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How To Upload A Video Using FTP
Open an FTP program, such as Filezilla (
). Or add a
network location to your Windows computer (see
http://support.discovervideo.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2484466-ftp-
from-desktop-folder
Set the FTP program for Active FTP mode and point it to the DEVOS server,
and enter your username and password (get the username from your DEVOS
profile page) and login
Select the properly encoded video file and drag/drop it to default FTP location
Wait up to 5 minutes and the video file will disappear from the FTP folder (you
can see this if you refresh the FTP session)
Log in to DEVOS, select Admin Portal, and navigate to Video On-Demand.
Your new video will appear at the most recent video. Select Edit on the video
to enter desired Title, Description, etc.
For FTP upload, you can include a XML file to set the metadata. The form of the XML
is:
<Properties>
<title>YOUR TITLE</title>
<description>YOUR DESCRIPTION</description> OPTIONAL
<author>YOUR AUTHOR</author> OPTIONAL
<startdate>8/31/2014 3:59:27 pm</startdate> OPTIONAL
<expiredate>8/31/2024 3:59:27 pm</expiredate> OPTIONAL
<starttime>00:00:00</starttime> OPTIONAL
<endtime>99:00:00</endtime> OPTIONAL
<mediasettings>default media settings</mediasettings> OPTIONAL
<password></password> OPTIONAL
<viewerlimit>0</viewerlimit> OPTIONAL
<tags>one,two,three</tags> OPTIONAL
<category>one^two^three</category> OPTIONAL
<thumbnail>my_image.jpg</thumbnail> OPTIONAL
<accesspoints>YOUR-CHANNEL^SUB-CHANNEL</accesspoints> OPTIONAL
</Properties>
Simply create this file with any editor and give it the same name as the video file but add
.xml. For example, if the video file is "myvideo.mp4" make a file named
"myvideo.mp4.xml" or “myvideo.xml” and upload it at the same time as the video.
Note that if you include Channel names in the above “<accesspoints>” tag (with "^"
between sub-Channels), your video will be published in the target Channel.
You can also upload a document with the same name as the video (e.g. my_video.pdf)
and it will be included with your video. If you have used the <thumbnail> tag in the
above XML, include that in your upload and that image will be used as the thumbnail for
your video.