Comments on: Can a hardened server play a SharePoint 2010 Silverlight Media Web Part?

By: Tristan Watkins

Tristan Watkins — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:32:47 +0000

Hi Joel,

Not sure I can be of much help there. I think you’re probably looking at some custom dev to present that data in the way you’re tying to do it, but this is definitely outside of my domain expertise.

Cheers,

Tristan

By: Joel Johnson

Joel Johnson — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:09:19 +0000

Thanks for you reply. My client is a fishing outfitter in Ontario, CA, with a number of lodges and cabins. The reason I’m using 3rd party hosting sites is that he has the following number of files, and growing every day:

Audio mp3 (podcast) — ~200 of average 6 minute duration
Video (various formats and bitrates) — ~8 hours
Photos (various resolutions) — ~40,000

The media viewer web part works OK if I put in a web part for each file, which is unwieldy. It also works OK (opens a Media Player on the desktop) if I put individual hyperlinks to every file, which has the same maintenance issues. With the external media, the problem I run nito is that any “Media and Content” web parts that can handle the files (.mp3, .wmv) won’t play them, and when I try to link, say, audio with an RSS feed, all the link does is toggle the description of the feed.

Tristan, I appreciate any feedback you may have and the time you’re taking to read this, but I think I need to get into MSDN or Technet and pose this question. I haven’t seen any topics out there yet with regards to external media for SP2010 — anything I’ve found is “SP2007″, and really doesn’t apply.

Thanks,
Joel

By: Tristan Watkins

Tristan Watkins — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:48:19 +0000

I think for images you should be fine in SharePoint. For other media files you might want to look at IIS Media Services. You can also get pretty far within SharePoint, particularly if you’re using the BLOB Cache, although it sounds like budgetary constraints may prevent that.

What are the problems you’re having with the web parts? This isn’t really may area of expertise, but happy to share my thoughts.

By: Joel Johnson

Joel Johnson — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:22:52 +0000

Tristan, I have a client site that we have fully migrated to SP2010 (with Commerce Server 2009), and I am having a lot of problems with all external media (images, video, and audio). Because the client has large amounts of all 3 types, we recommended that he use sites like PhotoBucket, MetaCafe, and Podbean to store his files (to save on hosted storage costs). But I am close to running into a deadend trying to integrate the media with standard web parts (I could use a content editor part and embed links, but that is unwieldy for them to maintain).

Any ideas or suggestions?

By: Tristan Watkins

Tristan Watkins — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:37:48 +0000

Cheers! I should have some more SP2010 content coming over the next few months, so stay tuned.

By: SharePoint 2010 Event

SharePoint 2010 Event — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:37:53 +0000

Sounds good. It’s great how there’s always someone talking/blogging about the exact subject that interests you – so thanks for taking the time! I’m just an average user unfortunately but I’m looking to attend some events soon to see how to make more use of SharePoint when we migrate.