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Sensibly Managing
Clipstream™ Video Hosting
Uploading and hosting a single Clipstream™
Video is easy. Managing a dozen or more requires some sensible management.
In this page learn about codebasing and file management.
 Single folder video hosting: all needed files are in one spot Single folder video hosting You can upload and host easily by simply uploading all of your .vcs files, the videoclipstream.zip and buttonset to the same folder on your webserver. You learned to do this in the Uploading and Hosting Clipstream™ Video quickstart page.
As long as you don't move any of the files from that folder, you are fine. However,
if you have more than one project, you may want to create new folders to help
organize your files.
Common resources and linking
The Clipstream™ Video Applet
contains parameters that identify what the resources Clipstream™
Video needs and where they are located on a server. By default
the applet only refers to the resources as if they were located in the
same folder. But by rewriting the parameters you can refer to the resources
by relative or absolute hyperlinking.
This means that you can place commonly used resources in one location
on your server to save on duplication, file size and for simplicity.
Resources that can be shared commonly are:
Multiple folder hosting
By keeping your common resources in a central location
on your server and then uploading your separate .vcs projects into subfolders,
you can cut down on complication and also make updating the common resources
a one-step process. The diagram below illustrates this organization.  Multiple folder video hosting Codebasing
If you are relatively linking to a resource, note that it is
relatively linked from the location of the videoclipstream.zip mini-player. This
is why you should place individual projects in subfolders below the common
resources. The location of the videoclipstream.zip is specified in the
codebase statement.
To show the applet where the videoclipstream.zip
is located:
Relatively link buttons, movies, title/end imaging
Once the codebase has been written out then all other links in the applet code can be expressed as relative links
to the codebase location. A relative link is a link that is expressed relative to another file or folder, in this
case the videoclipstream.zip location.
ex.
In each of these examples, the files reside in a folder below the codebase (thesunday_movie/). From
these examples you can see that it is easy to set up multiple folders for each individual project, with
each folder varying in the movie files, graphic files, while keeping the same videoclipstream.zip and
buttonset.
Relatively linking a .vcs file: <param name="VideoURL" value="modem,0,thesunday_movie/testmovie_60.vcs"> Relatively linking the title image file: <param name="VideoTitleImageURL" value="thesunday_movie/testmovietitle.jpg"> Updating common resources
The advantage of this method is that you can upgrade common resources. A new videocipstream.zip? Simply
upload over the old one. Changing your branding in the title or end image? Upload new ones over the
old filenames. You will not need to update any of the code. |
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