Ultra Video Gallery is adopted by DotNetNuke corp to create a learning resource center for DotNetNuke community,
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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 to host videos in DotNetNuke since 2007.
What can Ultra Video Gallery do?
The major purpose of UVG can be divided to 3 parts.
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. You can choose whether to watch to low quality version or high quality version if both are available.
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Microsoft WMV 1/2/3
.wmv, .wm, .asf |
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Mpeg-2 encoded DVD video
.mpg, .vob |
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Real Media
.rm, .rmvb |
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Mpeg 1/2
.mpg, .mpeg, .mpe |
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Apple Quicktime
.mov |
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Mobile phone video format
.3gp, .3g2 |
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DivX/XVID/Motion Jpeg
.avi |
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Apple/Sony mp4
.mp4, .m4v |
What's new in version 4?
Most enhancements in this major upgrade are suggested by our clients, this ensures what we enhance is what you need, so if you get any cool ideas with this product, please do not hesitate to let us know, we expect to evolve Ultra Video Gallery together with you.
Below is the most important enhancements in UVG 4, a lot of minor upgrades are not documented.
- Better quality, smaller file size
The video encoding engine in UVG 4 is upgraded to generate more clearer, smoother videos, yet in most case the file size is even much smaller.
- 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 & 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 appearance. This also works when you add a youtube video just with "from internet URL" option.
- HTML 5 VIDEO tag support
VIDEO tag in HTML 5 standard allows you to deliver video contents without any 3rd 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.