Submitting streaming content for publication

Submitting streaming content for publication

Document number: 18298

This document assumes you’ve already created your streaming content, as detailed in Eureka! document 18291 — Creating Streaming Content, or that you’ve contracted a vendor to develop content following PeopleSoft standards, as detailed in Streaming Media Standards for Vendors (PDF). See Eureka! document 18288 — Streaming Media Standards for more information. The purpose of this document is to explain how to submit PeopleSoft streaming content properly to the streaming media publisher for validation and posting to the streaming server.

Fill out the Windows Media Content Publishing form (http://pshmms01.peoplesoft.com/contentspub/wmspubinfo.asp).

All fields are required.
Windows Media File Name should be the root name. For example, if you’ve created myfile.wmv and myfileLow.wmv (according to standards in Eureka! document 18288 — Streaming Media Standards), you would enter “myfile.wmv” in this field. You’ll select the specific file(s) later.

Note: The filenames of both your original file on your PC and your new file must not have any spaces in them or the system will fail. You must also include the extension (.wmv or .wma) in the new file name on the form.

Click the Submit button.

You’ll see a confirmation message and be redirected to the next screen in 10 seconds if done correctly. If done incorrectly, or if this file name already exists in the directory, you’ll get an error message. If a file with the same name already exists, change the name (it will be renamed by the publisher according to a standardized naming convention and is not critical at this point).

Select your file(s) from your local drive. Once you’re directed to the selection window, browse for the low-bandwidth version of your file and the high, if it exists.

Note: All content should have a low-bandwidth version to ensure maximum reach, as explained in Eureka! document 18288 — Streaming Media Standards.

Click the Upload button. Depending on the size of your files, this could be a long process depending on the size of the file(s) and your connection speed. When it’s finished uploading the file(s) to the “drop” directory, you’ll see a window that says it successfully uploaded your content to the server.

You’re finished. Corporate Communications will be automatically notified of the new files, and by 5:00 p.m. Pacific time, the media publisher will:

Verify your submittal.
Rename your file(s) according to standards.
Create the URL link for Planet according to standards.
Send the URL to your Planet community manager of the URL.

At this point, your publisher is responsible for putting the link on the appropriate site in Planet and informing you of the location (or the location you agreed on together).

Important: Once the Corporate Communications media publisher posts your file to the publishing directory, it will take 24 hours for the server to copy the file to all the world-wide streaming servers. This means that you should not publish the Planet link (or at least advertise it) for 24 hours (i.e., until 5:00 p.m. PST the next day) unless you've set up special arrangements with Corporate Communications or some remote users might get the notification before the file actually exists on their local server. Your community manager can explain this further.