We’re happy to announce the release of the Video Feature in Ning 3.0 platform.
Today we've added an option for you to upload your own video content or to embed it from other video sources!
Videos 3.0 is a great way for you to build a dazzling network posting exclusive content and attracting more members. Share your videos via Facebook or custom site and experience your network growing to a large community. With this release, you can upload up to 30 videos at a time using our brand-new bulk media uploader.
There's a lot that's new, so please dive in, explore and let us know what you think!
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Hi Anam
I know exactly what you mean for the videos. By default the add content modules for the videos only display 8 by default. To control how many to display you can add a little css to control the list of how many are shown. Rather than write it up here I will create a tip in the main forum for it.
Linking and embedding videos does not take up a lot of space as you are only adding links and iframes to your site, the only part that may take up a bit of space are the images of the video themselves depending on how Ning transfers those images. The main video is on YouTube or whatever site you are linking to. When you click on a video to play then that is streamed via the site your linking to into the iframe. Adding videos into the activity or by clicking on the add video option in the mini toolbar does the same thing. So the only storage space you should be using is the code for adding the iframe etc and not the video itself.
The only part you need to worry about for storage for videos is on the upload option, I turned this off by using some code to not show that option, because each video can be upto a max of 100mb. So if you are on a low storage plan these will eat that up really quickly if the members use the full 100mb, don't forget 100mb x 10 = 1gig so if 10 videos have been uploaded using the max size of 100mb and you are on the basic plan for 1gig storage that will be it gone.
Ning have mentioned that they will be reviewing the strorage amounts when they re-do the plans.
Hope that helps clear things up a bit, I will add that tip now so you should see it in the forum shortly.
John :-)
HI John
You have cleared everything up for me, and I really appreciate it.
And I honestly don't know what we would do without your help on Ning; it would be a completely different experience without your input. Thank you very much,
I will go now and look at your codes. have a lovely day.
Anam
Hi Anam!
Regarding you suggestion to add the ability to limit members in the number of videos that they could upload on the network.
The management has reviewed it and decided that it would be a good addition to the functionality of the platform. So it has been added to the plan but you shouldn't expect the released of it before the Q1 of 2018.
Best regards,
Ning Team.
Thanks for your Kinds words Anam I appreciate that. :-)
Very nice addition to Ning 3 sites, thanks!
Nice introduction of videos back onto the Ning 3.0.
There are a couple of issues I discovered
padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;
}
I made a few other little adjustments that you may like to see and here is all the css I changed
/*Detail Page Corrections*/
.videoDetailPage-video{
margin-bottom:5px;
}
.videoDetailPage-viewVideo {
float: right;
margin: 10px 0px 10px 10px;
width:100%;
}
.videoDetailPage-viewVideo .icon-eye{
vertical-align:bottom;
}
/*This is the get embed button although I would probably move it uner the video iteself */
.videoDetailPage-getEmbedCode_wrap {
width:100%;
text-align:right;
margin:5px 0px;
}
/** Adding A Video Input Correction As It Was Cutting If The Text Top And Bottom **/
.input-full.videoForm-inputTitle{
padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;
}
/* Social Actions Box */
.videoDetailPage .socialActions{
margin-top:12px;
margin-bottom:6px;
}
/* Spacing for the social buttons */
.videoDetailPage .socialSharingButton {
margin-bottom:5px; margin-right:5px;
}
OTHER QUESTIONS
Here is an image of the video list page, you can see the first and last videos are youTube links and show the video image. The second video is a youTube video by embed and so just shows the youTube symbol and the third is an mp4 I uploaded and just shows a green background and this is also all that is seen when playing the video.
Hi, John!
Thanks for the questions, and helping in retrieving the bugs.
So almost all of them has been reported to our QA department to run the tests, however, can you please send us the email with the video that has been converted into the green screen to our email address support@ning.com so we could see what is wrong.
About the padding of the text in the title, I have uploaded and embedded several videos to my test network and haven't spotted such issue, are you sure you don't have any code which is changing this padding on your network as on Mine it fits just perfect.
About the youtube icon, I have reported this like an issue to the QA as I don't think that it suppose to be like that so I have filed the report to the QA team to check the case, meanwhile you can use direct links from youtube to embed to the network.
About the download of the videos from the networks, this information has been passed to the management, if they would decide to implement such feature I'll contact you here or via email, at this point, I haven't found any tasks related to that.
About the storage limits, the limit of 1 Gb is actual for all content uploaded to the network including the videos, however, I can tell for sure that the limits for the packages will be changed but we cannot tell what will be the exact limit for each package as the final decision hasn't been made, but as usual you will be notified about any plan changes here on creators so stay tuned.
Regards,
Ning Team.
Hi Kyryl thanks for the reply.
Thanks for taking the time to reply and report some of these issues, it is appreciated.
John :-)
Hi John!
I'm here back with the news from the management regarding the suggestion to have the ability to restrict the video download from the network. Unfortunately, such option won't be added and included in our development plan.
Apologies for any inconveniences.
Best regards,
Ning Team.
Hi John,
About the video that had only green screen background instead of the video itself. we have run several tests with the different video files in different formats and of different sized and te issue haven't been reproduced, and also as I can see you have removed that video already from your network so I do suppose that the issue was temporary. However, if ti will happen once again please file the ticket and attach the video that you have tried to upload so we could perform the proper testing from our side.
Could you please provide us with the name of the second network where you have checked the padding in the video title field so we could take a look as well and see what's wrong.
Regards,
Ning Team.