19 Apr 2016

As part of the 3.8.0 release of Video Portal, besides a couple of bug fixes, there were also introduced few features:

There is a new Menu behavior
You can now set the buffer length limit when you are using Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR)
Tool-tips have been added for Sorting, Viewing and Filtering buttons

How to access/use the new implementation?

The Menu can be accessed from the left side of the Video Portal. Due to the confusion that the old behavior of the Menu caused, and after some iterations with few customers, the new Menu is intended to collapse only when you reach the final node (See the section below: How the new implementation works?)

Buffer length limit

Buffer length limit is only available for ABR video on the landing page of the video.

Having the possibility of lowering the maximum buffer length limit allows to reduce the bandwidth usage(both on the client side and on the infrastructure side), as the user will not automatically download a huge section of the video automatically.

How the new implementation works?

What has been changed from the previous behavior are the following:

The Menu does not collapse unless you reach the final node in the Menu
The content viewer will load the selected menu point only when you reach the final node, or press on the All button
There is a new All button that will load all the assets from that sub-menu.

You can find more about the new behavior by looking at this video: http://house.mediamanager.digizuite.dk/#!/asset/2959

Buffer length limit

If configured, the video player from the landing will not buffer seconds more than the value specified. This does not guarantee a minimum buffer time for the video, but only that the buffer time will not exceed the set limit.

How to configure the new implementation?

In the new menu implementation, new style variable have been added in order to offer the possibility of customizing the menu more granularity than in the previous versions. This changes can also be found in the Styling Guide.

Available variables for customization(with their default values)

/* Background of the menu */
@leftmenu-background-color: #1e1e1e;

/* Styling of the left menu header */
@leftmenu-top-background-color: #1e1e1e;
@leftmenu-top-border-bottom: 1px solid #353535;
@leftmenu-top-text-color: #fff;
@leftmenu-top-icon-color: #8f8f8f;
@leftmenu-top-icon-hover-color: #fff;

/* Styling of the menu items */
@leftmenu-item-background-color: #282828;
@leftmenu-item-border-bottom: 1px solid #353535;
@leftmenu-item-text-color: #ffffff;
@leftmenu-item-background-color-hover: #333333;
@leftmenu-item-background-color-active: #000000;
@leftmenu-item-background-color-inPath : #000000;
@leftmenu-item-icon-folder-color: #f1c312;

/* Styling of favorites */
@leftmenu-myfavorites-counter-background-color: #434343;
@leftmenu-myfavorites-counter-text-color : #fff;
@leftmenu-item-icon-heart-color: #f34642;

Note: the variable @leftmenu-back-icon-color was renamed to @leftmenu-top-icon-color.

Buffer length limit

After updating the VideoPortal, in the DAM center navigate to the product configuration page (System tools → Config Manager → Digizuite Video Portal). In there, a new text configuration named "Adaptive Bitrate Maximum Buffer Length(seconds)" will be available. In there you can insert a number that will represent the maximum number of seconds the video player will buffer. If left blank, it will default to 600 seconds.

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