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Introduction to Adobe Connect: Playing Video
There are two ways to play video inside your Adobe Connect room.
1. Stream a Flash (FLV) or MP4 video through the Share
Document feature in a Share Pod.
Connect uses Flash as its platform. Because of this you can
stream flash-based video files, or FLV files, using the Share
Pod inside your Adobe Connect room.
If you have an FLV or MP4 video or you are able to use a video
converter tool to convert your video to FLV or MP4, you can
load this into your room.
Step 1: From the Share Pod options in the dropdown menu of your Share Pod, select Share
Document.
Step 2: From here select Browse My Computer and select the FLV or MP4 file from your
computer.
Step 3. Once the video has loaded you can start and stop the video as well as adjust the volume.
You can also use the draw and pointer buttons to mark the video up.
You will want to make sure to remove any drawings you make as they will not
automatically disappear when you press play. To do this you can either use the
Selection (1) tool to select the item you wish to remove and then the Delete
Selection (2) tool to remove it or you can select the Undo (3) arrow.
You will also notice that there is a progress bar at the bottom which will speed up
playback on that attendee’s computers. If you know that you have attendees with
lower bandwidth it’s a good idea to start and then pause the video allowing it to
finish buffering before you press play. This will prevent play back problems for
attendees.
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Use the SaveFrom.net website to download a YouTube video and then upload it into your
room.
Enter the URL of the YouTube video you would like to download and click the arrow to begin.
Once the site has processed the YouTube video, select the MP4 360p option from the Download
dropdown to begin downloading the file for this video.
Now that you have the file downloaded, go back to your meeting room and upload this video
to your Share Pod using the Share Document option.
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