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Media Web Part in SharePoint 2010
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition has many new features useful for enterprises
.One who knows all these features can save a lot of cost and leverage SharePoint for better
management of assets including multimedia assets in organization.
SharePoint 2010 now also provides central repository for windows audio and video file.
One can upload this multimedia content to mediaassets library and play them in browser using
Silverlight media webpart
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Media Player web part supports only following Media file Format as
follows:-
1. Windows media Audio(WMA)
2. Windows Media Video(WMV)
3. ISO/MPEG Layer-3 (MP3)
4. MP4
In order to leverage this SharePoint Digital asset management feature follow the steps given
below
Steps:-
1. Open site in browser and enter credentials .The user must be site collection
administrator
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3. Here number of templates are available, but now we are interesting in to create an
Asset Library. So we choose Asset Library. we can choose directly from the front or we
can go to library in side navigation bar then select Asset library
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10. As above mentioned it support only following media file :-
Windows media Audio(WMA)
Windows Media Video(WMV)
ISO/MPEG Layer-3 (MP3)
MP4
If other than this file format, we select another one its give a message Assets in this format
cannot be played by the Media Player Web Part. Here we select a MPG file. So it shows the
message in yellow strip.
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14. After few second new window opens here we can put the information like title,
keyword, comments, Author, time and date of creation and copy right information.
Then Click on save button.
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17. Then click on play button. Now a video song is start.
Note: - Before binding the media file ensure that our
“SharePoint Server publishing Infrastructure” feature is
active or not. If it is not active we are not able to see video
and audio web part under the media section on ribbon
when we edit the page.
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18. Now we want to bind this media file with a web part. Then go back to your site. And
then go to Site Action ----->Edit Page.
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20. In the media section of ribbon there must be a video and audio web part. Because
“SharePoint server publishing Infrastructure” feature is not activated here .So it’s not
shown here. For this firstly we need to activate this feature.
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23. Here we can see SharePoint server publishing infrastructure feature is not activated.
Click on Activate button.to start your feature.
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28. Click on video and audio web part. After clicking we are able to see media webpart on
our page .then click on click here to configure.