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We do not but you could probably just use any HTML tutorial for embedding streaming material and then apply that within an HTML snippet in a targeted content channel.

As for streaming server's thats a whole other topic.

It would probably require you are running LumIV or do some pretty extensive mods, but someone has developed a YouTube Portlet.

Not so sure how kosher this would be for generic "videos about our university" searches, but it definitely caught my eye.

Dallas

We do have some video in our portal using html embed statements. We basically used a free-form html channel to do the embed code and pointed the source to a remote streaming server.

Our video changes frequently so in order to make this maintainable. We point to a given location and they just replace that file with the new one everytime. This saves any content maintenance in the portal.

I do want to caution on performance with this though. Since our source file is remote, the portal servers do not see and load issues due to the IO of the stream. End users however have complianed about load times of that tab. I strongly recommend keeping video off of your default tab. ANother usability issue is that users do not want to have the video play every time they hit the tab so we set up a cookie for an auto play once sort of thing. We clear this when the file is replaced and the user can also choose to replay at any time.

We have a video news player in our portal. We use a targeted content channel with a remote html reference section that points to an htm snippet on our localhost. The htm file stores a javascript reference which, when loaded, will call up the video player. This seems to run well and load time is good.