Create a user-friendly media library using Lytebox: Update
Note from Mark Miller: Last week I did a quick screencast on an idea for a multi-media library. I love it when people take my ideas and expand on them.
Kevin Hughes improved the concept by making screencasts available through a dynamically generated query string. In addition, his improvements make it easy for an End User to simply upload a video or screencast and have it “discovered” as part of the library, without having to do any tweaks.
This is an excerpt from his article. You can read the entire case study on his site: SharePoint Kevin
Author: Kevin Hughes
I was inspired by the screencast on EndUserSharePoint.com called 5 Minute Screencast: Create a Multimedia Center in SharePoint.
I decided to create a solution along these lines for our company intranet. However, in looking further into the solution I found that many things were probably included in the workshop on this topic that I was missing by just watching the screencast.
Being one to try to find my own solutions to these sort of things I set out to create my own solution.
Criteria:
- The Media Library would be built within a SharePoint site
- The Media Library was to use Lytebox to display the videos
- The Media Library needed to be dynamic enough that an end user could use it by only uploading new videos to a SharePoint document library
- The end user would not need to create any code
- The end user would not need to create any new pages (more on this later)
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Hi
Would love to read what kevin did for this but currenly can’t access the SharePoint Kevin site all day. Is this an issue for anyone else?
c
Chris – Just tried and there doesn’t seem to be a problem:
http://www.sharepointkevin.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=18
Mark
Mark/Kevin,
Just built this and it worked perfectly, well almost.
Glitch 1-Never used SPD before so having to learn how to do the workflow. In the meantime I’ve manually added filenames for testing and will let workflow do its work later.
Glitch 2-Kevin’s steps didn’t go into too much detail about adding a CEWP to a basic page, something sharepoint (or at least mine) doesn’t let you do. Eventually did via SPD.
Glitch 3-If the user closes the Lytebox window whilst the video is playing it doesn’t stop! the video just keeps going without any visible window linked to it. Strange but true.
PS. Don’t take any of the above as a criticism. As they’re just my learning steps. Still a really useful addition to my site.
Many thanks both.
Thanks Mark
Kevins site works fine from home, behind a proxy here at work and Firefox throws this error. FYI:
Content Encoding Error
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.
* Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.