Bamboo Video Library is the latest addition to Bamboo Labs, their incubator for new products in development at Bamboo. This is a new SharePoint solution designed to make uploading, managing and sharing videos in SharePoint simple and easy.You could use a standard SharePoint Document Library to store video files. However, Document Libraries lack some features that help make video content more discoverable and easier to manage, such as:
- The ability to capture metadata specific to video files (e.g. file type, duration, resolution etc.)
- Video thumbnails
- Embedded preview player
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5 Comments:
what if you want the video to be stored on a streaming video server, not in the local library, could this still work?
Would this no put a huge load on the server and content database for large videos ?
@Sara: Currently, the Bamboo SharePoint Video Library just only supports the file that you uploaded to the local sharepoint library. It doesn't support the video is stored on streaming video server.
@second post: For the large video, it will take a little laggy when you upload the video file for generating the thumbnail and meta-data. But when playing, I think the server loading is ok for response the stream for the player.
By default, the max request length that SharePoint supports is 50MB per request. Therefore, you can upload the video file that smaller the 50MB by default.
If you want to upload more than 50MB, you can change the maxRequestLenght setting in the web.config file of your current web application.
httpRuntime maxRequestLength="51200" /
For larger videos, it will take a little laggy when you upload the video for generating the thumbnail and meta-data. But when playing, I think the server loading is OK for response the stream for the player.
I think the extra load on the database (backend) server would be huge if you allow bigger video's to be uploaded and when the collection starts to grow.
The way to go is to develop a way to upload video's in SharePoint, but they get stored on a fileshare, and thus do not influence the performance of the database. (in my opinion)
And then ofcourse show them to users with a library like yours.
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