PT Multimedia Getting Started

Overview

This guide is designed to help you quickly get started using the Multimedia application on your web site. Before you get started, there are some important concepts and terminology to understand. The Multimedia application supports uploading video and audio files, through dialog screens in the Multimedia application, directly to your web server and then to play them within your site. We refer to Multimedia served directly from your web server as “Locally Hosted”. The Multimedia application will also play videos that are hosted on third-party sites such as youtube, Yahoo and Vimeo. This guide uses the term “Externally Hosted” to refer to the serving of multimedia which resides on third-party sites.

Though the Multimedia application plays multimedia (locally hosted) without the need for a streaming server, if you wish to utilize a streaming server to take advantage of features such as digital rights, tracking and reporting, etc – you may easily customize the Multimedia application to use your in-house streaming server. The Multimedia application is designed to allow your coldfusion developers to add support for additional third-party sites, modify how media displays, etc.

If you only intend to present externally hosted media, then your Multimedia Configuration Manager page only requires that the “Upload Media Form”, “Pop-up Player URL” and “Search Results URL” fields be populated. If you intend to present both externally and locally hosted multimedia, or just locally hosted multimedia, then all fields must be populated before you begin. Instructions for these fields are described under the installation steps. This guide assumes installation is completed.