Category Archive: Media Streaming

Oct 21

Why the hell would you put video assets in SharePoint?

Recently I have seen a lot in blogs and presentations about remote blob storage with SQL and SharePoint 2010 I have also had many conversations around the subject which seems to be cropping up more and more. I think this very much ties into the growth model around SharePoint usage where allegedly Microsoft is selling …

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May 13

When media streaming goes bad

              At Twynham we have been streaming all of our video and audio files through SharePoint for many years, The staff have now grown to very much rely on this system as they do not now have access to TV’s, video players or DVD players and we now have …

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Jul 16

Streaming media with SharePoint 2010 using ASX files

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  I have previously written a series of articles on how we stream media files and deliver these through SharePoint (Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3)  but these are all based in our MOSS 2007 environment now that we are moving over to SharePoint 2010 I thought I would give you a …

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Feb 21

Media streaming through SharePoint part 3

Media Lib

Now that we had all of our media files in one location it just came down to the delivery method and media library look and feel below you can see a screenshot of our media library This gateway page is made up of basically 3 elements the media document library a search box and a …

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Feb 20

Media streaming through SharePoint part 2

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At Twynham it has always been our ambition to deliver all of our resources through SharePoint so with the media files that was always high on the agenda. As I said in the previous post this was version three of our media delivery solution, the first thing we discovered was the lack of resources available …

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Feb 19

Media streaming through SharePoint part 1

As I said in a previous post I would cover media streaming and how we deliver all of our digital assets through SharePoint, in the presentations that we give on our learning gateways this subject always gets a good reception as this is a great way to engage staff in the whole gateway experience. Before …

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