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Feature Highlights
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Architecture
complete solution |
Complete solution: UVG is not a simple module, this is a complete, enterprise-level video solution, which includes 21 DNN modules and applications, this solution can be used in various business situations, family websites can use it to share videos among family members, company websites can use it to exhibit their products, online education websites can use it to play(or even sell) learning courses, personal websites can use it to share funny videos on youtube ... this product can do more, just wait for your exploration.
Platform compatibility: on server side, UVG 3 is designed to work in various DNN versions and both full trust and medium trust environment(some premium features are replaced by basic features in medium trust environment, refer to our user guide for more information); on client side, UVG is fully tested with all major platforms and browsers, you can expect to safely deliver your video content to all visitors. |
video conversion from various formats |
High performance: UVG have complicated business logic but high performance, we use a lot method to prevent frequent time-consuming operations, for example, the belonged category and tags of a video is read from database only once, if you don't restart your server and don't alter this video, UVG always use cached data.
Video encoding engine: UVG use same technology as Youtube, when you upload a video clip in browser, UVG encode it to Flash Video format(.flv), the encoding process is fast, it takes only a few seconds to convert a short video, flv format is the most popular video format for internet video distribution.
H264 support: This feature enhance your user experience to a whole new level, H264 is a video codec standard, you can use it to deliver video content in extremely high quality at substantially lower bit rates, UVG 3 can be setup to encode videos to H264 or(and) flv format, when enable H264 encoding you can deliver high quality video in HD 720P or even 1080P. |
typical flv player interface |
Flash video player: encoded videos and videos from internet are played in our integrated flash video player, our flash player offers the ability to quickly, smoothly playback your videos with an well designed user interface, users can switch in normal mode and full screen mode.
Advertisement (Commercial) support: This feature allows you to benefit from your website, you can display 4 kinds of commercials in UVG video player: Preroll, Postroll, Background & BottomThird. Our video player play your commercials before/after/together with your video content.
Completely localization: UVG supports completely localization, every text strings, even in the flash player, are localizable, in the user guide you can find a dedicated localization guide chapter. |
add video from internet |
Add video from internet url: Baside uploading videos from local computer, you also can add video from a internet URL or popular video websites.
Add video from embed code : You can add a video from embed code offered by youtube or any other video websites, the embed code is a free html field, so actually you are not limited to add a video only, you also can embed a flash game, an article, a picture gallery, what ever. |
mp3 audio player |
Dedicated mp3 audio player: Beside video files, UVG is also able to store and play mp3 music, a dedicated audio player is available.
View permisson control: Video managers can set view permssion by DNN roles on both category and video level, so it's easily to restrict some users from watching specific videos, you can use this feature to sell your videos. |
User interface features
Add a video to series |
Video series: Video Series is a group of videos, the most popular scenario is online movie or TV play, which contains multiple parts, you can group these parts in a series so visitors can easily watch them.
Lightbox support: Similar to Ultra Media Gallery, when enable this feature in video listing modules, you can click to watch a video in lightbox window without a page reload. |
user interface customization |
User interface customization: you may have your own web design and business requirements, our flash player offers 20 options to set colors, transparence, size and behaviors(like auto play), you can fully customize it to meet your web design.
Configuration wizard: UVG have a lot of configuration options, some UVG 1.x users reported they are complicated, now this wizard helps you to do pre-use configurations in simplest manner. |
upload progress bar |
Upload progress bar: to upload a video from local disk takes some time, when upload a video, a graphical upload progress bar is displayed and refreshs every second to show the upload progress if your website is setup in full trust environment.
Ajax support: UVG 3 use DNN Core ClientAPI service to provide Ajax feature in various parts of this product, which brings you more smart and cool user interface effect, the upload progress bar is a typical sample of ajax effect. |
video upload quota |
Upload quota: Quota is the max number of videos a user can add, when you collect videos from public users, you may want to restrict them from adding numerous videos, you can setup a quota for each role.
RSS Subscription: You can subscribe to a specefic video listing or a specefic video author. |
gif screenshot |
Video screenshot: video screenshot is very useful to give your visitors a brief view, when you upload a video, UVG can automatically capture a screenshot from the 1st frame of this video, you also can enter a time point and let UVG to capture a screenshot manually.
Animated gif screenshot: In UVG 3, You can set the max frames of video screenshots, when set it to 1, UVG create traditional jpeg screenshot, when set it to a value greater than 1, UVG will create animated gif screenshot. |
related videos |
Related videos: like youtube and other video community websites, videos with same tag are displayed in our video player when reach the end of current video, you can optionally display a rating form or Replay and Share button in the top of this screen.
Watermark & TV Logo : display a watermark text of image logo above your videos to show your copyright info, you can specify your watermark text in HTML format and the position you'd like to place, when your videos are embeded to other websites, your portal alias are used as watermark to protect your work.
Player frame: Be aware this feature is available in Professional edition only, UVG allows you to specify a frame picture to warp the video player, for example, you can use a LCD TV picture as the frame, so it looks like your videos are being played in a TV set. |
video search, with intelligent sense |
Search support: UVG 3 supports standard DNN search interface, a dedicated search module with intelligent sense is also available in UVG.
Flexible video listing: UVG offers 2 listing modules to build various kinds of video listings, for example, most recent videos, popular videos, related videos of current playing item, videos of current user, these modules use display templates to determine its layout and appearance, you can fully customize it to meet your requirements. |
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Flexibility
Composing & manage permission set |
Authoring environment: similar to Ultra Media Gallery, UVG allows you to create a community authoring environment, when you create an enterprise website, a family website or community website, you can allow some users to add new videos, but some others users to approve and manage them.
Adjustable video quality: the video quality in UVG is adjustable, if you want better video quality and your server have good bandwidth, you can increase bit rate and video size parameters in the configuration module, otherwise you should decrease them, this ensures you have a good balance of video quality and response speed. |
Get user avatar from 3rd party modules |
Amazon Simple Storage Service integration : UVG can be seamlessly integrated with Amazon S3, so you can securely store your videos in datacenters of amazon to save your disk space and bandwidth cost.
CloudFront integration CloudFront is a new service from Amazon, this feature allows your site visitors in any continent to watch your videos from nearest server location.
Integarte with 3rd party DNN modules: UVG can work together with other popular DNN modules like user profile, forum, and private messages, when your visitors watch a video, they can browse the author's user profile, forum posts, or send him a private message. |
Captcha validataion |
Captcha validation: UVG 3 allows unauthenticated users to post video comments with captcha validation, in most case your visitiors are unauthenticated users so this feature promotes participations of your site visitors so it will definitely promote your website.
Search Engine Optimazation: UVG 3 is specially optimized for search engines, you can expect to get a better site index on google and other search engines. |
Brand new UVG Converter 3 |
Brand new UVG converter 3: To do online video encoding, you must pass the permission check in UVG Configuration Wizard, if you are not able the pass the permission check, you can use our client application - UVG Converter to encode and upload videos, UVG Converter 3 is fully rewrote with a friendly user interface and powerful feature set.
Flagging inappropriate videos: if inappropriate video is added to your website, visitors can click a button to flag it due to given reason, an email notification is sent to video managers. |
tag cloud |
Tag support: use tag to describe your videos, tag also can be used to create related videos, tag cloud can be created with repeated colors and styles.
Video approval: optionally turn on the approval process, then videos must be approved by video manager before public displayed, video manager receive an email when there are new pending items. |
Post video to social netoworking websites |
Video category: videos are organized by categories.
Video sharing: UVG can send an email notification to your friends to share a video; the links to post a video to 7 popular social networking websites can be found what watch a video. |
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