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complete solution

Complete solution: UVG is not a simple module, this is a complete, enterprise-level video solution, which includes 18 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 2 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, there are various kinds of browsers and flash plugins, UVG is fully tested with all major platforms and browsers, you can expect all your visitors can see your videos properly.

video conversion from various formats
Video conversion engine: UVG use same technology as Youtube, when you upload a video clip in browser, UVG convert it to Flash Video format(.flv), the conversion process is very fast, it takes only a few seconds to convert a short video, flv format is the most suitable video format for internet distribution, this component is enhanced in UVG 2 and have higher success rate.
typical flv player interface

FLV video player: converted 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.

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.

Completely localization: UVG supports completely localization, every text strings, including the flash player, are localizable, in the user guide you can find a localization guide.

Save files in portal directory: all videos, screenshots are saved in a directory under your portal root and don't cost your database space.

add video from internet

Add video from internet: you also can add video from a valid internet URL. internet videos are browsed and played together with local videos, if you want to use dedicated storage server like Amazon Z3 to store your videos, you can convert videos to flash video format by UVG Converter, and upload them to your storage server, then you just need to tell UVG the url of your video and UVG can handle the rest.

Integrate with Youtube, Google Video and more: UVG 2 is specially designed to work with Youtube, Google Video and other video community websites, you can directly pass the url with video on it to UVG and UVG can handle the rest.

adjustable video quality

Add video from embed code : this is a new feature in version 2.3, with it, you can add a video from embed code offered by youtube and 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, and anything.

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.

User interface features

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.

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.

upload progress bar

Upload progress bar: to upload a video from local disk takes some time, Unlike prior versions, a notification message is displayed when your users upload a file, a graphical upload progress bar is displayed and refreshed immediately if your website is setup in full trust environment.

Ajax support: ajax is used in various sub modules 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.

Bulk video creation: multiple videos can be zipped and added in single operation, you also can upload your videos by FTP and force UVG to detect them.

rotated 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.

Rotated screenshot: UVG can capture a series of screenshots from your video and display them in rotation order, to give you visitors are more detailed impression. in medium trust environment this feature is automatically replaced by the static 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 expect to get higher page view with this feature.

Watermark: display a watermark 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.

video search

Search support: supports standard DNN search interface, you can search a video by its description in DNN search form, UVG 2 also have a custom search input module and search results module which allows you to do more accurate search.

Flexible video listing: UVG offers 6 listing modules to build various 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.

Flexibility

configuration wizard

Amazon Simple Storage Service integration : this is a new feature in version 2.2, 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 investment.

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.

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.

audio gallery

Audio Gallery support: mp3 music is also supported in this version, songtext is displayed in video area rotatedly.

Rss subscription: 4 major video listing modules support rss subscription.

Search Engine Optimazation: UVG 2 is specially optimized for search engines, you can expect to get a better site index on google and other search engines.

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.

UVG Converter

UVG converter: to do online video conversion, UVG need permission to launch external process on server side, in medium trust environment and some other situations, your hosting company disallow this operation so video conversion may not work, does this mean you can't use UVG? NO, in this case you can use UVG Converter. this is a desktop application which can be installed it on your local computer, with it, you can convert videos to flash video format locally, you can capture screenshot and edit video details, and use it to upload converted videos to UVG on your remote server.

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 categories 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.

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.

video categories

Video categories: videos can be organized by categories, you can create unlimited categories and each video can be placed in in multiple categories, categories can be used to provide easy navigation.

Video sharing: UVG can send an email notification to your friends to share a video; you also can find a piece of html code to embed your video anywhere, you can embed it in a web page, an email, or even a forum post.

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