Why need Ultra Video Gallery

Video clip is everywhere in our world, you can take it by your home digital camera / computer camera / mobile phone, you can get it from your DVD or VCD disk, you can record your screen by screen recorder softwares to make learning courses, you can download movies from internet in various formats, you can find favorite videos on Youtube or other video community websites, now the problem is, how to share them on your DotNetNuke website?

Can you upload your videos to your server and provide a link for your visitors to download and play it? NO, most visitors are not interested to wait a few minutes to download an unknown file before watch it, can you use HTML OBJECT tag to embed a player plug-in on your webpage like most other video gallery products do? This works in same case, you can embed a Real Player to play real videos, embed a Window Media Player to play microsoft windows videos, but how do you know whether Real Player/Windows Media Player is installed on your clients' computer? If they are not installed your video content is broken.

Another solution is to use 3rd party video websites, you can upload your videos to Youtube and embed it back to your website, this is a good idea if you have only 1 or 2 videos, but it won’t work if you have numerous videos.

Is there a better solution? Yes, Ultra Video Gallery is the best choice to host videos in DotNetNuke.

What can Ultra Video Gallery do?

The major purpose of UVG can be divided to 3 parts.

Allow site users to add new videos: in some case you add videos by your self, but in community websites you allow your site users to add videos, UVG works in both situations, the configuration module can be used to set which roles are allowed to add new items.

Encode uploaded videos for internet usage: like Youtube, UVG allows you to upload videos in any popular formats, below you can find an incomplete list, most of these formats are not designed for internet usage, so once you upload a video, UVG encode it to Flash Video(.flv) format or MP4 format with H264 encoding, both formats are specially designed for internet usage with a good balance of video quality and bandwidth cost.

	Microsoft WMV 1/2/3 .wmv, .wm, .asf		Mpeg-2 encoded DVD video .mpg, .vob
	Real Media .rm, .rmvb		Mpeg 1/2 .mpg, .mpeg, .mpe
	Apple Quicktime .mov		Mobile phone video format .3gp, .3g2
	DivX/XVID/Motion Jpeg .avi		Apple/Sony mp4 .mp4, .m4v

Play videos in flash video player: after video encoding, all videos can be played in our integrated flash video player, the video player is a group of modules which allows you to watch the video, rate it, comment it, share it… etc. when both FLV version and H264 version is available, you can choose the version to watch.

What's new in version 3?

Generally we do major upgrade seriously so you can expect to get a lot of enhancments when there is a new major, many components in UVG 3 are fully reworte to offer better user experience, such as add video module, video list module,client UVG Converter, video & audio player..., please download the user guide and refer to "What's new in UVG 3" chapter for a more detailed list. when you upgrade from UVG 1.x or 2.x you also have to read "Upgrade chapter" in the user guide carefully.

Since version 3, UVG is available as 2 separated editions, UVG Standard Edition & UVG Professional Edition, the only difference of them is H264 support and Advertisement (Commercial) support, these 2 features are available in Professional edition only, be aware of this before choosing what to buy.