Videoserver

Registration

If you don't yet have a "RZ-account" (Computing Centre account), register it using the form provided

During the corona crisis the procedure is described in

https://www.rz.uni-kiel.de/de/ueber-uns/dokumente/formulare/anmeldung/rz-antraege-waehrend-corona

If an RZ account already exists, please send an e-mail  to anmeldung@rz.uni-kiel.de using your official mail address and ask for your RZ account  to be activated for the video server.

After activation, you will receive an email with a confirmation and brief instructions on how to use it.

 

 

 

 

 

Uploading video files

 

  • The video server can be reached via the name videoserver3.rz.uni-kiel.de .
  • To transfer files you have to establish a connection to your network share.
    To do this you have to be part of the university network ( VPN-connection).
  • Your network share is
    \\videoserver3.rz.uni-kiel.de\caulehre\suabc123 .
  • suabc123 is a placeholder and means your account.
  • Your username is uni-kiel\suabc123 . The password needed is the corresponding account password, that you need to set via CIM-Portal if you are not using it already for other services.

 

In Windows mounting a network share works as follows:

  • Windows Explorer
  • Click "This computer" with the right mouse button.
  • Choose "connect network drive"
  • Folder: \\videoserver3.rz.uni-kiel.de\caulehre\suabc123  (in special cases another folder can be used)
  • username: uni-kiel\suabc123
  • password (account password of suabc123)

 

Mac:

  • Finder -> go to -> connect to server
  • smb://uni-kiel\suabc123@videoserver3.rz.uni-kiel.de/caulehre/suabc123

 

Further information concerning "connection to network share", see https://www.rz.uni-kiel.de/de/tipps/netzlaufwerk_verbinden

Access via http

You can access your video files via http://videoserver3.rz.uni-kiel.de/caulehre/suabc123/  (more accurate via http://videoserver3.rz.uni-kiel.de/caulehre/suabc123/<relative-path-to-the-video>)

Embed videos in CMS Plone

Adding a folder

First you have to create a new folder via the green menu bar "Add new..." -> "Folder"

Add new... - Folder

Type a title for the folder

 

 

Add a link to the video file

After the folder is created, you are in the new folder.

Via the green menu bar choose "Add new..." -> "Link".

Add new... - Link

Type link title and URL

The title should end on the file type (e.g. .mp4) Der Titel sollte am Ende den Dateityp enthalten (z.B. .mp4), so that the so-called short name is created accordingly.
Alternatively, you can name the title more appealing and then only change the short name using the green menu "Actions" -> "Rename".

 

Folder display

If you click on the folder, you see the link object.

Folder content

Finally, the folder display has to be adjusted. To do this, select "Video (with automatic playlist)" in the green "Display" menu.

Darstellung Video mit automatischer Playliste

Now press the "play"-button to watch your video.

videos in the folder