VSW reduces the setup and production of a Webcast to a number of sequential tasks. First, I set up users to produce, schedule, operate and view Webcasts. You can specify presenters and restrict access by user or group. VSW uses LDAP to manage and administer users and groups in iPlanet and Microsoft Active Directory.
As producer, I set the date and time for the event. VSW provides some basic options for layout, and you can choose the color and style for the media player, but an enterprise can put its own brand on the presentation using Virage's development kit. During the layout, I created and included a participant poll and imported links to related documents. Next, I verified the publishing point--the URL created after the editing process is complete, from which the user can access the presentation or publication--and configured a "proxy" to deliver live video.
Getting the Word Out
VSW automatically generates the publishing-point URL, which is actually VSW's virtual representation of the video captured from the camcorder and encoded in a streaming media format. To add flexibility, you can create as many proxies as you want in VSW, and the bitrate for encoding can be adjusted in the VideoLogger for low- or high-bandwidth conditions.
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