Why need Ultra Video Gallery

Video clip is everywhere in our world, you can take video clip by your home digital camera / computer camera / mobile phone, you can get video clips from your DVD disk or VCD disk, you can record your screen by screen recorder softwares to make learning courses, you can download video clips from internet in various formats, you can find favorite videos on Youtube or other video community websites, now the problem is, how to share them on your DotNetNuke website?

Can you upload your video clip to your server and provide a link for your visitors to download and play it? NO, most visitors are not interested to wait a few minutes to download an unknown file, can you use HTML OBJECT tag to embed a player plugin on your webpage like most other video gallery products do? this works in same case, you can embed a Real Player to play real videos, embed a Window Media Player to play microsoft windows videos, and embed an Apple Quicktime player to play .mov videos, but you may get these problems:

How do you know whether Real Player/Windows Media Player/Apple Quicktime player is installed on your clients' computer? if they are not installed your visitors are not able to watch it. These players only support limited video formats, What can you do if you want to share videos in other formats? Some video formats are not special designed for internet usage, your visitors may wait for quite a long time to watch a short video. The user interface of each player is different, how do you control your website design? How to share your favourite videos on Youtube? embed a Youtube player to your webpage? now you get the 4th kind of video players.

Is there a better solution? Yes, Ultra Video Gallery solved all problems above.

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 may want your 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. UVG also support adding internet videos, if you already know the url of an .flv video, you can specify its url and you don't need to upload it.

Convert uploaded videos to Flash Video format: this is the most "featured" feature of this product. UVG can convert videos in other formats to Flash Video(.flv) format, which is designed by Macromedia(now Adobe) , Flash Video format provides a good balance of video quality and bandwidth cost, so it is ideal to be used on internet, video conversion is a fast and automated process and you may never notice it. UVG can convert almost all video formats to .flv format, below is an incomplete list.

	Microsoft WMV 1/2/3 .wmv, .wm, .asf, .asx		Mpeg-2 encoded DVD video .mpg, .vob
	Real Media .rm, .ra, .rmvb, .ram		Mpeg 1/2 .mpg, .mpeg, .mpe
	Apple Quicktime .mov		Mobile phone video format .3gp
	DivX/XVID/Motion Jpeg .avi		Apple/Sony mp4 .mp4, .m4v

Play videos in flash video player: after conversion, all videos can be played in our integrated flash video player, which shares color scheme and layout with Ultra Media Gallery player. So it is ideal to use both products on your website together and present similar user interface experience. According to Adobe's report, Flash Player is available on 99.1% computers on internet, and UVG prompts your visitors to install flash player if it is unavailable, so you can expect to safely deliver your contents to all visitors.