modules Important notice UVG Converter and UVG have no idea about the copyright issue of your videos please ensure you are authorized to use videos downloaded from internet Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 80 of 80
86. video is completely downloaded I bet you won t want to have this behavior on your website UVG alter the mp4 file to move meta information to the beginning of the file when upload so your visitors can watch it while buffering this brings 3 5 file size increase to the mp4 file please be aware of this Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 60 of 80 Biz Meochuiles Ultra Video Gallery 4 Video quality control General speaking the video quality is controlled by UVG automatically in mose case you donot need to care about it But experienced users can use Bitrate Manager to adjust the quality of UVG generated videos Bitrate manager is a feature in UVG amp UVG Converter used to control the quality of video output this feature is not available as a visible setting option For UVG locate BitrateManager xml in Desktopmodules UltraVideoGallery Binaries folder for UVG Converter locate it in C Program Files BizModules net UVG Converter 4 Binaries folder open it to get an xml document lt bitratemanager gt lt flv mode Fixed qmin 5 qmax 15 gt lt mp4 mode Dynamic bitrate 2 gt lt mp4 baseline mode Dynamic bitrate 2 gt lt mpg mode Dynamic bitrate 10 gt lt bitratemanager gt This xml contains 4 nodes flv mp4 mp4 baseline amp mpg FLV video quality The flv node is used to adjust quality of flv videos the mode attribute can be either Fixed or Auto set it to
87. you can find Silence mode and Watch folder option You can set a folder on your local disk as watch folder as long as a new video is placed in this folder no matter it s placed manually by your self or a program UVG Converter Add video window appears asking you to add this video When Silence mode is enabled UVG Converter Add video window doesn t appear when there is a new video in watch folder but UVG Converter add this video to your E Downleads funny 3gp website without asking you you get notification in the system tray like this 1 Video being added J The video file name is used as video title but video description and other fields are empty in this case you can leave it alone or visit your site sometime to change it funny Sgp uploaded oP U G Converter Real Player With the latest version of Real Player you can download video clips from almost ALL flash video P Download This Video players on internet it attach a toolbar like this above the player if you use real player together with UVG Converter you will find it s extremely useful In default real player save downloaded videos in My Documents My Videos RealPlayer Downloads you can set this folder as watch folder in UVG Converter and turn on Silence mode then as long as you find a good video on internet you can hover your mouse on it click Download this video link after the video is downloaded to your local computer UVG Converter a
88. zard step 2 of 3 Upload a video from my local computer Add a video in flv format from an internet url Add a video or other medias from a piece of html code video Crop Series This video doesn t belong to a video series Supported formats 392 3gp asi avi fv miv mov mpd mp4 mpe mpeg mpg mm mmawb suf wm wmv Kod Continue Please ensure Upload a video from local computer is checked now please download the demo video from this url http www bizmodules net Portals 0 Downloads HelloWorld zip save it to your local disk If you unzip it you get 3 files HelloWorld flv HelloWorld jpg HelloWorld txt The original format of this video is AVI however considering some users may not pass the permission check in configuration wizard we convert it to flv by UVG Converter to ensure it works on all websites Now please locate the file downloaded in Video field then press upload button the upload progress bar appears informing you the file is being uploaded if you test it on local website you may not see it because the file get uploaded almost instantly Copyright by bizmodules net 2007 2010 Page 16 of 80 TL Ei z Modh les Ultra Video Gallery 4 Video Source Add video wizard step 2 of 3 Upload a video from my local computer Add a video in fly format from an internet url Add a video or other medias from a piece of html code E Working HelloWorld zip Video Transferred 5

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