Table Of Contents
Watching Videos
Working with Playlists
About the Featured Playlist Area
Watching Videos in the Featured Playlist
Watching Videos in Your Personal Playlist
Adding Videos to Your Personal Playlist
Removing Videos from Your Personal Playlist
Working with the Program Guide
About the Program Guide Area
Using the Program Guide
Searching for a Video
About the Search Area
Using the Search Feature
Watching Videos
Revised: June 26, 2008, OL-15765-01
This chapter includes the following sections:
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Working with Playlists
•Working with the Program Guide
•Searching for a Video
Tip During periods of peak access, you may experience a slight delay before the Video Portal launches, and if the delay exceeds 10 seconds, a blank web page will display. Refresh your web browser to request access to the Video Portal again.
Working with Playlists
Playlists are collections of videos that you can watch one at a time or together in sequence. There are two playlist types:
•Featured Playlist tab—Content managers for your Video Portal choose which videos to include in the featured playlist.
•Personal Playlist tab—You choose which videos to include in your personal playlist.
This section includes the following topics:
•About the Featured Playlist Area
•Watching Videos in the Featured Playlist
•Watching Videos in Your Personal Playlist
•Adding Videos to Your Personal Playlist
•Removing Videos from Your Personal Playlist
About the Featured Playlist Area
Figure 3-1 provides information about what you see in the Playlist Area.
Figure 3-1 Playlist Navigation Area
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Video Info link
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Preview panel
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Playlists tab
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Add to My Playlist or Remove from My Playlist button
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Featured Playlist tab
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Play Video button
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My Playlist tab
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Interstitial or video playback area
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Watching Videos in the Featured Playlist
To select and watch videos in the featured playlist, complete the following steps, as needed:
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Do This
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See the list of featured videos
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Click Playlists, and then click Featured Playlist.
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Watch a video
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Do either of the following:
•Double-click a video title in the list.
•Click a video title one time in the list, and when the preview panel expands under the navigation area, click Play Video.
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Watching Videos in Your Personal Playlist
To select and watch videos in your personal playlist, complete the following steps, as needed:
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Do This
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See your personal list of videos
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Click Playlists, and then click My Playlist.
Note If you have not added any videos to your playlist, it will be empty. Otherwise, the videos are sorted in chronological order, according to when you added them.
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Watch a video
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Do either of the following:
•Double-click a video title in the list.
•Click a video title one time in the list, and when the preview panel expands under the navigation area, click Play Video.
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Adding Videos to Your Personal Playlist
To add videos to your personal playlist, complete the following steps, as needed:
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Do This
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Add a video that you are playing
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1. Click Video Info.
2. In the video overview, click Add to My Playlist.
3. Click OK, or click Cancel.
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Add a video that an interstitial is displaying
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1. Click the Add to My Playlist button under the interstitial.
2. Click OK, or click Cancel.
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Add a video that displays in one of the following areas:
•A featured playlist
•The video selection list in a program guide
•A list of results under the Search tab
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1. Click the title of a video.
2. Under the preview panel, click Add to My Playlist.
3. Click OK, or click Cancel.
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Removing Videos from Your Personal Playlist
To remove videos that you added to your personal playlist, complete the following steps, as needed:
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Do This
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Remove a video that you are playing
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1. Click Video Info.
2. In the video overview, click Remove from My Playlist.
3. Click OK, or click Cancel.
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Remove a video that an interstitial is displaying
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1. Click the Remove from My Playlist button under the interstitial.
2. Click OK, or click Cancel.
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Remove a video that displays in one of the following areas:
•A featured playlist
•The video selection list in a program guide
•A list of results under the Search tab
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1. Click the title of a video.
2. Under the preview panel, click Remove from My Playlist.
3. Click OK, or click Cancel.
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Working with the Program Guide
This section includes the following topics:
•About the Program Guide Area
•Using the Program Guide
About the Program Guide Area
Figure 3-2 provides information about what you see in the Program Guide area.
Figure 3-2 Program Guide Area
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Program Guide tab
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Video list
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Preview panel
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Program list
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Add to My Playlist or Remove from My Playlist button
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Category list
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Play Video button
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Using the Program Guide
The program guide helps you to pinpoint the videos that interest you most. You start in a broad category, narrow your selection to a program, and then select the video to watch.
Step 1 Click the Program Guide tab, and then click Select a Category.
The category menu expands to show the complete list of available categories.
Step 2 Click a category in the list to see the complete list of programs that it contains.
Step 3 Click Select a Program.
The selection area expands to show the complete list of programs in the category you selected.
Step 4 Click a program in the list to see the complete list of videos that it contains.
Step 5 To watch a video, do either of the following:
•Double-click a video title in the list.
•Click a video title one time in the list, and when the preview panel expands under the navigation area, click Play Video.
Searching for a Video
This section includes the following topics:
•About the Search Area
•Using the Search Feature
About the Search Area
Figure 3-3 provides information about what you see in the Search area.
Figure 3-3 Search Area
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Search tab
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Preview panel
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Magnifying glass icon
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Add to My Playlist or Remove from My Playlist button
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Search results area
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Play Video button
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Using the Search Feature
Keyword-based searches are an efficient way to find videos on your Video Portal.
Before You Begin
•To return any useful matches, the keywords that you enter must be the same ones that your Video Portal administrators and content managers used to describe a video and be in English.
•You cannot search for videos that include non-English characters in titles and descriptions.
•Content managers can set access controls for videos. If you do not have permission to see a video, that video will not display in your search results.
Step 1 Click the Search tab.
Step 2 Enter one or more keywords in the field.
Step 3 Click the magnifying glass icon, or press Enter.
A list of matching videos appears as a list under the keyword field.
Step 4 To watch a video, do either of the following:
•Double-click a video title in the list.
•Click a video title one time in the list, and when the preview panel expands under the navigation area, click Play Video.
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