DotNetIdeas Media Solution for SharePoint

DotNetIdeas Media Rendering Solution for SharePoint addresses the needs of rendering and managing media documents in the context of SharePoint.

To seamlessly integrate with MOSS publishing features and the WSS list/library framework, the solution bases itself on SharePoint Custom Field Types.

DotNetIdeas Media Solution for SharePoint provides two SharePoint Custom Field Types:

• Media Field Type
• Media Related Field Type

These two SharePoint Custom Field Types offer the following features to SharePoint Content Authors:

• Embed Media contents such as video clips, sound tracks and images in SharePoint Publishing Pages
• Embed Media content in the Display Forms of SharePoint document libraries and lists
• Choose rendering methods from built-in and custom-developed media render controls
• Populate rendering parameters automatically according to the rendering policies defined by site administrators
• Sort on media descriptions in SharePoint List/Document Library Views

DotNetIdeas Media Rendering Solution provides built-in media rendering controls such as Quick Time player, Windows Media Player, Flash Player, Flash Movie Player and more, however, different organizations may have different requirements for media rendering. To meet the challenge, DotNetIdeas Media Rendering Solution is architected around an object-oriented extensible framework so developers and system integrators can implement their custom rendering methods by implementing custom media render controls.

Like SharePoint WebParts, media render controls are critical components for customizing and personalizing SharePoint Site Contents. It is necessary for organizations to manage those components and so the Media Render Control Gallery allows SharePoint site administrators to manage the following aspects of media rendering controls:

• Which media render controls are available in a SharePoint site collection
• Which media render controls are the preferred rendering methods