| What do the PlaceWare Wrapper files do? |
The PlaceWare Replay Wrapper provides the following functionality:
- Opens the Media Player at the correct size
- Opens the Media Player in an interactive Replay console
- Creates and displays the list slide titles facilitating random access of the recording
- Displays the presentation and presenter's name
- Enables Web slides to open as a separate window so the viewer can use them as forms, assessments, or surveys during the viewing of a recorded presentation
- Provides the ability to substitute logos to reflect your company's name, to co-brand the specific recording, or to add another small visual graphic to the downloaded playback
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| How do I use the PlaceWare Replay Wrapper? |
The PlaceWare Replay Wrapper is a collection of html,
JavaScript and graphics files that complement a Replay recording file.
For your convenience, the files that makeup the Replay Wrapper have been
zipped
into a single file. Click the download PlaceWare Replay Wrapper link to
download the zip file containing the PlaceWare Replay Wrapper. There are
a total of
29 files in the zip file. For each recording, you'll need the PlaceWare
Replay Wrapper files and the corresponding PlaceWare Replay wmv file.
Extract the files contained in the zip file and save them to a local or network directory. This set will become the base set of files you'll use whenever you want to serve a PlaceWare Replay recording.
Installation Instructions
The PlaceWare Replay Wrapper is a collection of html, JavaScript and graphics
files that complement a Replay recording file. For your convenience, the
files that makeup the Replay Wrapper have been zipped into a single file.
There
are a total of 29 files zipped in the PlaceWareWrapper.zip file. For each
recording, you'll need the PlaceWare Replay Wrapper files and the corresponding
PlaceWare
Replay wmv file.
To start, create a directory (folder) that will contain the Replay Wrapper files and the PlaceWare Replay file. Extract the zipped Wrapper files and save them to the directory. Next, download the PlaceWare Replay file and store it in the same directory. The PlaceWare Replay file is named placeware.wmv. The Wrapper files references this name, so do not change it. The directory should now contain the unzipped Wrapper files and one Replay file named placeware.wmv. To view the Replay in the Wrapper, point your browser to the index.htm file.
This collection of files can either be served by a file server, web server,
media server or on a CD. If you are serving the Replay over an intranet
or the Internet, it is best servered with a web server or a combination of
web
server and media server. All of the files can be served using a standard
web server such as Apache or IIS. The Replay file (placeware.wmv) is a streamable
format and you can greatly improve the end user's experience by using Microsoft's
Media Server to deliver the placeware.wmv file. Use a web server to serve
the Wrapper files and Microsoft's Media Server to serve the Replay file.
Follow
the configuration instructions for your web server and Microsoft's Media
server to setup the correct paths and directory permissions.
If you wish to serve more than one Replay recording, create a directory
for each recording. Place each Replay file in its own directory, accompanied
by all 29 Wrapper files. To provide access to the user, create a web page
that provides links to each of the index.htm file in each Replay recording's
directory.
You can add a company logo or another image to the PlaceWare Replay Wrapper. The images are as follows:
- owner-brand.gif. This is the main logo at the upper left of the PlaceWare
Replay Wrapper window. Replace this image with your company logo. Be
sure to name the file exactly the same (upper-left-brand.gif). The
size of the
logo should be 188 pixels wide by 30 pixels high.
- small-brand.gif. This file is used only when viewers are watching a PlaceWare
Replay using an 800x600 display setting. Due to the lack of space,
this logo is limited to approximately 67 pixels wide by 15 pixels high.
- Do not remove the Powered by PlaceWare logo (basic-brand.gif). The Powered
by PlaceWare logo must appear in the playback window.
If you wish to substitute your company logo or other images for the owner-brand.gif
and small-brand.gif, be sure to make them the same size as the one provided
in the PlaceWareWrapper.zip file and keep the file names the same as the
gif files you are replacing.
The body.js file contains the variable that defines the background color
of the Wrapper page. The JavaScript line is var defFontBgColor = "#CCCCCC";.
You can replace the "#CCCCCC" with any browser safe color.
PlaceWare makes the Replay Wrapper utility available for your convenience. PlaceWare does not make any assurances with regards to the accuracy of the results or output that derives from such use of the utility.
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