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  • George Mocanu 28 posts 48 karma points
    Jan 23, 2011 @ 14:11
    George Mocanu
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    Video tutorials website

    Hello

    Any suggestions how to build intranet website using umbraco in order that the editors can upload screencasted videos (mp4 videos produced with Camtasia ) an users can navigate search throw them and play them from the browser ?

    Similar with tutorial videos from umbraco.

    Thanks,

  • Steven J. Ackerman 4 posts 24 karma points
    Jul 16, 2014 @ 19:44
    Steven J. Ackerman
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    Hello -

    I'm trying to implement a similar website using Umbraco 7. Unfortunately it appears that Umbraco puts each media item into a separate folder, and the Camtasia player model expects all files related to a video to be in a single folder.

    Did you ever arrive at a solution to this problem ?

    Regards,

    Steven J. Ackerman

    ACS, Sarasota, Florida

     

  • Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib
    Jul 18, 2014 @ 10:46
    Jan Skovgaard
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    Hi Steven

    You can create a folder in the media archive where you can upload your videos and then read the videos from that folder.

    What does your current code look like?

    /Jan

  • Steven J. Ackerman 4 posts 24 karma points
    Jul 18, 2014 @ 19:52
    Steven J. Ackerman
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    Jan-

    Thank you for your reply.

    Naively I wasted a lot of time trying to fit Umbraco's media model around Techsmith's Camtasia publishing model. This doesn't seem possible to do with Umbraco - at least not for someone new to this CMS. Camtasia creates a folder (directory) for each video that holds some scripts, stylesheets, images, html pages and the .MP4 video file: Camtasia Video Folder Content

    I was hoping to be able to create a series of Media Types, Document Types and Document Templates to allow these Camtasia videos to reside on my website in a similar structure and to use the embedding concepts shown in this support video: Uploading files to a web server to embed on a website. I can upload the Camtasia files to the /media folder using FTP preserving the folder / file structure, and then make the template generate the modified markup as shown in the video.

    Unfortunately the modified .HTML file references the _player.html file that references files that are not in the same absolute location as the generated markup - so, while I could get the player to appear, all I had was a spinning progress GIF and no joy.

    I then tried a new approach using the media picker control to upload these same files but this doesn't work because Umbraco puts every item into a separate node folder.

    My last attempt was to ditch everything except the .MP4 file but try to structure a Videos media type containing one or more Video Series media types each containing one or more videos. But I couldn't get this to work. The first media content creation worked correctly but I was unable to add a second video to the same video series - probably a pilot error on my part.

    I will try and post my media and document types in another reply.

    Steven J. Ackerman ACS, Sarasota, Florida

  • Steven J. Ackerman 4 posts 24 karma points
    Jul 18, 2014 @ 20:41
    Steven J. Ackerman
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    Running fresh install of Umbraco 7.1.4 on AspHostPortals.com hosted site.

    Here are the media types:

    Media Types

    Here is the Videos Media type:

    Videos Media Type Info

    Videos Media Type Structure

    Videos Media Type Generic Properties

    Here is the Video Series Media type:

    Video Series Media Type Info

    Video Series Media Type Structure

    Video Series Media Type Generic Properties

    Here is the Video Media type:

    Video Media Type Info

    Video Media Type Structure:

    Video Media Type Generic Properties

    The Videos Main document type:

    Videos Main Document Type Info

    Videos Main Document Type Structure

    Videos Main Document Type Generic Properties

    The Video Series document type:

    Video Series Document Type Info

    Video Series Document Type Structure

    Video Series Document Type Generic Properties

    The Video document type:

    Video Document Type Info

    Video Document Type Structure

    Video Document Type Generic Properties

    The Videos Main document template:

    Videos Main Document Template

    List Video Series Partial View Macro

    The Video Series document template:

    Video Series Document Template

    List Videos Partial View Macro

    The Video document template:

    Video Document Template

    Video Link Partial View Macro

    And the Content showing the first video:

    Content First Video

    I can't create any additional Videos under this series - it won't let me add the folder. /media folder permissions are correct. Nothing entered in the log:

    Failed to add folder

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