This document discusses the enhanced video experience in SharePoint 2013. It includes: - An HTML5 video player that supports video playback without plugins - A new video player page that surfaces metadata about each video - Easy video upload through drag and drop - Built-in thumbnail generation for videos - New digital asset content types for audio, video, and images - Features for tagging, rating, and viewing video usage statistics - Support for multiple video formats and renditions - Improved video search capabilities

1. Who Am I?

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3. Enhanced Video Experience in
SharePoint 2013
A picture is worth a thousand words, but did you know that a video is worth a thousand pictures?

4. Agenda
 HTML 5 video player
 The new video player page
 Easy video upload
 Build-in thumbnail capture
 Digital content types
 Tagging, rating, view counts
 Video Renditions
 Supported video types
 Videos in search

5. HTML 5 Video Player
A picture is worth a thousand words, but did you
know that a video is worth a thousand pictures?
• Built-in HTML5 media player
• Support exposing an embed
code
• Video on the web without
plugins
• Now you can play videos on
mobile devices such as iOS
that don't support Silverlight
• If the format is not playable
by the HTML5 player, then it
will use Silverlight

6. The new video player
page
SharePoint 2013 offers a video player page for
each video, which surfaces the video with its
metadata…
These include:
• Name
• Description
• Owner
• The people in video
• Related documents
• Download link
• Created by & on
• Rating
• Number of views
...etc

7. The new video player page

8. How are videos organized?

9. Easy video upload
Upload videos to a library that has the video
content type enabled
the Asset Library: customized for
storing digital assets.
Hey.. You can upload videos by
Drag & Drop !
Second way:
• Upload video from my computer
• Provide a link to a video
• Provide code to embed a video
from the web

10. Build-in thumbnail
capture
You can use client-side thumbnail generator to set
those perfect moments as thumbnails for your
videos
Three types of thumbnailing:
• Server-generated
OR
• User-selected
OR
• Use a picture from a web address.

11. Video thumbnailing

12. Digital content types
MS has introduced a new set of content types
called “Digital Asset Content Types” for better use
of Audio, Video, Images as Web content
• Audio
• Video
• Images

13. Tagging, rating, view
counts
Video tagging, rating, and view counts. All these
features take you a step closer in personalizing your
video experience
• Get to know the people in
that video
• Let people rate your videos
• You can know how popular is
your video

14. Video Renditions
The video renditions feature lets you upload
multiple renditions of a video-whether they are…
• Different codecs/formats
• Different bitrates
• Switching renditions on-the-fly
• By default, the video with the
lowest bitrate is chosen, to
conserve bandwidth
• Manage Renditions page

15. Supported video
types
• Asf
• Avi
• Mpg
• Mp3
• Mp4
• Ogg
• Ogv
• Webm
• Wma
• wmvSharePoint’s Media Web Part, does have specific
file formats it supports. For HTML5, it supports:

16. And YES … Videos are touch-friendly

17. Videos in search
Find videos easier and faster
• The Everything vertical
• Video intent group
• Hover cards & callouts-a window

18. The Everything vertical

19. Video intent group

20. Hover cards & callouts-a window

21. No More Slides !

22. DEMO
Make it happen !

23. Questions
Don’t hesitate to ask any.

24. Reference
• http://sharepoint.nauplius.net/2013/01/supported-file-formats-in-the-sharepoint-2013-media-web-part/
• http://sharepointrelated.com/2012/07/30/maximum-file-size-per-extension-in-sharepoint-2013/
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx

25. Thanks.
Bye!