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Managing and playing videos

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Managing and playing videos

The SharePoint Asset Library is a vastly improved feature in SharePoint 2013. There are also some new ways that you get to work with both rich media and video here in 2013. And the two of those come together in some really powerful ways. So, I'm looking at a library called Sport Assets in my Inside Sports SharePoint site. Let me show you first how I created this. All I did was go to Site Contents, and added a new app, and the new app is of the Asset Library type. So, here we are in our Asset Library, and it has images. We're seeing thumbnails now. We could take a look at in All Assets view; really similar. And these are all videos. So, if I click on a video, what we'd like to have happen and what's actually going to happen are two different things, and I'll talk to you a bit about why. When I click, I am actually taken to a custom page for this particular video, and that's amazing and wonderful. The other thing I have is the opportunity to install Microsoft Silverlight. That's not so…

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