UPDATE: The SharePoint Video Library is now available in our online store. Download your free 30-day trial copy today!
Bamboo SharePoint Video Library is the latest addition to Bamboo Labs, our 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
Bamboo SharePoint Video Library is based on the standard SharePoint Library. Like other instances of the SharePoint Library (e.g. Document Library, Picture Library, or Wiki Page Library) it retains all the standard document management capabilities you need to manage your files, including check in/check out, version control and "auditability".
Once installed, Bamboo SharePoint Video Library works exactly like any other SharePoint Library. When users go to create a new library they can simply choose Video Library as the library type. From there, uploading and managing files works like any other SharePoint Library.
Below is a list of the default metadata captured by the Bamboo Video Library. Of course users may add additional columns to the Video Library schema to capture metadata specific to the videos used in your organization. For example, if your videos can be organized into a discreet set of categories (e.g. training videos, screencasts and interviews) you may find it useful to add a choice column prompting users to categorize the video at upload.
- Title
- Video thumbnail (snapshot image)
- Preview player
- Video type
- Description
- Captured date
- Keywords (use for search)
- Duration
- Audio channels
- Video resolution
- Comments
If any of these columns are not useful or relevant to your application, you can simply modify the default view of the library to exclude these columns.
In this first beta version, the Bamboo Video Library supports the following video formats. In the next version of the solution, we will provide support for the Flash Video File (.FLV) format.
- Windows Media Video Format (.WMV)
- MPEG Video File : MPEG-1; MPEG-2 (.MPG; .MPEG)
- Audio Video Interleave File (.AVI)
Overview:
Default View - All Videos View
Thumbnail View
Quick View Player
Video Properties
Web Part View
Download:
Known Issues:
- Auto generating thumbnail and meta-data from uploaded video file doesn't work on Windows Server 2008 environment
- Anonymous user: prompt login box in the player
- Video Library Folder option doesn't work
Please visit our forum for more details: Beta 1 Known issues
Installation:
- This is a SharePoint solution, so it must be installed on your SharePoint Web front-end server. Extract the zip file and run the setup.bat and then follow the installation instructions and active the Bamboo Video Feature in Site collections Features list. It requires the following components to run:
- Windows 2003 or Vista OS with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) installed.
- .Net Framework 2.0 or higher.
Features Planned for the Next Beta Version
- The ability to import videos directly from YouTube via MashPoint, Bamboo's new data integration platform.
- Support Flash Video File (.FLV) format
- Support Silverlight and Flash Player
- New Album View
- Display video item metadata via tooltips on hover
- Ratings & tagging
- Support Library Folder
- Compatibility with Firefox browser
Please post all comments, questions and suggestions to the Bamboo SharePoint Video Library forum.
>> SharePoint Video Library Now Available from the Bamboo Storefront
Posted
Dec 16 2008, 11:02 AM
by
Binh Nguyen
Binh is the Team Lead for the SharePoint Custom Engineering group. His team are responsible for the design and development of Bamboo Custom Web Parts and solutions. He works at Bamboo's Vietnam office in HCM City.