Use the Media Web Part in SharePoint Server
You use the Media web part to either display
a video or play an audio file in a page. You can find the Media web
part under the Media and Content category in the web part selection
pane. After you add the Media web part to a page, the web part is shown
with an empty space in it, as shown in Figure 3.
FIGURE 3 An empty media web part.
Note
This web part uses Silverlight to play the
audio and video and also to configure itself. If you don’t have
Silverlight installed, the link to configure might not work.
When you click on the
web part the Media ribbon appears. On this ribbon, you can select the
media file by opening the drop-down menu under the Change Media button
and set different options for the media itself, such as whether it
should start automatically and how it should look.
Selecting a media file (audio or video) is the same as selecting an image.
Tip
Media files, especially video files, are
often big. You should take note of the size of a file before uploading
it. If it is bigger than the size allowed by the system administrator,
SharePoint prevents you from uploading it. If you need to be able to
upload a large file and are unable to, you should contact your site
administrator and ask for a bigger size quota.
When a file is selected, the web part allows
users to click Play. Or, if you chose the option to start the media
automatically in the Options ribbon (see Figure 4), it starts playing the file each time the page opens.
FIGURE 4 The Media web part’s Media ribbon.
