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The installation of the extension is easy as usual. Just import the extension (key: media_center) from the TYPO3 Online Repository (TER) and install it using the Extension Manager in the backend of your TYPO3 installation. Make sure you make the updates during installation process to apply the needed database changes. Elsewehre use the compare function of the database section within the install tool.
use the constant editor to configure the settings via typoscript. All configuration settings can be overriden via the flexform configuration of the plugin (see next chapter).
Attention: Empty settings and settings with value=0 of the flexform configuration will be ignored!
The next image shows the first part of the constant editor (32 settings available in total):
The extension introduces a new record Media center file. For each file in the playlist you have to create a Media Center File record at first.
I recommend to create a separate page from type “SysFolder” and use it as storage for the media files. Use the List Module to create a new record. Select “Media Center File”:
The file definition offers different fields, organized in three tabs:
Tab: File
If you select a local file, the media file will be copied to the upload/tx_mediacenter folder (standard TYPO3 behavior). If you want to integrate external files or use references to local files, you have use the url to external files (file_url) field and enter the absolute or relative path manually. Attention: If a local file is set, the path in url to external files (file_url) will be ignored. There is no validation of the external file settings so far, so be careful with the path and the filename !!!
set a path to a xml captions file
xml file has to be in W3C timed text format
format: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/TimedTextTags.html
xml file example: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/upload/bunny.xml
Set a duration if you want to override the length of the media file manually
if you enter an url as link a link icon will be displayed in the control bar
set the start position (in seconds) to define an offset where the file should start. Could be used to define chapters if you create multiple Media Center Files for one video file and include them in a playlist
Tab: Description
enter a title which will be displayed in the playlist (required)
insert an image which will be used as preview image in the video area, and as thumbnail in the playlist
enter a description for the playlist
enter the name of the author (person, company, or something else)
Tab: Language & Access
language
hide
time period
access
Insert a new content element and choose Insert Plugin. Select Media Center as plugin and add at least one Media Center File to the playlist in the Media Files tab of the flexform Configuration of the plugin.
If you want to integrate the player using typoscript only, you don' net to create any media file records or content element. Just set the typoscript constant renderingMode to typoscript and define the path to a file using the constant file as well. This could be either a local path to a single media file or to a playlist (e.g fileadmin/mediapool/videos/video.flv ) or an external path to a media file or playlist.
If you want to integrate an external streaming server to deliver the media files, use the plugin in Typoscript mode, set the file to the file name on the streaming server and set the flashvar streamer to the external url. A simple typoscript setup could look like this:
page.30 < plugin.tx_mediacenter_pi1
page.30.renderingMode = typoscript
page.30.file = bunny.flv
page.30.flashvars.streamer = rtmp://edge01.fms.dutchview.nl/botr
