DOC-028: How to view videos within InfoSys+

DOC-028: How to view videos within InfoSys+
Kantar Media Spain
08/03/2013
INDEX
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ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................................. 3
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FORMAT REQUIREMENTS ..................................................................................................................... 4
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INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................... 5
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IMAGES OUTPUT .................................................................................................................................. 6
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VIDEO NAMING REQUIREMENTS ......................................................................................................... 7
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TELLING INFOSYS+ WHERE TO LOOK FOR THE VIDEOS ........................................................................ 8
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HISTORY .............................................................................................................................................. 10
1
ABSTRACT
This document will help you to setup InfoSys+ and format and staore your videos in order to be able to
play them from within the application.
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FORMAT REQUIREMENTS
Our integrated TWMPlayer can read both wmv and avi files, but may encounter certain issues with the
latter, depending on the used codecs, therefore we recommend to work exclusively with wmv files.
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INTRODUCTION
In order to view videos, Infosys + offers the possibility of an Images report. Its output shows a graph
with whichever units you’ve chosen and, in header, a video of what was broadcasted on that day, hour
and channel, should the multimedia file exist and being properly named and pointed to within
PathCfg.XML in the installation’s Config folder.
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IMAGES OUTPUT
This output allows you to define the offset (time range) between which you want InfoSys+ to search for
videos in your predefined multimedia folders. The other options of the template will allow you to define
the selected channel(s) and region(s) which is necessary information for InfoSys+ to extract the wanted
images:
Next screenshot shows an example of this output:
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VIDEO NAMING REQUIREMENTS
Videos must be placed in a path of folders named as follow:
ViAAAABBBB, where AAAA is the channel code as reported by the data provider and BBBB is the year
containing this particular video (i.e.: Vi00012013)
ViAAAABBBBCC, where CC is the month of the year (i.e.: Vi0001201302)
ViAAAABBBBCCDD, DD being the day of the month (i.e: Vi000120130228)
The videos themselves must follow this detailed convention:
ViAAAABBBBCCDDEEEEEEFFFFFGGGGHH
ViAAAABBBBCCDD is once again Channel code, Year, Month and Day
EEEEEEE is the start time in HH:MM:SS
FFFFFFF is the end time in HH:MM:SS
GGGG is the region code associated to this video
HH are reserved bytes for future use (typically defaulting to 00)
Here’s a complete example of the paths and video names, with the name detailed below:
..\Vi00012013\Vi0001201302\Vi000120130228\Vi000120130228023000023500000200.wmv
Vi000120130228023000023500000200
0001 --> Channel code
20130228 --> English style date
02:30:00 - 02:35:00 --> Start and end times of the video
0002 --> associated region
00 --> free bytes for future use
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TELLING INFOSYS+ WHERE TO LOOK FOR THE VIDEOS
You can populate PathCfg.XML in the installation’s Config folder, that allows InfoSys+ to know where to
look for the videos, either from the interface, either manually by editing the XML.
a.
From the interface:
You can specify the videos path by channel from the Configuration Panel.
To do so, click on Data in the Setup part, then choose Channels in the new dialog.
Your list of channels will appear under the column TV Channels and you can choose which channel
to edit by clicking on the right arrow, which will trigger a dialog asking to specify the associated
videos path:
You’ll have to fill up the line with the valid route where you choose to set your ViAAAABBBB folder
such as: "\\scg-capwm-01\Video\Vi0001\ADNC0893V0048A\Vi00012010\"
The grayed out part of the Path value is your selected route.
As you may notice in the example, the folder referenced here is the one from 2010. InfoSys+
actually needs only the reference of one year to find out the videos from other years, so you won’t
have to reference each next and previous ViAAAABBBB, like Vi00012011 or Vi00012009.
If later on, you want to modify the selected path, you can do so by choosing an existing channel
with videos and click modify:
b.
Manual edit of PathCfg.XML:
As explained, you can also modify the information directly in the XML, following this editing
method:
<Channels>
<Path
value = "\\scg-capwm-01\Video\Vi0001\ADNC0893V0048A\Vi00012010\"
name = "TVE1"
idChannel = "1"
idChannelPath = "1"/>
</Channels>
The Path name is just for your ease of use and won’t impact the calculations. idChannel and
idChannelPath should be the same as the channel code that defines the AAAA part of ViAAABBBB.
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HISTORY
Version Author
1.0
KMSpain
Date
08/03/2013
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